Campaign for a New CUNY Contract

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Contracts are negotiated at the bargaining table, but won on the ground. That means mobilizing our colleagues on every campus, in our departments and in our everyday interactions. But in an era of budget shortfalls and attacks on public workers, that ground operation, while beginning on our campuses, must extend its power to Albany and City Hall. As we come to the bargaining table to negotiate a new contract with the University, the political and economic conditions that we face will no doubt influence our demands and the demands of management. That is why PSC’s budget and contract campaigns are so intertwined.

Demands: Demands for the new contract were approved at a November 4, 2010 Delegate Assembly meeting. The full text of the demands, and coverage of the DA, are available here as a special supplement of the December 2010 Clarion.

Here’s are some things you can do:

• Join the Committee of 500! Click here to find out more and here to sign up.

• Come to special chapter meeting on the contract/budget! Meetings were held in the Spring, 2011. More will be scheduled in the 2011-12 academic year.

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Be There on May 5th

The moment has come for a public demonstration of support for our vision of CUNY and for the contract we need to make that vision real.

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The PSC has called for a major demonstration on May 5. CUNY faculty, staff and students will gather at City Hall on Thursday, May 5 at 4:00 pm, and march from there to Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) on Chambers Street. We will be demanding a good contract, an end to economic austerity for CUNY, and a restoration of CUNY’s public funding.

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Bargaining Begins on New Contract

On Wednesday, January 26th the PSC bargaining team met with CUNY management to begin negotiating a new successor agreement to the contract that expired on October 19, 2010.

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PSC DA Sets Bargaining Agenda

In a packed meeting attended by more than 200 people 0n 11/4/10, the PSC Delegate Assembly voted on Nov. 4 to adopt a bargaining agenda for negotiations on a new contract.

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Committee of 500

Imagine a committee with only one goal – to improve your life at work – with an agenda developed by the faculty and staff (not the college president or the chancellor’s office), with only one meeting per semester and hundreds of members to share the work, and with a serious chance of wielding power within the University and beyond – wouldn’t you want to be part of it? That’s what we are asking you to do: join the Committee of 500.

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