Brooklyn College Chapter Statement on “$7K or Strike”
Passed at Nov 20, 2018 PSC Chapter meeting. Whereas adjuncts make up 61% of the faculty at CUNY and teach 53% of classes, at an average rate of $3,500 per three-credit class with no compensation for research or advising, amounting to an annual salary of $28,000 for the same courseload as full-time professors, who make $47,000 at the lowest step; Whereas adjunct poverty is detrimental to student success since adjuncts, who teach the majority of required courses, are forced to work additional jobs and consequently do not have the time they need and want to dedicate to their students; Whereas devaluing adjunct labor is the principal means of devaluing the labor of CUNY education workers across all titles ; Whereas the PSC has rightly put adjuncts at the center of the current contract campaign by demanding an adjunct minimum wage of $7,000 per three-credit course in the next contract; Whereas $7K per course is still a poverty wage in New York City but is at lea...