Bargaining Update 23 | Contract Now Demonstration, 100 Wall St.
Contract Now Demonstration at 100 Wall Street Friday, June 28, 9:00-10:00 AM Join a morning demonstration outside Board of Trustees Chair Bill Thompson’s Wall Street Investment Bank. We'll hold Thompson accountable for CUNY’s attacks on job security and governance, and make sure he knows that we expect him to tell…
Bargaining Updates 21-22 | Summer Campaigns
CUNY management remains obstinate about job security, governance, and fair pay. So, bargaining and our pressure campaign must intensify. The Chancellor and the Trustees will get no break while 30,000 faculty and staff have an expired contract! Make fighting for a Fair Contract for A People’s CUNY part of your…
Bargaining Update 20 | Win at Arbitration
The union has been vindicated in a grievance related to faculty promotions and governance dating back to 2019. Ruth Moscovitch, of the American Arbitration Association, ruled that LaGuardia Community College violated the PSC-CUNY Contract and the CUNY Bylaws when it changed the word “Summary” to the word “Leadership” under the…
Bargaining Update 19 | 3 NYC Budget Actions
New York City’s budget deadline is a month away. The PSC’s Legislation Committee is organizing to shore up our champions in the City Council, restore the Mayor’s cuts to community colleges, and win new targeted investments for our students and community colleges. Here’s how to help: Write Your NYC Council Member…
No Business As Usual for CUNY | Bargaining Updates
Union Grievance Wins $1.7 Million for CUNY Adjuncts and Instructional Staff More than 4,300 adjuncts and other instructional staff represented by the PSC will receive a combined payout of more than $1.7 million dollars under the terms of a new settlement agreement signed by President Davis on Wednesday, May 22.…
Actions at CUNY Central
National and State Labor Leaders Join Faculty and Staff at Protest to Demand ‘Hands Off CUNY Job Security!’ More than 100 leaders and activists representing 21 NYSUT locals and PSC members joined together on Thursday, May 2nd outside CUNY’s Midtown headquarters to demand that management back away from their attacks…
Bargaining Updates 15 & 16 | Budget Updates
Bargaining Updates 15 and 16 At the April 11th session, the PSC responded to the insufficiencies and problems with management’s comprehensive proposal, which works within the bounds set by other state and city unions in this bargaining round. President James Davis spoke to the problems with this approach. The proposed…
New Bargaining Update | Call the Governor!
Bargaining Updates 13 and 14 The PSC finished presenting our initial demands during the March 22nd and 27th sessions, and on the 27th management put forward a comprehensive offer, including across-the-board raises. CUNY’s salary proposal approximates what other City and State unions received in this round and includes retroactive…
Testify about Job Security, April 1 | State & City Budget Advocacy
CUNY Board of Trustees Brooklyn Borough Hearing and Pre-Hearing SpeakOut 3:30 Demonstration | 4:30 Hearing PSC members are mobilizing to testify about management's attack on adjunct job security and their proposed amendments to the CUNY Bylaws at the Brooklyn Borough Hearing of the CUNY Board of Trustees on Monday, April…
Bargaining Update 12 | Forum on NY’s Anti-Strike Taylor Law
At the February 29th bargaining session, PSC marked one year working on an expired contract by introducing eleven new proposals that would make our university stronger and build on progress in previous rounds. 104 members were present to observe the session while hundreds more took part in simultaneous contract actions…
