◄SEND A FAX PROTESTING CUTS. Mayor Bloomberg has proposed $65 million in cuts to CUNY’s budget. We must act now to make sure those cuts are restored by the City Council and new funds added to meet critical needs at every CUNY campus. Click here to send faxes to the Council Speaker and the Mayor.

City Council Members Join PSC Budget Effort to Stop CUNY Cuts. Fourteen City Council Members joined more than 150 City University of New York (CUNY) faculty, staff and students at a City Hall press conference on May 7th calling on the Mayor and the City Council to restore budget cuts to CUNY. The PSC also delivered 25,000 postcards signed by CUNY students, faculty and staff demanding budget  restorations. Details.

Click here for more information on this year's CUNY budget (both city and state) -- and the role you can play.
 

The union is airing a hard-hitting 30-second ad that brings the crisis of uncompetitive salaries to the public’s attention.  Click here for details.

CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS

►PSC TELLS THE B.O.T. THAT CUNY NEEDS A RAISE at its April 28th meeting.  Details.

►OPEN LETTER TO THE CHANCELLOR.  There is still no economic offer. Click here for Barbara Bowen's open letter to Chancellor Matthew Goldstein.

►BARGAINING NEWS & ANALYSIS.  For all the latest negotiations news, events and analysis, click here. 

►LOST FACULTY.  Do you know of colleagues who have left CUNY or have turned down a CUNY position because of salaries and workloads that are not nationally competitive?  Please help us by providing information about those colleagues by clicking here and then completing the online form.

►SALARY EROSION.  A key issues for PSC members in the present contract talks is salary erosion and the effect of the University’s reliance for half its teaching on underpaid part-timers. Click here for an analysis.

►PARENTAL LEAVE.   Family leave is a major item in contract negotiations.  Click here to learn more.   And help us to gather information on this issue by completing an online questionnaire.

►CONTRACT BROCHURES.  The union has produced a series of six new brochures about some of the key issues at stake in this round of bargaining. Click here for more information and to see brochures.

►JOIN THE CONTRACT CAMPAIGN.  Details.

PRE-RETIREMENT CONFERENCE scheduled for Tuesday, May 20th.  Click here for details and registration information.

Part-Timer Unemployment Insurance: By clicking here, send an Act Now letter to your state legislators supporting a bill that would enable adjuncts to receive unemployment insurance when they are unemployed and have no income.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GRANTS. For information and application materials for HEO-CLT  and Adjunct/CET grants click here.

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