Come one, come all, to the 2nd Adjunct Project workshop in our new series! Governor Cuomo has all but passed an incredibly eviscerating state budget that will “leave [New York] with 6,100 fewer teachers, 20 fewer fire companies and 100 fewer senior centers,” the NYTimes reported today. Undoubtedly, this kind of intense economic attack will hit us hard in CUNY as management tries to pass off cuts to us, our colleagues, and our students while we undergo this difficult contract campaign.
Now is the time to get involved against this terrible momentum of austerity being foisted upon working people in NYC. Please forward this announcement widely, and we’ll see you all on Wednesday.
“I’m Stickin’ to the Union!” Galvanizing the PSC & our Contract Campaign
Wednesday March 30th @ 6:30pm CUNY Graduate Center, rm 5414 365 Fifth Avenue B/D/F/M/N/Q/R to 34th St-Herald Square
Join us on Wednesday, March 23, for a direct action with the PSC in Albany!
Buses will leave at 8am on Wed from 5 different locations: * Bronx Community College, 2155 University Ave., Bronx, NY 10453 * Hunter College, 695 Park Ave. (68th St. & Park Ave.), New York , NY 10021 * Queens College, 150th St. and Melbourne Ave., Flushing, NY 11367 * PSC, 61 Broadway, New York, NY 10006 * NYC College of Technology, 300 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY 11201
timeline: 11:30am in Albany: Lunch and preparing for the day’s events. 1:00pm Walk to the Capitol 1:30pm Rally inside the Capitol 3:30pm Those returning to NYC at the end of the day, return to their busses, arrive in the city between 6:30 and 7:00pm
The PSC asks that everyone participating in the direct action should attend a training session at one of these two times: Sunday, March . . . → Read More: Direct Action in Albany on March 23!!!
The next general AP meeting, scheduled for Tuesday March 22nd, will be at 5:30 pm in Room 5414 at the Grad Center.
Please make a note of the new time, which was changed in order to maximize attendance. The agenda may include: 1. Upcoming Events 2. Listserv Changes 3. Update on the AP Workshop Series 4. Day of Rage Rally/March 5. PSC Delegate Assembly Meeting/Nationwide Strike and Contract Campaign Working Group Update 6. NYSHIP Forum (We have a date: April 27th!) 7. AP Meeting Process and Decision Making
In this issue: 1. Upcoming Events 2. The AP Meeting: 3/22/11 at 5:30 pm in 5414 3. President Kelly’s Budget Update 4. PSC’s Direct Action to Stop Austerity Budget Attached: 1. Direct Action to Stop Austerity Budget Flyer
1. Upcoming Events
A variety of important labor events are happening in the next few weeks!
Tuesday, 3/22 -Adjunct Project Meeting, now at 5:30 pm, The Graduate Center room 5414. See below. by: The Adjunct Project Wednesday, 3/23 -Direct Action to Stop Austerity Budget, a huge march on Albany planned by the PSC, all day, Albany. See below. by: The Professional Staff Congress
Thursday, 3/24 -State of Emergency Protest: Day of Rage Against the Cuts, a student/labor/community rally against budget cuts, 5:00 pm, City Hall (March to Wall Street at 6:00 pm) by: a number of awesome groups, see earlier announcement to this listserv
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)
The Adjunct Project’s new Workshop Series presents…
ACADEMIC FREEDOM and the NEW McCARTHYISM
Monday, March 14 @ 6:30pm
CUNY Graduate Center, Concourse Room 201 (basement level)
365 Fifth Avenue B/D/F/M/N/Q/R to 34th St-Herald Square
Panel and discussion featuring:
Frances Fox Piven Professor of Political Science and Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center, author of Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America Ashley Dawson Professor of English, CUNY Graduate Center, co-editor of Dangerous Professors: Academic Freedom and the National Security Campus Carol Smith Retired faculty, The City College of New York, curator of the online exhibit “The Struggle for Free Speech at CCNY, 1931-42″ Kristofer Petersen-Overton Adjunct Lecturer of Political Science, Brooklyn College.
Our university is once again under attack. Two opponents of academic freedom, Glenn Beck and NY Assemblyman Dov Hikind, have recently targeted CUNY faculty members Frances Fox Piven and Kristofer Petersen-Overton, respectively, in the . . . → Read More: Academic Freedom and the New McCarthyism: AP WORKSHOP on Mon 3/14!!!
Attention CUNY Community, As of today, Kristofer Petersen-Overton has been unconditionally reappointed to teach his Middle East course for this Spring 2011 semester. Brooklyn College finally responded to the swiftly galvanized public pressure from CUNY folks, the community, and supporters (literally) worldwide who had heard about his case and spoke out. See BC President Karen Gould’s letter reprinted below.
We will hold a Celebration Rally at Brooklyn College this Thursday, on schedule at 12pm, and call on all supporters of university justice and academic freedom to join us. We all who fought this fight collectively won alongside Kristofer, we tremendously benefit from this victory, and so we all deserve to celebrate! See you there. (And take a look at the joyous new flyer!)
We Stopped the Attacks on Academic Freedom! Kristofer Petersen-Overton is back!
Last night our colleague, friend, and comrade, Kristofer Petersen-Overton was reappointed to his adjunct position in the political science department at Brooklyn College. This is a victory for academic freedom. As of now the rally/protest scheduled for Thursday will now be a victory party!
See the announcement below by president of Brooklyn College, Karen Gould:
Dear students, faculty, and staff,
Over the past several days, as a result of a provostial decision about an adjunct appointment, Brooklyn College has been thrust into a debate about academic freedom. This debate has been fueled at times by inflammatory rhetoric and mischaracterization of the facts. It is unfortunate that matters of utmost importance to our college community can be so rapidly co-opted by those with a political agenda and distorted by the media.
I stand united with you: We must never allow decisions about our students’ education to be swayed by outside influence. . . . → Read More: A VICTORY FOR ACADEMIC FREEDOM!
Good afternoon fellow adjuncts! With the spring 2011 semester upon us, it is sad but true that some of us might receive our first paycheck (Feb 10) late. As something that is the norm rather than the exception, many adjuncts and others do not receive their checks on time. Below is a short guideline that one should follow if they do not receive a check on time:
1. Make sure your department has submitted your paperwork to the Human Resources at the school you are teaching.
2. If paperwork has been submitted to H.R. follow-up with them to make sure all of your paperwork has been processed and submitted on time.
3. If your paper work has been submitted and processed through H.R. check with Payroll to make sure they received all the necessary paperwork.
If all three of these things are completed and you have still not received a . . . → Read More: What to do about late pay
