Check out an excellent new article in the Queens College student newspaper, the Knight News, detailing the health and safety problems at Delany Hall: “Dust in Delany Hall: Health Concerns and Displacement of Faculty Due to Mismanaged Ongoing Construction,” 10/27/2025, by Shadman Hoque.

(Pictured left) Scaffolding and fence surrounding Lloyd Delany Hall, taken September 8th, amidst ongoing construction. (Pictured right) Notice of Asbestos Abatement taped to the door of the Northeastern entrance of Delany Hall. | Photo: Shadman Hoque & Sebastian Delapaz

Dear Colleagues,

As I am sure most of you know, there has been ongoing construction at Delany Hall that is raising serious health concerns for those in and around the building. Please join us in demanding that Queens College take appropriate action to ensure the well-being of those all members of the campus community, especially those who work, seek services, attend classes, or engage in any activities in the building. I urge you to add your signature to the demand letter on the PSC website. Additional background information can be found on the campaigns page.

Thank you for your support.

Best,

Erica Doran, PSC Queens College Chapter Chair

Greetings, colleagues!

Please join us for the PSC Queens College chapter meeting on Wednesday, October 15, 12:15-1:30pm. The meeting will be held in hybrid format: in person in Powdermaker 132 (with free pizza!) and on Zoom (register here for the link). All PSC members are welcome! In addition to more general concerns and issues for our upcoming Labor/Management meetings, we will be discussing some upcoming and already enacted changes that impact us all! These will include:

Delany Hall. We will be updating you regarding the current state and our ongoing efforts to ensure the safety of those who call Delany home, and the entire campus community. Sign the letter to the Queens College Administration.

Academic freedom concerns, specifically the PSC campaign in solidarity with the Fired Four and others. CUNY has denied the step one grievance appeal of the four Brooklyn College adjuncts who were terminated this past July over the objections of their department chairs, in apparent retaliation for their views and activism in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Please note that prior to our chapter meeting, there is a rally this Friday, October 10 at 12:00pm at CUNY Central, 217 East 42nd Street in Manhattan, to support the Fired Four during their step two grievance hearing and make clear that we don’t accept this attack on our academic freedom. You can also send an email demanding reinstatement of the fired four – details can be found at https://psc-cuny.org/issues/reinstate-the-fired-four-at-brooklyn-college/.

The new campus package delivery procedures. Do you have concerns about the new campus package delivery procedures? Send them to us at [email protected] and/or bring them to the October 15 chapter meeting so we can share them with the QC administration at our October 16 Labor-Management meeting.

Healthcare changes. As of January 1, 2026, the current GHI option will no longer be available. Open enrollment starts November 1st. We will talk about what this means and steps our members should take before the open enrollment period closes on November 30th!  

Chapter elections. The Queens College chapter will hold its regular elections in the spring for the next three-year term for all executive committee positions. The deadline for submitting nominations is in January 2026. To run for office, you must be a member in good standing for at least one year in the QC chapter of the PSC. To vote in chapter elections you must be a member of the chapter in good standing for at least four months.

Not a member yet? Join the PSC.

QC Chapter website: https://queenschapter.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

Hope to see you all next Wednesday!

Best,

Erica Doran

PSC QC Chapter Chair

Queens College Action Team (QCAT) meeting dates for the fall semester are now scheduled:

Wed October 22 from 12-1
Wed November 19 from 12-1
Wed December 17 from 12-1

Register for the Zoom Link

The QCAT meets online regularly to share workplace concerns, strengthen union organizing and outreach, and plan campus actions and campaigns. Join us to fight for a better QC. Drop into a meeting or email [email protected] for more info. All are welcome!

Please join us for the first PSC Queens College chapter meeting of the fall semester this Wednesday, September 10, 12:15-1:30pm. The meeting will be held in hybrid format: in person in Powdermaker 132 (free pizza) and on Zoom (register today to get the link).

At this meeting, we will invite you to share campus-level concerns to raise at our chapter’s upcoming Labor-Management meetings. We will also discuss the PSC campaign in solidarity with the “fired four”–Brooklyn College adjuncts who were terminated by CUNY in July over the objections of their department chairs, in apparent retaliation for their views and activism in solidarity with the Palestinian people. We will talk about how these firings threaten all of us, regardless of our job titles and political views, and how they connect to the ongoing campaign at QC to defend our right to protest. We hope to see you there.

Chapter Elections

The Queens College chapter will hold its regular elections in the spring for the next three-year term for all executive committee positions: chair and vice chair (or co-chairs), secretary, officers at-large, delegates, alternate delegates, and Welfare Fund representatives. The deadline for submitting nominations is in January 2026. Learn more about chapter elections here. To run for any of these positions, you must be a member in good standing for at least one year in the QC chapter of the PSC, which represents all adjunct and full-time faculty and graduate assistants employed by Queens College and CUNY School of Law (professional staff in HEO and CLT positions have their own separate cross-campus chapters). To vote in the elections you must be a member of the chapter in good standing for at least four months

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

Save the date! Our final chapter meeting of the spring semester is May 7 from 12:15-1:30pm. All meetings will be hybrid, in Powdermaker 132 and on Zoom. If you come in person, there will be delicious pizza.

Save the date! Our next chapter meeting is March 5 12:15-1:3pm. All meetings will be hybrid, in Powdermaker 132 and on Zoom.