New Yorkers Flood 26 Federal Plaza Demanding ICE Out of NY
Thousands Flood 26 Federal Plaza Demanding ICE Accountability, Rejecting Federal Troop Presence, Calling on Electeds to Protect Immigrant Communities Thousands of New Yorkers displayed a powerful message of resistance to Trump’s regime of mass deportation at a protest yesterday, September 25th in Lower Manhattan. Hundreds of PSC members joined elected…
What’s Happening to Our Healthcare?
New York City and Municipal Labor Committee (MLC) negotiators have proposed a replacement for the Emblem (GHI) - Anthem (Blue Cross) health benefits plan that currently covers medical and hospital services for about 70% of CUNY active employees (full-time and insured adjuncts and part-timers) and pre-65 retirees and their dependents.…
Union-wide Zoom Forum on Proposed New Health Plan | NYers Against ICE Protest
Wednesday, September 17th, 5PM Union-wide Zoom Forum on Proposed New Health Plan In last week’s newsletter, President James Davis updated members on the proposed replacement for the current comprehensive health benefits plan, Emblem GHI, which enrolls roughly ¾ of the city’s active employees and pre-65 retirees and their dependents –…
NYC Labor Day Parade Tomorrow | Proposed Emblem GHI Replacement
The annual New York City Labor Day Parade will be held TOMORROW, Saturday, September 6. PSC members will march to resist the Trump Administration’s attacks on our civil liberties, institutions and democracy. We’ll have signs, banners, bagels and coffee. Be there and bring your friends and family. One of the…
Endorsements, Immigrant Solidarity, Adjunct Pay Dates
For the Fall 2025 semester, teaching adjuncts are scheduled to be paid on eight successive adjunct pay dates. At the senior colleges, the first pay date is Thursday, September 4 and the last pay date will be Thursday, December 11. At most community colleges, the first pay date will be…
Retroactive Pay | 150+ Rally at Brooklyn College
Wage increases up to the April 1, 2024 level began to appear in the August 1st paychecks for all eligible employees paid by the city. Retroactive pay covering the period beginning March 1, 2023, will arrive for eligible members paid by the city on August 15. For all eligible employees…
Ratification Bonus for Part-Timers | Rally & Letter to Reinstate the Fired Four
The Brooklyn College PSC chapter has called a rally this Thursday, July 31st at 4 PM outside the Bedford Gates of Brooklyn College to demand the reinstatement of the fired CUNY faculty. The rally will call on Brooklyn College President Michelle Anderson and Chancellor Matos Rodríguez to stop the repression,…
MAGA’s Cynical Attack on Higher Education | Upcoming Bonuses and Retroactive Paychecks
Deadlines to Increase Retirement Withholdings Ratification bonuses for eligible part-time employees and retroactive pay and wage increases for all eligible employees will be implemented over the next four weeks. Then the next scheduled raises will then come in September. Here is the schedule: July 24: Pro-rated ratification bonus for eligible…
PSC Condemns Retaliatory Firing of CUNY Faculty | Retro for Part-Timers
CUNY management’s initial guidance on eligibility for retroactive pay required part-time employees to have been on payroll on January 13, 2025, the official contract ratification date. The PSC pointed out that this policy was unfair and inconsistent with our agreement because it effectively excluded from eligibility any part-timer who worked…
Tell your Reps in D.C. to Reject the Budget Reconciliation Bill
Congress is finalizing an extreme, harmful federal budget bill that should concern all PSC members. It cuts healthcare and food assistance, makes higher education more expensive, and punishes students, patients and working families to ensure the rich get even richer. Our national affiliate, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), is…
