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Contingent Labor in a Time of Austerity

Contingent Labor in a Time of Austerity: A Discussion with California Adjunct Organizer Jonathan Karpf and PSC Adjunct Leaders What can we learn from other academic unions about transforming the […]

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Phone Banking

Hello electorate, The September 13th NYS Primary is (literally) around the corner – as you probably know, our allies in the Senate and Assembly were critical in defending CUNY’s budget […]

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Upcoming Meetings: New Members and HEOs

Two upcoming meetings will be of interest to many PSC members in our community. First, on September 9th at 12:30pm, we will have a New Member Orientation. Any new member […]

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Graduate Center Convocation & New Student Orientation

Tomorrow, August 23rd, is the Graduate Center’s Convocation and New Student Orientation. This year one of the new student workshops will be “Your Rights as an Academic Worker in the PSC,” from 2:30-3:30pm, […]

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Contract Ratification

Below is the text from the emailed announcement that proposed contract with CUNY has been ratified by PSC members: ************************************************************************ Colleagues: I’m proud to announce that the 25,000 faculty and […]

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Greetings, HEOs!

Andrea Ades Vásquez is the Managing Director of the Graduate Center’s New Media Lab, as well as Associate Director of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning. She […]

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Why I’m Voting Yes

Lizzie Eisenberg is a PhD student in Political Science and Guest Lecturer in Urban Studies at the Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies. See our Proposed Contract Discussion page for more […]

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Why I’m Voting “No” on the Contract

Jeremy Sawyer, Chapter Executive Committee member and delegate for the PSC Delegate Assembly, shares his perspective on why he’s voting no. This piece is being reposted with the permission of […]

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Yes, and….

Luke Elliott-Negri, Chapter President and Graduate Assistant in Sociology, offers his individual take on the vote (earlier he was one of seven Graduate Assistants whose analysis can be found here). […]

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Email to Grad Assistants

Yesterday an email went out to Graduate Assistants (GAs) linking to the analysis written by seven Graduate Center GAs. You can find the text of that email below. ************************************************************************ Dear […]