This Week in the PSC (06.24.16): Delegate Assembly Recommends Contract Agreement for Ratification
Delegate Assembly Recommends Contract Agreement for Ratification After a spirited debate, the Delegate Assembly voted last night to submit the tentative contract agreement to the PSC membership for a ratification vote. The vote to recommend ratification of the new contract passed by an overwhelming majority of 111 in favor to…
This Week in the PSC (06.08.16): Albany Must Pass the MOE ASAP
PSC in the News (June) Daily News: Choking CUNY has consequences Chronicle of Higher Education (Subscribers Only): The Travesty of Starving Our Best Public Universities Jacobin Magazine: Degrees of Austerity: Inside the budget crisis affecting the largest urban university in the United States and the half million students it serves.…
This Week in the PSC (05.24.16): Daily News Editorial on Contract
The Daily News ran an editorial this weekend: Time for a CUNY contract: Professors must ditch their strike threat, and Gov. Cuomo must step up. It’s over-the-top and takes swipes at the union and others, but it calls on the governor to help fund the contract. It is exceedingly rare…
This Week in the PSC (05.17.16): News Coverage of the 92% Yes Vote
In the News (May 8-16) The Chief-Leader (Pay Wall): Members Give CUNY Faculty Union OK To Strike, Maybe in Fall Capitol Tonight (Video): CUNY Union Approves Possibility of a Strike Times Ledger: CUNY faculty vote to authorize strike NY Times: CUNY Union Votes to Allow Strike if Contract Deal Is Not…
This Week in the PSC (04.26.16): Show Your Support for the Strike Authorization
Show Your Support for the Strike Authorization The PSC’s strike authorization vote is scheduled for May 2-11. Click here to learn more about how to vote by mail, by phone or online. Send your reason for voting yes to [email protected], or share it yourself with the hashtag #CUNYStrikeAuth. You can…
This Week in the PSC (04.18.16): Pledge to Vote Yes
Strike Authorization Vote May 2-11 Pledge to Vote Yes Last week President Bowen sent a message to members describing the union’s plan for reaching an acceptable contract settlement. In the message, she announced the dates of the PSC’s strike authorization vote (May 2-11) and urged members to “give the union…
This Week in the PSC (04.11.16): NYT Editorial
In the News: April 11 In an editorial published today, the New York Times addresses rumors of a planned CUNY-SUNY merger, which surfaced during the State budget negotiations. The editorial, Don’t Dilute CUNY’s Urban Mission, notes that the merger idea reappeared this year in news reports related to the proposal…
This Week in the PSC (04.06.16): State Budget Response and Analysis
State Budget Response and Analysis The State budget passed last week without a half-billion dollar shift in CUNY funding from the State to the City, but also without funding for PSC members’ back pay and without funding to offset the tuition freeze. In her message to members, President Bowen said…
This Week in the PSC (03.16.16): CUNY Writers Against Austerity
CUNY Writers Against Austerity A reading In Defense of CUNY More than fifty writers of poetry and fiction will take a stand against the continued fiscal starvation of CUNY this Sunday, March 20 from 4-7 p.m. at Cooper Union's Great Hall (7 East 7th Street). It will be the largest…
This Week in the PSC (03.08.16): #CUNYrising Rally, March and Meeting
#CUNYrising Rally, March and Meeting—Thurs., Mar. 10, 5 PM New Yorkers are mobilizing to defend their university. A coalition of 25 community, student, religious, and labor groups has been forming in response to the proposed cuts to CUNY, the planned tuition increase, and the failure to resolve CUNY contracts. The…
