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Bargaining Updates 29 and 30 | Union Week Fall ‘24

Sep 13, 2024

Bargaining Updates 29 and 30

Bargaining Update 29
At the bargaining session on August 27th, the PSC sought to extend a pilot agreement requiring college presidents to respond within 120 days when a full-time faculty member appeals a denial of promotion or tenure. We provided additional details about a union demand to improve our current Paid Parental Leave agreement and rejected a management proposal to penalize employees who quit without notice. The parties dug in to the details of a PSC proposal for reassigned time for research for Associate Professors. And finally, conversation continued from previous sessions about the numbers of teaching adjuncts who might qualify for future multi-year appointments. CUNY’s projections do not jibe with the PSC’s analysis of what has actually happened at the colleges. Management’s insistence on flexibility remains a barrier to achieving much needed stability for adjuncts, the units who hire them, and students. Read the full update.

Bargaining Update 30
The first bargaining session of the fall semester took place on September 11 at CUNY Central. CUNY management opened the session with modifications to counter proposals addressing reassigned time for research for post-tenure faculty, salary increases with promotion or reclassification, and promotion for CLTs. Management also offered a slight modification to the August 21 proposal to include SEEK and College Discovery directors in the bargaining unit in exchange for removing from the unit several titles in the office of the Labor Designee and college Human Resources office. The PSC opposes depriving any currently covered employee of union representation.

The PSC presented an extensive counter to CUNY management’s proposal on Educational Technology and Distance Learning. President Davis then challenged the data analysis that CUNY management presented at the prior session about the number of teaching adjuncts likely to qualify in future years for a multi-year appointment if the Appendix E criteria were to remain unchanged. Read the full update.

 

Observe Contract Bargaining

All dues-paying members are welcome to observe a bargaining session, after they have attended the online orientation. Your next opportunities to attend an orientation are:

Members who have attended an orientation will be invited to observe bargaining on Thursday, September 19th. All members are needed during Union Week at the pre-bargaining Contract Now! Informational Picket outside CUNY Central at 12:00 PM Tuesday, September 24.

 

Demanding On-Time Pay and Job Security for Adjuncts

During a break in contract negotiations this past Wednesday, September 11, PSC bargaining team members and observers delivered a petition to the office of CUNY Chancellor Félix Matos Rodríguez. The petition, signed by 600 PSC members, demands on-time pay & job security for CUNY adjuncts. On-time pay should be an absolute given, but more than140 adjuncts at Hunter College alone were paid late this fall. Multi-year appointments for adjuncts remains a critical, unresolved, subject of bargaining. Watch video of President James Davis and Vice President for Part-time Personnel Lynne Turner during the petition delivery on the PSC Instagram.

 

Union Week Fall ’24

Union Week, Monday, September, 23 – Friday, September 27, will be an all-out, CUNY-wide push to demand a Contract for #APeoplesCUNY and support union organizing to protect our rights and the environment. Make a plan to be part of the action.

 

    • All Week, September 23-27 – Pickup Signs and Buttons
      Contact your PSC chapter chair or stop at a PSC table organized by your campus chapter to pick up a Union Proud button and a Contract for #APeoplesCUNY sign for your office door/workspace.

 

 

    • Tuesday, September 24, 12:00-1:30 PM – Contract Now!
      Informational Picket – CUNY Central, 205 E. 42nd Street
      CUNY management still refuses to offer fair pay increases or appropriate job security to PSC/CUNY members, even after more than a year of bargaining. The CUNY community and people of New York need to know about management’s failure to make us the offer we deserve. Sign up here to walk in a lunch-hour Contract Now! informational picket line before the September 24th bargaining session at CUNY Central. Hit the button to let us know you will be there to show CUNY we demand a better offer! RSVP: PICKET LINE 9/24

 

    • Tuesday, September 24 – Wear #Red4HigherEd
      Wear #Red4HigherEd to work on Tuesday, September 24th, and turn out in your union red to the PSC’s lunch-time pre-bargaining rally at CUNY Central or to either of the Decarbonize CUNY events happening that day. Share your photos online with the #Red4HigherEd hashtag. Hit the button to tell us you will wear red. I WILL WEAR RED 9/24

 

    • Wednesday, September 25, 6:00-8:00PM
      New Member Meet-Up at the Union Hall
      New faculty and staff: come join an in-person orientation to your union and union organizing hosted by the PSC’s One-on-One Organizing Committee the evening of Wednesday, September 25th. RSVP to learn about our union, meet new people, get some PSC swag, and have fun! RSVP: MEET-UP

 

    • Thursday, September 26 – Take the PSC’s Brightspace Survey
      Complete the PSC survey about your experience learning Brightspace right now, then please support our extra effort during Union Week to increase participation in the survey. The union believes that CUNY has violated our contract by failing to provide compensation for many PSC members’ Brightspace training. We argue in a recently filed grievance that members who have been spending time to train themselves in the new learning management system, as well as to convert their courses to Brightspace, should be compensated. Taking the survey will assist us in developing this grievance. TAKE SURVEY

Attend A Decarbonize CUNY Town Hall

Tuesday, September 17,
Wednesday, September 24 – Thursday, September 26

The next Decarbonize CUNY town hall is Tuesday, September 17, 1:40 PM at John Jay College. Then there will be five town halls in four boroughs during Union Week. Click here to find an event near you and for more information on the campaign to decarbonize CUNY and make our energy system public and sustainable.

 

Get Out The Vote

Elect Harris/Walz and Pro-CUNY Candidates

The PSC’s Get-Out-The-Vote team is excited after this week’s debate and is working to turn out as many pro worker, pro democracy votes as possible in the presidential election and critical down-ballot races. Early voting in New York starts in 42 days! Don’t miss a chance to do your part.

Sign up now for PSC organized phone banks to be held on Zoom Tuesdays at 6PM with your cell or home phone:

Sign up here to attend the October 15 PSC Legislation Committee Meeting and phonebank starting at 6:30PM. The committee will meet on Zoom to plan more get-out-the-vote actions and make calls.

Sign up here for in-person phone banks organized by NYSUT to win Congressional seats on Long Island. These tight races might decide control of the House of Representatives!

Fill out our PSC Election Team sign-up form so we can connect you to a wide range of volunteer opportunities ranging from labor walks in NYC to bus trips out of state to support the Presidential ticket.

 

Published: September 13, 2024

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