To: All full-time faculty and teaching adjuncts
From: Renee Lasher (rlasher@pscmail.org)
We wanted you to be aware of the actions we are taking regarding the online teaching training that is being offered during annual leave. This impacts all of our teaching faculty, and we are fighting to protect your rights on two fronts, by making demands directly to CUNY leadership and filing grievances at the college level for violations of multiple provisions of the contract.
ON ZOOM: Participants will be emailed the Zoom registration link and instructions the day before the event.
TESTIMONY: The PSC will accept written testimony from any hearing participant who wishes to submit it. A link for written testimony submissions will be made available to participants during the hearing. Oral testimony presented on Zoom will be limited to two-minutes and subject to available time.
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Save Lives. Save Jobs. Save CUNY.
*Routes to be announced. Start making signs now to decorate the hood and windows of your car. Bikers can wear signs on their backs or handle bars. Use hashtags: #CutCovidNotCUNY #CUNYSummerofStruggle #MakeBillionairesPay
No return to in-person work without a safe return!
No Cuts! No Layoffs!
No Tuition Hike! No Fee Increase!
IN PERSON: Hostos Community College, In Front of the C Building, 450 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY
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New York, NY – Under threat of deep City and State budget cuts with just two weeks remaining before possible mass layoffs of CUNY adjuncts, the union representing over 30,000 CUNY faculty and staff has launched its second ad campaign in two months demanding “No Cuts. No Layoffs” for the already underfunded university system.
Earlier today, the PSC legal counsel sent CUNY's legal counsel a formal request for information. The union is requesting the information in order to prepare for potential litigation, if necessary, concerning CUNY's use of federal stimulus funding during the coronavirus crisis.
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (H.R. 748), or the "CARES Act," which was signed into law on March 27, provides for more than $250 million in federal funding to be allocated to CUNY colleges. The amount includes funds based on the number of students at each college and the portion of low-income students, plus additional targeted funding for minority-serving institutions. The funds are allocated to each college individually, based on the college's student population.
Under the provisions of the CARES Act, at least $118 million of the funds allocated to CUNY must be used to provide emergency financial aid to students. CUNY management reports that the University has distributed, or is in the process of distributing, those funds to students in need. But where is the rest of the funding? Even if CUNY is waiting for the final transfer of the funding from the federal government, there is no justification for colleges to implement cuts and layoffs when committed federal funding could help to avert them.
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