Colleagues:

Are you a CLT, Faculty member, Lecturer, or HEO who was promoted or reclassified between 2022 and 2024?

The QC Chapter of the PSC will be pressuring our administration to give a step raise to people promoted or reclassified between 2022- 2024 (before the contract was passed guaranteeing these raises).

Previously at QC, the practice had been to give faculty promoted to Associate or Full these one-step raises with promotion for at least the last ten years, until the CUNY administration mandated a freeze on all step raises in February 2023.

The new contract guarantees a step raise with promotion for all faculty and CLT’s, as well as for lecturers who earn CCE and for HEOs who are reclassified. Under the contract, these raises are only required for people promoted after the new contract was ratified.  However, individual colleges have the ability to award these step raises to those who were promoted prior to ratification, and several of the other CUNY colleges have done this. But our administration has not.

We are currently compiling a list of people who were promoted or reclassified between 2022 and 2024 and advocating for the administration to give them their raises. Please email [email protected] if you were promoted or reclassified between 2022 and 2024 and let us know your name, department, whether you received a step increase, and if you would like to be part of this campaign. It seems only fair that promotions should come with a raise and no one should be left behind because they were promoted before the contract was signed.

In solidarity,

Erica Doran

Chapter Chair, Queens College chapter of the PSC