Staff
Administration Anais Surkin, Interim Executive Director, [email protected] Dan Hunt, Director, Financial Services, [email protected] Operations and Human Resources Denise Poché Jetter, Director of Human Resources and Operations, [email protected] Eve Cabrera, Office Manager, [email protected] Mark Pinckney, Print Shop, [email protected] James Smith, Administrative Receptionist, [email protected] Membership Services Department Denyse Procope-Gregoire, Director, Membership, [email protected]…
Hot at Work? Don’t Sweat It Out: Taking Action on Summer Temps
July 2014 By Dania Rajendra Uncontrolled indoor temperatures are a “tremendous problem,” across CUNY, said Jean Grassman, PSC Health and Safety Watchdogs co-chair and associate professor of Health and Nutrition Sciences at Brooklyn College. Overheated classrooms, labs and other work spaces are common because of the university’s aging infrastructure. The…
Ways to keep cool for the summer
Summer means hot temperatures, trips to the beach and back-yard cookouts. But be aware that spending time outdoors during the heat of the day can put your health at risk. Here are a few tips to help you beat the heat: Try to schedule most of your outdoor…
Summer School Builds Leadership Skills of Union Women
May 2014 By Shomial Ahmad The first time Jackie Elliot went to the Northeast Summer School for Union Women, she had been a PSC member for nearly three decades and was already active in the union. Jackie Elliot (L) and Debra Bergen (R) are both on the planning committee for…
This Week in the PSC (03.25.14): State Budget Update for CUNY
State Budget Deal Update: CUNY Overall, New York’s public universities and their students are shortchanged in the State budget agreement expected to be passed today in Albany. But our organizing has led to some positive items in the budget bills: $75 per-full-time-equivalent increase in Base Aid to CUNY community colleges…
Bronx Center Gets Health and Safety Problems Fixed
April 2014 By Clarion Staff Frank Muñoz and Jean Grassman worked with other PSC members to fix health and safety hazards at CUNY's Bronx Educational Opportunity Center. Each year, more than a thousand students enroll at the Bronx Educational Opportunity Center (EOC), a CUNY center that provides job training, college…
Queens College Temperature Problems: Employee Health Gets Cold Shoulder
February 2014 By Ben Chitty, QC PSC Chapter Executive Committee Cold winter weather has caused problems for students, staff and faculty at Queens College. . All last summer and into the fall, and now in the dead of winter, the weather has stressed and strained facilities at Queens College (QC)…
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…
Clearing the Air at John Jay College
September 2013 By Clarion Staff John Pittman, executive committee member in the John Jay PSC chapter and an associate professor of philosophy (standing, far left), facilitates a discussion about indoor air quality at North Hall at a September 9 chapter meeting. Faculty and staff have complained about black dust coating…
For the Love of Our Working Conditions – and Ourselves: Stress Causes New Hazards
June 2013 By Joan Greenbaum Earlier this spring, Joan Greenbaum, co-founder of the PSC Health & Safety Watchdogs network, was given the New York State United Teachers Unsung Hero Award at NYSUT’s annual Health and Safety Conference. The award honors a NYSUT member who has gone above and beyond in…
