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BC PSC Participates in Albany Lobby Day for $7K for Adjuncts
BC Faculty were among the nearly 100 PSC members who made the trip to Albany on April 24, 2018, to meet with 26 members of the NY State Assembly and Senate, urging their support for a major salary increase for CUNY adjunct faculty, who currently teach roughly 60 percent of our courses. The demand is $7K minimum per 3-credit course, and the message was simple: Wage justice for the faculty, Educational justice for the students. After lobbying visits, the PSC contingent rallies in the State Capitol Building Gearing up for lobbying visits, BC faculty members Ramsey Scott, James Davis, Ken Estey, and Naomi Schiller.
CUNY Rising Alliance BC Event April 25
Brooklyn College PSC collaborated with NYPIRG, NY Communities for Change, AFT, and other members of the CUNY Rising Alliance to host a public hearing on April 25, 2018, at the BC Library. CUNY Students testified for over an hour and heard remarks from elected officials, including NY State Assembly Member Rodneyse Bichotte, City Council Members Inez Barron, Robert Holden, and Jumaane Williams (who sent remarks via community relations director Ernest Skinner), and NY City Public Advocate Letitia James.
CUNY Board of Trustees Met by Student-Led Rally
On Monday, the CUNY Board of Trustees visited Brooklyn College for its annual Public Borough Hearing. They got an earful inside and outside the Student Center on issues from campus facilities to adjunct salaries to control of student activity fees. NYPIRG President Smitha Vargese inveighs against unilateral action on student activity fees by Board of Trustees. Brooklyn College students make plain their demands, accompanied by Conservatory musician Allan Randall.
National Workers Day of Action
The PSC was out in full force at the February 24, 2018, National Workers Day of Action demonstration of solidarity at Foley Square, downtown Manhattan.
Adjunct $7K/course resolution to go to NYSUT in April
The PSC Executive Council approved the following resolution, to be voted on at the April 2018 annual Representative Assembly of the New York State United Teachers: NYSUT Members Support PSC’s $7K Campaign And All NYSUT Locals’ Campaigns for Fair Adjunct Pay Whereas, teachers’ unions were formed in order to demand and win professional pay and treatment for work that had previously been undervalued and viewed as non-professional; and Whereas, as teachers’ unions have multiplied and grown, they have expanded their work, winning better pay and treatment for other educational workers, for paraprofessionals and for others in service of the public good; and Whereas, in higher education, however, the past 40 years have seen a slow but devastating hollowing out of the profession, as public funding has been systematically reduced and universities and colleges have responded not by challenging the premise of austerity but by accommodating to scarcity: they have cut costs by...