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 first Fall 2025 chapter meeting is Wednesday, Sept. 10 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 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.

Join your PSC colleagues and students to view and discuss UNION, the documentary about the first union of Amazon workers on Staten Island. Snacks and beverages provided. Free!

Our first Spring 2025 QCAT meeting will be on Tues., Feb. 25th, 2-3pm via zoom

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.

The Queens College administration is attempting to implement a new policy on public demonstrations that is arbitrarily and needlessly restrictive, and infringes on our constitutional rights to free speech as students, faculty, staff and as citizens. Sign the letter to resist this unfair policy!

FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 12:15 PM-1:15 PM
Virtual teach-in to learn more about your rights under the Henderson Rules, what QC is trying to change, and how you are part of a decades-long organizing and protest tradition at Queens College. Register to get the teach-in link.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 12 NOON
Rally and march on the QC campus – Gather at the main entrance of Kiely Hall (facing Kissena Blvd). We won’t be silenced! QC admin loves to honor activists from the past like Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Andrew Goodman–the Queens College student and civil rights activist who was murdered in Mississippi in 1964–while shutting down the right to protest on campus today.

Dear Colleagues,

By now most of you have heard about the Memorandum of Agreement with CUNY for the 2023-2027 PSC-CUNY contract. A good number of us have already voted on the ratification of the contract. Voting ends on January 10th 2025.

Since the zoom sessions by James Davis and the bargaining team for the PSC were held during grading season, some of you may have missed them and/or still have questions.

Members of the QC PSC Executive Committee will hold information/listening sessions via zoom on Monday, Dec. 30th and Wed., Jan. 8th from 12pm to 2pm. We will do our best to address your questions and concerns.

ZOOM INFO:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82109742085?pwd=xLapem25rTUJ6b2I50fidHCMZ2lQcy.1
Meeting ID: 821 0974 2085
Passcode: 584236

Sincerely,

QC PSC Chapter Executive Committee

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