Result of 7+ years with no raise + bureaucracy's all-out steamroller campaign.
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 15:05:37 -0400
From: psc2334b@xxxxxxxxxxx
To: s_an@xxxxxxx
Subject: Contract ratified by 94 percent
Colleagues:
I'm proud to announce that the 25,000 faculty and professional staff
represented by PSC will receive long-overdue raises because an overwhelming 94
percent majority of PSC members voted to ratify the new PSC-CUNY contract.
The agreement provides 10.41 percent in compounded salary increases over a
period of slightly more than seven years, from October 20, 2010 through
November 30, 2017. The raises will be retroactive to April 20, 2012 and will be
paid to employees who worked at CUNY between then and now even if they have
retired or left CUNY. The contract includes more than three times the back pay
originally offered by CUNY, won because PSC members stood up to management and
to Albany. (Use this online tool to estimate your retroactive pay.)
It took a militant, public campaign and strike authorization vote to win the
salary increases. At the same time, the campaign built the leverage needed to
negotiate breakthrough provisions on adjunct job security, full-time faculty
workload, and other gains that will improve teaching and learning conditions at
CUNY. It also includes a signing bonus for current employees.
A record-breaking 72 percent of eligible voters participated in the contract
ratification vote. The level of engagement is unprecedented in PSC ratification
votes; it is a testament to our shared vision of a better university and
evidence of your commitment to member-to-member organizing.
The contract consolidates gains won by the union between the expiration of the
last contract in 2010 and the end of the most recent negotiations--including
adjunct health insurance on the NYC plan, paid parental leave, and increased
funding for faculty research grants. It also introduces a new provision for
multi-year appointments for eligible teaching adjuncts at CUNY. The health
insurance and multi-year appointments represent major steps toward greater
professionalism and equity in the treatment of adjuncts, providing increased
stability for academic departments and guaranteed income and accrued sick days
for adjuncts on three-year appointments. More than 86 percent of adjunct
faculty who took part in the ratification vote voted "yes."
In addition, the full-time faculty now have a contractual commitment and a
timetable to restructure the teaching load to ensure that they have the time to
mentor students and to conduct research. Professional staff in
"non-promotional" HEO titles have gained opportunities for advances in pay and
title.
Thank you for organizing, turning out to dozens of rallies, attending news
conferences and lobby days, and most fundamentally, thank you for sticking
together during this very difficult fight. I also want to offer my sincere
thanks to the other PSC officers and the union staff, without whose unwavering
support and work this contract would not have been possible. There is much more
to do to make CUNY the university that its students, faculty and professional
staff deserve, but because of your activism, the PSC is well positioned to
continue this important work.
In solidarity,
Barbara Bowen
PSC President
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