In New York City, immigrants more likely to be unionized, report finds (Paywall)
The Chief: Foreign-born workers in New York City are more likely to be union members than workers born in the United States, according to a recent report from the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. In the 18 months ending this June, naturalized immigrants had a 22.3 percent unionization…
PSC’s Davis demands CUNY end ‘perennial’ problem of late adjunct pay
The Chief: In a letter sent last week, Professional Staff Congress–CUNY (PSC) President James Davis said adjuncts — who teach the majority of courses at the university — continue to face “financial stress and disrespect” when their first fall semester paychecks arrive late. “On-time pay should be a given at…
CUNY Professors Fight Back
Indypendent: When S, a faculty member at Brooklyn College opened an email from HR in June, the last thing she thought was that she was going to be let go from her position as adjunct professor. “I had been scheduled by my department to teach two classes in the fall,…
Can Zohran Mamdani Fix New York’s Public Education?
Jacobin: In this exclusive interview, organizer, union activist, and professor at John Jay College, Nivedita Majumdar, discusses the potential challenges to realizing Mamdani’s platform. These include barriers to funding, connections between education and climate, and the roles of civil society and union advocacy. Drawing lessons from historical city governance, she explains…
New York City’s Labor Movement Is United In Opposition To Attacks On Their Communities
Harlem World: New York City’s labor movement is united in sounding the alarm about the Department of Homeland Security’s plan to “flood the zone” to intimidate, harass and racially profile immigrants across our city. We are deeply disturbed by ICE’s escalating tactics of targeting immigrants at courthouses, denying residents’ due…
Protesting CUNY for Letting 4 Adjunct Faculty Go over Palestinian Rights
Informed Comment: Letter to the City University of New York protesting the non-reappointment of four adjunct faculty members and the suspension of a student.
Brooklyn College Faces Backlash Over Fired Faculty
BK Reader: More than 150 City University of New York faculty and staff rallied at Brooklyn College Thursday to demand the reinstatement of four faculty members in what the union says was due to their public advocacy for Palestinian rights. Organized by the Professional Staff Congress, a union representing 30,000 faculty and staff at…
Zionist McCarthyism Comes for CUNY
Jacobin: Republicans’ ideological attack on higher education seemed limited to elite Ivy League institutions at first, briefly dressing up an authoritarian crackdown on left-wing ideas like Palestinian solidarity and racial equality in the drag of anti-elitism. That’s changing. Now they’re coming for public universities all over the country.
CUNY’s Repression of Pro-Palestine Students Continues in Front of Congress
The Nation: On July 15, Matos-Rodriguez was one of three university presidents, along with the heads of the University of California and Georgetown, to face questioning before the House Committee on Workforce and Education about a supposed unchecked crisis of antisemitism. The Professional Staff Congress—CUNY’s staff and faculty union—and many…
Faculty Unions & New York City Electeds Say ‘Hands Off Higher Ed! Hands Off CUNY!’
WNY Labor Today: Leaders of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC), the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) are speaking out to defend free expression and academic freedom on college campuses and oppose the partisan assault on American Universities. Last week’s Hands Off Higher…