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The union that represents more than 30,000 faculty and staff at the City University of New York (CUNY). #1U
New York, NY
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CUNY Students are standing up for fair pay for their professors. New York should too,
@NYGovCuomo
and
@NYCMayor
.
#CUNYContractNow
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The PSC is proud to endorse
@BernieSanders
in the NYS Primary for his progressive agenda on higher education, in particular, and on broader issues that represent the interests of our members, CUNY students, and working people
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CUNY students say “We believe in our dreams. Why won't Albany believe in us?" Tell legislators
@NYSA_Majority
&
@NYSenDems
to believe.
#FundOurFutures
#NYBudget
Send this letter--> …
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Rebecca Smart teaches 11 courses a year as an adjunct at CUNY and cannot afford to send her daughter to CUNY. She's telling the Board of Trustees to DO THEIR JOB and fight for the CUNY we deserve.
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.
@ChancellorCUNY
must allow remote work & instruction at least first weeks of January. NYU, New School, Columbia, Rutgers & FIT are all doing the sensible thing -
@CUNY
should too.
#CUNYSafeReturn
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Tell your legislators,
@CarlHeastie
&
@AndreaSCousins
to increase funding for CUNY by $273.6 million, pass New Deal for CUNY legislation, and make the ultra-wealthy pay their fair share.
#NewDeal4CUNY
#InvestInOurNY
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Lawful student protest on any
@CUNY
campus should not be met with NYPD arrests, including today's demonstration at
@CityCollegeNY
. Administration can & must ensure students' safety and prevent harassment on campus without resorting to the forcible removal of peaceful protestors
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It's official! The PSC Delegate Assembly just voted tonight to make a ranked-choice endorsement for NYC Mayor:
#1
@scottmstringer
#2
@Dianne4NYC
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ALL WORK performed
@CUNY
by PSCers must be done remotely!
@BillThompsonNYC
&
@ChancellorCUNY
Everyone wants to work in safety and without endangering our families and the community.
#CUNYcovid19
#CUNYTeachWorkRemote
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PSC President James Davis alongside
@CUNY
students Joe, Ayesha, and Ariadne at
@SenSchumer
’s press conference today calling on
@POTUS
to
#CancelStudentDebt
!
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PSC Union leaders blockade doors outside CUNY Trustees meeting. They will not be moved until thered a fully funded & fair contract!
#CUNYContractNow
#FairPayForAll
#7KCUNY
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Thanks
@AOC
for writing
@ChancellorCUNY
&
@CUNY
Board Chair William Thompson in support of 1000s of adjuncts facing layoffs. You're right, NY needs CUNY now more than ever.
#CutCovidNotCUNY
No cuts! No Layoffs! Keep everyone insured!
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.
@CUNY
is $100M+ in the hole & down 300 community college faculty & staff since COVID. Advisors say campuses are so short staffed they're pulling in random staff to help. Fed funds are already allocated. Shame on this 11th hour excuse to defund public higher ed.
#CareNotCuts
CUNY is sitting on nearly $80M in federal funding, causing Mayor Adams’ office and City Council to question the their big opposition to a proposed funding reduction: sources.
@C_Sommerfeldt
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80% of
@CUNY
students are people of color. 60% have incomes <$30,000.
Most live in communities w/highest rates of job loss and COVID-19
illness & death.
#CUNY
must not cut courses they need to graduate & lay
off adjuncts that teach courses.
#CutCOVIDNotCUNY
#CUNYSummerofStruggle
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"It is dismaying that CUNY has failed to provide basic support to graduate students and address their survival needs," say Zoe Hu,
@psccunygc
chapter chair.
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Do the right thing
@ChancellorCUNY
. Allow ALL non-essential
@CUNY
staff to work remotely in January. Permit remote instruction until the case rate substantially subsides.
#CUNYSafeReturn
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DON’T BETRAY
@CUNY
in the budget! Your one-house budgets gave us hope after students, faculty + staff faced illness, job-losses & cuts to our *public* universities.Don’t fail NY now!
#ALLin4SUNYCUNY
@CarlHeastie
@AndreaSCousins
@tobystavisky
@deborahjglick
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PSC joins fellow unionists and academics in condemning the recent actions of Columbia University administration to suppress student protest on April 18.
Read full statement here:
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Thanks, Alex Pellitteri of
@nycYDSA
at Hunter College for speaking today on free tuition and the other needed investments. of 1 of 2
#NewDeal4CUNY
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NY should be investing more in institutions that serve communities of color. But
@CUNY
plans to cut 1000s of classes—& lay off 1000s of adjunct faculty.
#CutCovidNotCUNY
#CUNYSummerofStruggle
Tell CUNY: No cuts! No Layoffs! ->
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"I was stunned when — after seven years — CUNY told me: 'you don’t have a CUNY pension. You have no account with us. We have no record of anything.'"
OPINION | CUNY must fix its pension mess
City University is being sued by its faculty for not correctly paying into the retirement system
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.
@CUNY
is being stripped for parts while the richest universities get $321M in property tax breaks. Pass the REPAIR bills! THANK YOU
@ZohranKMamdani
!
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“From Astoria to Albany, the message is clear. No cuts to CUNY!” Thank you CUNY champion
@ZohranKMamdani
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A group of Queens lawmakers took aim at two of the city’s most powerful universities this week, demanding they pay their “fair share” of property taxes to directly fund their public counterparts.
#PayYourTaxes
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Comptroller
@bradlander
says “We’ve had 94 million in cuts from the
@NYCMayor
Adams administration just this year. When we say no more cuts to CUNY, we mean it!”
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Of course, PSC members are fighting for a
#NewDeal4CUNY
and a Contract for
#APeoplesCUNY
with real raises.
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“The frustration from CUNY students, faculty and staff is understandable,” said James Davis, the president of the Professional Staff Congress, which represents faculty and staff. “Mayor Adams is cutting CUNY, leaving students without needed resources.”
#FundCUNYNow
#CareNotCuts
As the City University of New York School of Law dean introduced Mayor Eric Adams at the commencement service, she noted his time spent on the police force. The crowd booed.
When Adams took to the stage, many of the graduates turned their backs to him.
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Statement on today's announced NYC budget deal: “The Professional Staff Congress and its members are immensely appreciative of the Council’s restoration of $32.4 million in CUNY funding, the majority of the Mayor’s recent cuts to community college funding.
#CareNotCUTs
🧵
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My students deserve more:
- full time faculty
- counselors
- advisers
- support
Why are you fighting for a
#NewDeal4CUNY
?
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🚨 A recent report claims
@CUNY
is not spending federal stimulus & does not need full
#NYCbudget
funding. We'll always call out management when it's deserved! But this is a cynical 11th hour ploy. Here’s why: [ A
#CareNotCuts
THREAD]
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The PSC is proud to endorse Jaslin Kaur
@jaslinforqueens
for New York City Council District 23
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Free, well-funded high quality public higher education for the public college students of New York City is within our reach. Tell Albany to fund a
#NewDeal4CUNY
Send a letter to lawmakers -->
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Hundreds of CUNY and SUNY students, faculty and staff rallying on the Million Dollar Staircase.
#NewDeal4HigherEd
#NewDeal4CUNY
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REPAIR - Repeal Egregious Property Accumulation & Invest it Right bills being announced today by NYS sponsors
@LiuNewYork
@ZohranKMamdani
would end $321M annual property tax breaks for Columbia & NYU, directing the revenue to
@CUNY
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"..our own
@CUNY
system blows everyone else out of the water...Every dollar in is a dollar that is magnified" We need
#NewDeal4CUNY
& BIG increases in RECURRING funding in this
#NYSBudget
@GovKathyHochul
@CarlHeastie
@AndreaSCousins
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Bottom line
@CarlHeastie
@AndreaSCousins
! CUNY needs $80 million MORE than what's on the
#NYSBudget
table. Fill the WHOLE TAP GAP THIS YEAR! FUND THE TUITION FREEZE. An unfunded tuition freeze guarantees inferior education and betrays
@CUNY
students
#ALLin4SUNCUNY
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85% of teachers
@Hunter_College
Campus Schools have voted to authorize the PSC to call a safety strike over COVID concerns. Teachers & students need independent safety inspections now!
@ChancellorCUNY
@HunterPresident
#HCCSsafereturn
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Enrollments at CUNY are rebounding after declining during COVID. Applications are up almost 400%!
@GovKathyHochul
, we need BIG increases in
@CUNY
funding in your Executive Budget
#APeoplesCUNY
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Thanks
@BernieSanders
for supporting
#newdeal4CUNY
!
I am proud to support the New Deal for CUNY campaign calling on New York state to tax the rich and make CUNY tuition-free for poor and working-class students.
Together, we will make this a reality at public colleges and universities across America.
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Enough with the fear mongering about asylum seekers. Enough with the PEG cuts,
@NYCMayor
. We need
#CareNotCuts
@NYCProgressives
@PeoplesPlanNYC
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In the midst of a pandemic we're resisting panicked, preemptive plans to lay off 1000s of
@CUNY
’s lowest-paid, workers. Time to
#MakeBillionairesPay
#cutcovidnotcuny
@ChancellorCUNY
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Despite the fact that colleges in the
@CUNY
system have among the best returns on investment in the entire country,
#CUNY
has announced plans to slash the budgets of 9 CUNY colleges.
#NoCutsToCUNY
#InvestinCUNY
#InvestInNY
#APeoplesCUNY
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The PSC is proud to endorse Michael Hollingsworth
@mike4brooklyn
for New York City Council District 35
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#NewDeal4CUNY
(state bill S2146/A4425) would set minimum staff-to-student ratios for full-time faculty, counselors & advisors, ensure parity pay for adjunct faculty, fix CUNY’s crumbling buildings & make CUNY tuition-free again. Let's fund it in the budget
@GovKathyHochul
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"New Yorkers are ready for a free and fully funded public university system and we are committed to making that vision a reality. Our students deserve no less." - PSC President James Davis
#InvestinCUNY
#NewDeal4CUNY
#APeoplesCUNY
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Shame on
@NewsatMedgar
Pres. Rudy Crew &
@ChancellorCUNY
for breaking the PSC-CUNY Contract by laying off
@CUNY
adjuncts w/ 3-yr appointments & tossing them off health insurance during COVID. PSC is fighting for adjuncts at a grievance hearing today. Retweet in solidarity.
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Thank you
@NYCSpeakerAdams
for your commitment to CUNY!!
“CUNY is an engine of opportunity and is critical to the city’s economic recovery.”
@NYCSpeakerAdams
Op-ed | The importance of finding funding for CUNY, an engine of opportunity
#FundCUNYNow
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.
@GovKathyHochul
wants a
#NYSBudget
w/annual tuition hikes. The Legislature wants
#NoTuitionHikes
+ 100s of millions in increased funding for
@CUNY
.
Thank these
#CUNY
alumni in the NYS Legislature. Urge them to keep pushing for
#NewDeal4CUNY
w/big, RECURRING funding increases.
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Get the budget right,
@CarlHeastie
@AndreaSCousins
!
@NYSA_Majority
@NYSenateDems
NYS needs $7 Billion in
#TaxtheRich
revenue.
@CUNY
needs $80 million MORE than what's on the
#NYSBudget
table. USE YOUR SUPERMAJORITY!
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“This is my 3rd time being fired from a
#CUNY
position in more than a decade working at
@CUNY
. This kind of behavior & complete disregard for our faculty has me deeply concerned abt the future of
#CUNY
& its ability to retain the next gen of devoted teachers..."
#NoCutsToCUNY
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CUNY needs increased funding in
@GovKathyHochul
's executive budget & full funding--not more cuts--from
@NYCMayor
.
@CUNY
needs a strong educational vision and the resources necessary to support that vision.
#NewDeal4CUNY
#CareNotCuts
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"Cutting
#CUNY
professors & classes will not bring students back from pandemic enrollment declines. We must prioritize academic excellence in supportive, robust learning environments for current & future students by continuing to
#InvestinCUNY
."
@NYCComptroller
#NoMoreCutsToCUNY
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Senator John Liu
@LiuNewYork
is speaking about the importance of CUNY to economic development. “The state has been divesting in CUNY for decades. More and more of the burden is falling on students”
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All NYC students deserve a quality education! Let's pass the REPAIR bills to fully fund CUNY! With $20B in combined endowments, tuition 2X a typical CUNY student’s income & vast land holdings in NYC, NYU and Columbia can easily afford to
#payyourtaxes
.
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President James Davis- Investing in Public Higher Ed. transforms lives!!
#NewDeal4HigherEd
#NewDeal4CUNY
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Tell the
@CUNY
Trustees &
@ChancellorCUNY
No layoffs! No cuts! They must use the CARES Act $ to save jobs & fight for the public funding CUNY needs. Hurting CUNY means hurting our recovery.
#CutCovidNotCUNY
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Great op-ed by Assembly Member
@SolagesNY
! "It’s time for the state to reinvest in [CUNY and SUNY] and follow through on
@GovKathyHochul
's vision for higher education."
#NewDeal4CUNY
#NewDeal4HigherEd
#NoTuitionHikes
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Thanks
@Senschumer
for securing $235M in fed stimulus to benefit
@CUNY
students & hold off budget cuts. We’ll all need to continue fighting for more fed, state & city funding to help power NY’s recovery.
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New York State needs free, high quality public higher education. And CUNY needs $100s of millions more in RECURRING state funding.
#NewDeal4CUNY
#NewDeal4HigherEd
@GovKathyHochul
@AndreaSCousins
@CarlHeastie
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Taryn Fivek teaches at CUNY b/c she belives it's her best opportunity to make a better world. But she's done working for poverty wages and is militant and ready to organize.
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Nationwide marches and rallies will take place TODAY to address gun violence across our country. There is still time to find a march near you.
@AMarch4OurLives
#EnoughisEnough
#March4OurLives
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.
@SenatorRJackson
helped lead the Campaing for Fiscal Equity that generated billions of new $ for preK-12, so he knows the road may be long but reversing racialized austerity in public education is a worthy struggle
#NewDeal4CUNY
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“Don’t say that you care about public higher education & underfund public higher education. Don’t say you support working-class students & then ask them to pay a tuition increase, which is a tax increase by another name…”
#NewDeal4CUNY
(1/2)
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Unions are the strongest force opposing worker exploitation, income inequality & the rending of the social safety net that millions of Americans depend on. We’re
#StickingWithOurUnion
#UnionStrong
#UnionProud
#1U
#Union
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No excuses!
#NewDeal4CUNY
@JumaaneWilliams
Says we want a free CUNY and we want it now.
#APeoplesCUNY
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We're 6' apart but standing together for CUNY from
@CUNY
central to
@NYGovCuomo
's office. It's time to
#MakeBillionairesPay
and fund CUNY now.
#CutCovidNotCUNY
!
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Colleges largely serving low-income, Black and Latino students are reeling, and experts worry that inequality in education will increase. The budget MUST invest in CUNY
#newdeal4CUNY
@CarlHeastie
@AndreaSCousins
@DeborahJGlick
@tobystavisky
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USS chairwoman
@juvaniepiquant
!!! “This budget must reflect the true fight for equity and equality!” 🔥
#Allin4SUNYCUNY
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CUNY People! SUNY People! Statewide virtual budget rally tomorrow 4PM. It's the last hours of the budget campaign. Let's give it all we've got!
#NYHEALS
#NewDeal4CUNY
#Allin4SUNYCUNY
Register here ->
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".
@CUNY
matters, education matters, youth voices matter. We are already worrying about the climate crisis, systemic racism, homophobic and transphobic policies... take one thing to worry about off of our list"
@GovKathyHochul
#NewDeal4CUNY
#StudentVoices
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Thank you Assembly Members
@HarveyforNY
@VPichardo86
@CnDeLaRosa
@KhaleelAnderson
@DickGottfried
@DavilaAssembly
@KennyBurgosNY
@Phara4Assembly
@LindaBRosenthal
for cosponsoring the
#NewDeal4CUNY
Legislation and fighting for maximum increase in
@CUNY
funding in this budget.
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The PSC is proud to endorse Tiffany Caban
@tiffany_caban
for New York City Council District 22
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“College professors working two or three jobs to make ends meet is not the American Dream!” Thank you
@KarinesReyesNYC
for sponsoring the
#NewDeal4CUNY
and standing up for a fair CUNY contract!
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Thanks to all the PSC members and students with
@NYPIRG
,
@USSCUNY
@CUNYRising
who came up to Albany today for the
#NewDeal4HigherEd
rally!
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“The amount of money the tuition hike is intended to raise is findable in so many other ways in a $227 billion budget… it doesn’t need to come out of students’ pockets.” -James Davis, president of the
@PSC_CUNY
#NoTuitionHikes
#NewDeal4CUNY
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PSC Response to
@CUNY
Board of Trustees’ Overbroad Description of Hate Speech: "Since the first contractual agreement signed by CUNY and Professional Staff Congress in 1973, the preamble has stated,
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Chapter chairs Carolina Bank Munoz, David Gerwin, Organizing Director Deirdre Brill & Pres James Davis + other PSC members in solidarity
#1u
w/
@SW_Columbia
#CUonStrike
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