Upcoming Events

Town Hall Meeting on Pathways
March 8, 2012 - 6:00pm

PSC Delegate Assembly
March 15, 2012 - 6:30pm

PSC Delegate Assembly
April 19, 2012 - 6:30pm

PSC Delegate Assembly
May 10, 2012 - 6:30pm

News

Stop Tier VI

Take action against the attacks on public-worker pensions. Call 1-877-255-9417 to tell your legislators and the governor that you oppose a new Tier 6 pension plan that would cut benefits for New York’s future public employees, including new CUNY faculty and staff.

AFL-CIO Radio Spot Opposing Tier 6

PSC's affiliate, the AFL-CIO, has launched a substantial statewide radio ad campaign opposing the rollback of middle class retirement security. The ad responds to the proposal to create Tier 6 – a new, woefully inadequate retirement plan for nurses, teachers, firefighters, and other employees of state and local government.

PSC opposes Tier 6 because instituting poorer pensions for new employees will sabotage CUNY's efforts to recruit top-quality faculty and staff

PSC President Barbara Bowen delivered testimony about how the Governor's Executive Budget proposal will affect faculty, staff and students at CUNY. In her testimony, Bowen highlighted important positive developments in the Governor’s budget plan, like the inclusion of adjunct health insurance and funding for CUNY's mandatory cost increases, and she made a powerful case for more public investment in CUNY.

Adjunct Pay Dates/ Spring Semester 2012

Adjunct pay dates for Spring 2012 have been set. The first pay date at the senior colleges is February 9 and at community colleges, February 17.

Join us for our special back-to-back Saturday screening/discussion on January 21 of Waiting For Superman and The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman.

One has received massive publicity and funding to promote charter schools as part of a neoliberal reform. The second one is a local NYC response, made by NYC schoolteachers, exposing the inaccuracy and inequity driving the charter school movement. We will view both films and have a discussion featuring Julie Cavanagh, one of the Inconvenient Truth producers, and PSC's Treasurer and author on the charter school movement, Mike Fabricant.

The screening is sponsored by the PSC and is open to the public.
PSC Union Hall
61 Broadway, 16th Floor
$2 donation
Refreshments served

Sign Up to Advocate for PSC Priorities in Albany

PSC members will have the opportunity to meet with State lawmakers in Albany to demand tax fairness and restoration of CUNY funding. We will continue to press for an end to attacks on public sector pensions and full support of CUNY’s budget priorities, including adjunct health insurance. (See a full list of PSC legislative priorities.)

The union works with our state-wide affiliate, NYSUT, on a series of concentrated advocacy days: March 5-6, March 19-20 and May 21-21. We need you there! Transportation, food and housing costs are covered by NYSUT. PSC will handle scheduling appointments.

Reserve your spot soon; registration fills up quickly. Complete the form below, indicating the dates you wish to participate. For more information, contact Amanda Magalhaes.

Paid Parental Leave Renewed

An agreement between the PSC and CUNY means that funding for this benefit will continue past December 31. Across CUNY, parents-to-be welcomed the news.

Parents and children who took advantage of the leave benefit at a celebration at the PSC Union Hall.

PSC 2011-2012 Legislative Priorities

NEW YORK STATE PRIORITIES

CUNY budget:

Fully-fund mandatory cost increases including

stable funding for adjunct faculty health insurance
funding for 440 additional full-time instructional lines.

Restore community college base operating aid to $2675 per FTE student (to FY 2008 levels).

Adjunct Unemployment Insurance (A 6673 Wright / S 727 Peralta) *

On Tuesday, December 13, 2011, PSC Secretary Arthurine DeSola testified about CUNY's Accelerated Study in Associate Program (ASAP) at an over sight hearing hosted by the Higher Education Committee of the New York City Council. Here is her testimony:

On Friday, December 9, 2011, PSC Secretary Arthurine DeSola testified about financial aid for undocumented immigrant students before a joint hearing of the New York State Assembly Joint Hearing of the Committee on Higher Education and Governmental Operations. Here is her testimony: