CUNY at the Council | Chapter Elections | Rent Freeze Hearings

PSC members with moderate incomes may be eligible for a subsidized child care benefit that is provided through the Child Care Facilitated Enrollment Scholarship Program. This funding can be used to help pay for various types of child care providers and can save parents thousands of dollars per year per child.

The scholarship program, developed by New York Union Child Care Coalition, a committee of our union affiliate, the NYC Central Labor Council (NYCLC), aims to make quality child care more affordable for families in New York City with children up to 13 years of age. It provides assistance to families not eligible for other types of child care assistance including children whose immigration status makes them ineligible for federally-funded subsidized child care, episodic workers, and working parents with incomes above the current subsidy eligibility thresholds.

Parents must be working, live in New York City, and meet income restrictions (e.g. under $132,000 for a family of four).

To learn more about the scholarship, you can read this fact sheet and fill out a pre-screening form. PSC members can also attend an online information session hosted by the PSC at 6PM, Monday, June 22nd. Register here for the Zoom meeting.

On May 11, the Elections Committee certified the results of the 2026 chapter elections held in April. The Delegate Assembly heard the committee’s report on May 14th. Thirteen chapters elected chapter officers, delegates, and alternates to the union’s Delegate Assembly. Ten elected representatives to the PSC-CUNY Welfare Fund Advisory Council.

The term of office for those who are newly elected began on May 26. The elections were all uncontested. Click here for detailed results. The chapters page of the PSC website has been updated with names and emails for the newly elected chapter officers.

The Trump administration is escalating its war on universities, academic workers, and free speech with a proposed policy subjecting all federal grantmaking to political litmus tests. This extreme, repressive measure will wreak havoc on the work of scientists and other researchers who rely on federal funding, and will make residents of the US sicker and more vulnerable.

Join our union’s Defending Research Working Group to get involved in upcoming fights to demand that federal research funding be free of political interference and to defend the essential work of CUNY researchers across the disciplines.

Monday, June 8th, Hostos Main Theater, 5-8 PM
Thursday, June 11, City Tech, The Theater, 7-10PM

Sign up here to let us know you will attend one of the CUNY Rent Guidelines Board hearings as part of a visible, powerful PSC contingent. We’ll rally before the hearings with tenant’s rights groups and then help pack the room. You can sign up to be part of the demonstration AND sign up to testify for up to two minutes. Fill out the PSC webform to RSVP for the union action and then, if you wish to testify, fill out the Rent Guidelines Board registration as well. It’s linked here and in the confirmation message for the union’s RSVP.

If you have been through the PSC’s online court support training, please join with fellow union members to bear witness and support immigrants who are called to the courts at 26 Federal Plaza. Spanish speakers are especially helpful. Meet any Friday at Pret, 7:30 AM at 319 Broadway, across the street from 26 Federal Plaza. The next Zoom training for PSC court support is Wednesday, June 10 at 6:30PM. Register here for the Zoom meeting link.

The Executive Council of the PSC has released a statement condemning the ongoing U.S. aggression toward Cuba and opposing the Trump administration’s deepening of the embargo of Cuba that has persisted for more than 60 years. Click here to read the statement, in which our union stands “with the people of Cuba in defense of their sovereignty and their right to determine their own future free from U.S. violence and intervention.”

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