Thank you to the more than 5,500 CUNY faculty and professional staff who signed the petition below.  The PSC delivered the signed petitions to Chancellor Matthew Goldstein on September 19th.

Our Vision for a New Contract

The PSC campaign for a new contract is part of the union’s agenda to make CUNY what it could be—and our professional lives here what they should be.

A great university provides the conditions faculty and staff need to work. Why not CUNY?

The PSC contract demands express the union’s vision for CUNY:

• restoration of competitive salaries
• strong tenure protections
• support for academic freedom
• reasonable workloads
• excellent benefits
• fair treatment for part-time faculty
• family-friendly provisions
• advancement for professional staff
• support for research and scholarship
   

CUNY management’s demands express a very different agenda:

• weakening tenure
• weakening academic freedom
• removing department chairs from the union
• weakening job security for HEOs
• replacing salary steps with micro-management
  of salary by presidents
• increasing exploitation of contingent labor
• weakening due process
• weakening the union
   

I support the PSC’s demand for a university that provides the salaries and conditions we need to educate our students.