Vote Early | Who is Marc Rowan? Webinar

Emblem and United Healthcare are hosting a series of webinars for NYC employees, including CUNY faculty and staff, to discuss the new health insurance plan, the New York City Employee PPO Plan (NYCE PPO), which will replace the current comprehensive benefits plan administered by Emblem/GHI and Anthem/Blue Cross.

Scroll down to the Virtual Sessions subheading under this Plan Information Sessions heading on the NYCE PPO website to see the schedule and registration links. Some in-person and virtual CUNY agency briefings are also being scheduled. Check with your campus HR office to see if there’s one for your college.

The NYCE PPO Plan, administered by Emblem and United Healthcare, will start January 1, 2026, when participants in the GHI plan will be automatically transferred to the NYCE PPO. The other health plans now offered by the City will continue to be offered. Medicare-eligible retirees and their dependents are not affected by the new NYCE PPO, and supplemental benefits (Rx, Dental, Vision, etc.) provided by the PSC-CUNY Welfare Fund will remain unchanged. The PSC is compiling information here on the What’s Happening to Our Healthcare? webpage.

Early voting for the NYC General Election runs until Sunday, November 2nd, and Election Day is Tuesday, November 4th. PSC members are campaigning to elect Zohran Mamdani mayor and to support CUNY champions running for citywide office, borough president and City Council. Click here to learn more about our candidates and here to find your early voting poll site.

All-Member GOTV Meeting, Thursday 10/30

Join the PSC’s Committee on Legislation this Thursday, October 30th from 6-6:30pm for a quick, powerful meeting to kick off the last week of Get Out the Vote organizing citywide. We’ll hear from PSC leadership on the importance of this election and concrete ways you can get involved. RSVP here to join the Zoom meeting.

NYC Voters Will Have Six Proposals on their Ballots

The PSC has not taken a position on these proposals, but the Committee on Legislation has prepared this voter guide for educational purposes.

People’s Majority Launch

On Sunday, Nov. 2, the PSC will join New York City unions and community organizations to launch a citywide alliance ahead of the general election on November 4 to win Zohran Mamdani’s affordability platform and beat back Cuomo’s super PAC donors.

The rally at Sunset Park in Brookyln will be joined by electeds, and will be co-hosted by other organizations that carried Mamdani’s June primary victory, including CAAAV Voice, DRUM Beats, Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action, New York City Democratic Socialists of America, New York Communities For Change, the NYS Tenant Bloc, and United Auto Workers Region 9A.Community leaders and members will speak in support of Mamdani, in the face of a deepening affordability crisis and escalating ICE deportations.

Join the PSC to launch this powerful coalition!

PSC at the New York is Not for Sale Rally

Arturo Enamorado III, a PSC Delegate from Kingsborough Community College and member of the union’s Legislation Committee, made our case for electing Zohran Mamdani mayor in front of a crowd of 13,000 Sunday at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens. Arturo was part of a group of union speakers who kicked off the rally headlined by representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Senator Bernie Sanders, and Zohran Mamdani himself. Watch Arturo here on the PSC Instagram and click here for video of the full event.

More Volunteer Opportunities

Phone Bank this Tuesday, 6:30-8:00PM, Hybrid

Register here to participate in the Tuesday evening hybrid phone banks cosponsored by the PSC and the NY Working Families Party. Make calls from home or from the PSC office (25 Broadway, 15th Floor). Dinner at 5:30PM.

Phone Bank this Wednesday, 6:00-8:00PM, In-Person

Register here to participate in one or more weekly Wednesday evening in-person phone banks cosponsored by the PSC and the NYC Central Labor Council. Make calls from the PSC office (25 Broadway, 15th Floor). Dinner provided.

Volunteer to Help with the Final Get Out the Vote Push

Fill out this form if you’re a PSC member who can volunteer to help Get Out the Vote this Saturday and/or Sunday, and on Election Day. PSC staff will follow up and plug you into the campaign.

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American cities are under attack! Instead of investing in schools, hospitals, and public services, the Trump Administration is sending masked agents into our streets, abandoning public education, making college less affordable, kicking millions off healthcare, shutting down the government, cutting SNAP benefits, and firing essential federal workers

New York City has been directly threatened — and we’re coming together to respond. On Wednesday, October 29 at 7 PM, unions, faith leaders, and community groups are hosting a citywide mass call to talk about what we can do right now to resist the occupation, protect our neighborhoods, and get connected to the growing resistance across the city.

RSVP: HANDS OFF NYC, OCTOBER 29

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PSC members, register here to join us and AAUP and HELU partners nationwide to learn about the billionaire behind Trump’s higher ed loyalty oath compact, and how we fight back. Billionaire Marc Rowan, CEO of the private equity giant Apollo Global Management, is a key author of the Trump administration’s “Compact” for higher ed—a loyalty oath that would award federal research funding based on allegiance to Trump’s far right ideological agenda, roll back the gains of the civil rights movement, and erode the freedoms to teach, learn, and speak. Learn about Rowan’s agenda, how he and other private equity executives exercise outsized power in higher education, how Apollo has contributed to the student debt crisis —and how we can fight back.

RSVP: WHO IS MARC ROWAN?, OCTOBER 30

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Students, faculty and staff from NYC colleges and universities will protest Marc Rowan, the billionaire oligarch behind Trump’s “Compact” for colleges and universities, outside his private equity firm, Apollo Global Management. So far 7 of the 9 institutions initially invited to participate in the “compact” have rejected the extortionate offer, which ties federal funding to various ideological litmus tests. So the Trump administration is broadening outreach to any and all colleges and universities. The time is now to tell Rowan, the lead author of the “compact,” that we reject the deal.

Click here to tell us you’ll be there November 7th with the PSC contingent to defend the freedom to teach, learn, research, and speak out without government coercion or censorship! This action is part of nationwide Higher Education Day of Action sponsored by the AFT, AAUP, NEA and Sunrise Movement.

RSVP: NOVEMBER 7 PROTEST

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A hybrid forum about academic freedom, free speech and how contingency and adjunctification contribute to the suppression of political speech on campus. In-person in the PSC Union Hall, 25 Broadway, 15th Floor, and on Zoom. Sponsored by PSC/CUNY, American Association of University Professors (AAUP), and Higher Education Labor United (HELU).

• 5:00PM Eastern Time| Food available for in-person attendees
• 5:30PM Eastern Time | Zoom meeting opens for pre-event introductions
• 6:00 -8:00 Eastern Time| Program Begins in PSC Union Hall and on Zoom

RSVP: IN-PERSON, NOV 13     |     RSVP: ZOOM, NOV 13

PSC members who have gone through the union’s court watch training are welcome to join the Immigrant Solidarity Working Group to bear witness and support immigrants called to the courts at 26 Federal Plaza. We meet Thursdays and Fridays at 8:00 AM at a new location, in front of 319 Broadway, across the street from 26 Federal Plaza. The next training for members is on Wednesday, October 29 at 6:30 PM sharp–register here. We need you there!

More than 1,100 faculty, staff and students have signed a petition demanding that the Queens College administration take immediate action to protect the health of workers in Delany Hall during an ongoing construction project that has included asbestos abatement. The petition calls out the administration’s failure to ensure that proper protocols are followed and it charges Environmental Racism: workers in the building, which houses the College’s SEEK program, are primarily people of color. Even as employees have documented and reported serious respiratory illness together with recurrent dust and polluted air, the administration has dragged its feet. Sign the petition now to add your voice to their demand for a just and healthy workplace.