QUEENS COLLEGE–CUNY faculty disrupted a CUNY Board of Trustees meeting at John Jay College on Oct. 21, leading to a protest outside and over 30 faculty arrests.
“CUNY offered unacceptable raises seven months ago, a year after their top executives received 27% and 30% bumps in pay,” PSC President James Davis said. “They haven’t shown faculty, staff and students the respect of a fair economic offer and haven’t put another dollar on the bargaining table since March.”
The Professional Staff Congress is a CUNY-wide worker union representing over 30,000 faculty members. The PSC is responsible for negotiating improvements in staff wages, educational programs, fund distribution, and policy reforms with the CUNY Board of Trustees. The trustees failed to renew their contract, which expired in February 2023, stalling negotiations, straining working conditions for faculty, and growing concerns over the quality of CUNY’s educational facilities.
