This Week in the PSC (10.29.13): Support Campus Equity Week
Support Campus Equity Week It’s Campus Equity Week, a time to renew our commitment to improving the working conditions of adjunct faculty, organize for action and build solidarity among our colleagues. PSC is marking Campus Equity Week this week and next week by sharing some of the job-insecurity testimony adjuncts…
This Week in the PSC (10.22.13):Audit of Dependent Heath Coverage Deadline Extended to Nov. 4
Audit of Dependent Heath Coverage Deadline Extended to November 4 PSC bargaining unit members and retirees under 80 years of age who have dependents covered by their City health insurance plan have been receiving notices from the City over the past few weeks about the Audit of Dependent Benefits Eligibility.…
This Week in the PSC (10.15.13): Collecting Adjunct's Job-Insecurity Stories
Adjuncts: Share Your Job-Insecurity Story! Job security for adjuncts is a priority demand for the PSC in the current round of collective bargaining for a new contract. To support the union's negotiations with CUNY management about this issue, PSC is collecting stories about how job insecurity personally affects adjuncts at…
This Week in the PSC (10.08.13): Register to Vote and Encourage Your Students to Register Before the Fri. Oct. 11 Deadline
Register to Vote and Encourage Your Students to Register Before the Fri. Oct. 11 Deadline If you or your students have not registered to vote, this is your last week to register in time to vote in the Nov. 5 General Election. Completed voter registration forms must be postmarked by…
This Week in the PSC (08.28.13): Volunteer to Help Get Out The Vote
Volunteer to Help Get Out the Vote PSC members are volunteering to help elect Bill de Blasio as mayor and the union’s other endorsed candidates. This election is a real chance to have a progressive mayor and a City Council who will fight for good jobs, better schools, accessible public…
This Week in the PSC (08.19.13): PSC Calls for an Unbiased Review of Pathways
PSC Calls for an Unbiased Review of Pathways The June 2011 Board of Trustees resolution that established Pathways mandates annual reviews of all Pathways policies and processes, beginning in 2013. The resolution is silent on who will conduct the review and how it will be conducted. In An Open Letter…
This Week in the PSC (07.23.13): RSVP for the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington
Realize the Dream. RSVP for the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington Civil rights, faith-based and community groups and labor unions, including the PSC, are mobilizing to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the occasion of Martin Luther King’s "I Have…
This Week in the PSC (07.09.13): Outrage over Petraeus scandal grows; lawmakers call for action & launch petition
Mid-July through August, the email newsletter will be issued every other week. Outrage over CUNY’s Decision to Pay David Petraeus $150,000 for One Course The news (ABC, Gawker, Salon) of CUNY’s plan to pay disgraced former CIA Director David Petraeus $150,000 to teach one seminar per semester next year has…
This Week in the PSC (06.26.13): PSC Endorses Bill de Blasio for Mayor
This Week in the PSC will be on hiatus for the next two weeks. Mid-July through August, the email newsletter will be issued every other week. PSC Endorses Bill de Blasio for Mayor The union has endorsed Bill de Blasio in the Democratic primary for Mayor of New York City…
This Week in the PSC (06.18.13): AAUP Resolutions on Pathways and Shared Governance
AAUP Resolutions on Pathways and Shared Governance The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) passed two important resolutions at its national meeting held this past weekend. The first resolution acknowledges the overwhelming vote of No Confidence in Pathways, and calls on the CUNY Trustees to repeal the Pathways resolution and…
