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May Day News

A May Day to Remember

What a May Day! There were some great events all over the City last week, and CUNY was at the heart of them. Above: students and teachers from Hunter College […]

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News Reclaim the Commons

What a week at the GC!

This has been quite a week, folks. Monday 4/24 we had our union chapter meeting and voted to approve a set of GC demands we want to organize around and […]

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Adjunct Data

The PSC recently released data it has collected on how many courses are taught by adjuncts at CUNY each year and how much adjuncts make per 3-credit course. Throughout the […]

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French court rules in favor of Macron’s pension reforms

Protests continue in France as the country’s constitutional court approved President Macron’s push through of pension reform to raise the age of retirement from 62-64. For in-depth coverage of these […]

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Solidarity to public university workers on strike!

The Professional Staff Congress Graduate Center Chapter leadership offers our support and solidarity to our public university union comrades on strike at Rutgers University (AAUP-AFT, PTLFC, and AAUP-BHSNJ), the University  […]

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News Reclaim the Commons

Another attack on the People’s Commons

Community, we are outraged. During spring break, Graduate Center Human Resources administrators removed the Dirty Laundry #tendedero (clothesline) from the 8th floor Reclaimed Commons, a project which bore witness to […]

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Grad student workers at Syracuse University vote to unionize!

Graduate student workers at Syracuse University have voted to unionize with 95% of those who voted in favor of forming a union. The wave of higher ed. worker mobilization around […]

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Rutgers Strike starts Today!

Rutgers University employees are starting their strike today, a historic moment for New Jersey schools as workers test the government’s response to public sector strikes. You can donate to their […]

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News University of Michigan Strike

Support striking grad workers at the University of Michigan

Graduate student workers at the University of Michigan are on strike for better pay and working conditions. The University has dug in its heels and asked a court to order […]

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Martin Sostre News Reclaim the Commons

We call on the GC Administration to reinstall the Afro-Asian Bookshop in Exile exhibit

Over the weekend (April 1st and 2nd), GC management ordered the removal of Martin Sostre’s Afro-Asian Bookshop in Exile exhibition from the People’s Commons. When Reclaim the Commons organizers got […]