(NEW YORK CITY) – Professional Staff Congress (PSC) President James Davis has announced the 30,000 Faculty and Professional Staff Represented by the Union will receive long-overdue raises, along with other contractual gains, because an overwhelming 90% majority of PSC members have voted to ratify the new PSC-CUNY (City University of New York) contract.

The agreement between the PSC and CUNY management includes 13.4% minimum raises, a $3,000 ratification bonus (prorated for Part-Time Faculty and Staff), and additional equity increases in salary for PSC Colleagues in CUNY’s lowest-paid titles, Including Teaching Adjuncts.

The raises are retroactive to March 1st, 2023.

Said Davis:

After more than 40 bargaining sessions and two years of organizing, Members got to decide and 66% of eligible voters participated in the three-week ratification, of whom 90% voted yes.

The bargaining sessions, open to Union Members, were observed by more than 900 Faculty and Staff.

Thousands more participated in Union-wide meetings, marches, pickets, press events and protests of the CUNY Board of Trustees.

Thirty PSC Members were arrested demanding a good contract at an October Trustees hearing.

Every significant gain in this contract is the result of PSC Members’ solidarity and action.

Thank you to all who participated in the campaign and to all who voted.

Other enhancements in the contract include, but are not limited to: Investments in the PSC-CUNY Welfare Fund that provides supplemental health benefits; Expansion of Paid Parental Leave from eight to 12 weeks; Protections against outsourcing of teaching to AI (Artificial Intelligence); New paths to promotion; A major step toward adjunct pay parity; Improvements to reclassification and comp time for HEOs; Assurance of a raise with promotion or reclassification; and Additional support for research and professional development.

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