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Wednesday, October 5th!!! National Student Walk-out against tuition hikes & budget cuts, and in solidarity with #OccupyWallStreet http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=284445828240409 + COMMUNITY/LABOR MARCH TO WALL STREET!!! at 4:30pm at Foley Square, Duane St and Centre St (outside 26 Federal Plaza) http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=282473051782707 If you’re at Hunter College that day, a speak-out will occur at 1pm outside the Hunter West bldg at 68th and Lexington then… Grad Center folks will meet in the lobby at 3:45pm for a caravan to leave at 4pm sharp (another group will also leave at 4:15pm if ou can’t make the first caravan) for a mass student/labor/community rally at *Foley Square* that will march to Liberty Plaza, the site of Occupy Wall Street. More info about the rally: Union workers and community members impacted by the economic crisis have been demanding that Wall Street and the wealthiest New Yorker’s pay their fair share of taxes. Let’s march down . . . → Read More: Walk-out and Community/Labor March to Wall Street! WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 5TH! Hi, everyone, This is a lil’ reminder about the Adjunct Project’s next working mtg: Friday, September 23, 2-4pm Graduate Center room 5414 Free food and drinks, so bring a friend or five. The weather’s changing, so get a rad scarf too. $5 each, or $10 solidarity rate. Here are some proposed topics to discuss: *report-backs about the PSC trainings last week *Plan our involvement in the Sept. 26 CUNY BoT protest *discuss our involvement in the Oct. 7 Defending Public Higher Ed Conference at the GC *Fall’11/Spring’12 workshop schedule proposal based on your survey responses *Create AP working groups (health care, contract campaign/GC chapter, workshops, media/publicity, etc.) that can hold “break-out” activity sessions for part of each AP mtg, then report back to the group *Establish a semi-regular GC/CUNY outreach tabling schedule *AP website and office need love! Solicit volunteers to help out… *What else do YOU think . . . → Read More: **next Adjunct Project working mtg this Friday** The following lists the dates for upcoming chapter meetings scheduled by the PSC to specifically focus on the union’s contract campaign. Please plan to attend the meeting on your local campus — and bring your friends and colleagues — to make sure adjunct demands are heard in your chapter!!! The upcoming AP workshop “I’m Stickin’ to the Union: The Nuts and Bolts of the PSC and the Contract Campaign” on Wednesday March 30th at 6.30pm in Room 5414 at the CUNY Graduate Center will be an opportunity to get information on the union’s contract demands, the PSC’s bargaining strategy, the AP’s contract campaign, and how adjunct issues fit into the fight against budget cuts, as well as mobilizing for the special DA meeting the next day!!! (chapter meetings already passed: HEO chapter, City Tech, CLT, QCC, York, Lehman, BMCC) BCC — March 24, 12-1.50pm, Meister Hall, room 228 Hostos — . . . → Read More: Upcoming PSC chapter meetings on the contract campaign in Spring 2011 The PSC, our union, has local chapter meetings at each CUNY campus throughout the school year. As an Adjunct, it is important to attend the local meetings, particularly at the campus(es) you teach! The Adjunct Project is compiling a list of all CUNY chapter local PSC meetings. This is meant for Adjuncts and other CUNY staff to find easily and accessible for date, time, and location. In the crucial contract negotiations only a few weeks away, it is important to attend these local meetings. Below is the list of local chapter meetings we have thus far from CUNY campuses. The meetings in italics are upcoming and very important because of the November 4 contract negioations. Baruch Chapter Meeting, Thursday, Oct. 21, 12:30 pm, Library Building H763 Chapter Meeting, Thursday, Dec. 9 12:30 pm, Library Building H763 Chapter Meeting, Thursday, Feb. 17 12:30 pm, Library Building H763 Chapter Meeting, Thursday, March . . . → Read More: PSC Local Chapter Meetings The Professional Staff Congress (PSC)–the union which represents contingent (and all) employees teaching at CUNY–will have meetings on THURSDAY OCTOBER 21ST and NOVEMBER 4TH to discuss the demands they’ll make for the new contract with CUNY. The PSC and the Adjunct Project encourage all individuals teaching at CUNY to attend. The meeting, called a Delegate Assembly, is open to all PSC Members. If you teach at CUNY, you pay dues, and by filling out a brief card you become a member, and can then vote on the upcoming contract. The Adjunct Project will have union membership cards available at the meeting. SIGN THE CONTRACT DEMANDS PETITION <———–HERE!!!!!!!!!! |
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