By Jane Guskin, Labor Notes
November 7, 2019
The Professional Staff Congress, American Federation of
Teachers Local 2334, reached a tentative agreement in October on a new contract
with the City University of New York (CUNY). The agreement covers 30,000
workers at the university, including part- and full-time faculty, professional
staff, lab technicians, graduate employees, and more. Below we publish a piece
arguing for a no vote on the agreement. See the argument for a yes vote here.
What’s wrong with the PSC tentative agreement?
The proposed contract capitulates to New York state’s
austerity budget for public higher education, hurting CUNY students and
workers. While the PSC leadership is enthusiastically promoting this proposed
agreement as a victory, its salary gains remain far below the original
bargaining demands. Concessions like an increase in adjuncts’ workloads and
elimination of our seniority salary steps would be difficult to reverse in
future contracts.[…]
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