Category: Events & Meetings (Page 4 of 5)

Building alliances with undergrads…

December 19, 2010 / Alyson S. / 0 Comments

…this may be a good place to do it? (Check this out. It’s organized by the March 4th/October 7th Committee, and apparently lots of student activists from the senior colleges have been coming to these meetings. It may be a great place for for the AP to build relationships with these students, which will be imperative in fighting tuition hikes and budget cuts in the spring)…

Spring Organizing Kickoff Meeting

When: Sunday, January 16, 12 to 2 PM (longer if necessary)

Where: Solidarity Center, 55 West 17th St., 5th floor (between 5th and
6th Aves.)

This meeting will be used to review and assess the previous semester’s
actions and strategize for next semester. This will be an excellent
opportunity to discuss the inter-related campaigns against tuition
hikes, budget cuts, layoffs and the upcoming contract negotiations,
including the struggle to win real improvements for adjuncts,
including pay raises, job security and health care.

For more information, email march4ny@gmail.com

HOLIDAY CARDS FOR THE PROVOST!

December 8, 2010 / Alyson S. / 0 Comments

Baruch’s Provost is ringing in the New Year with class size increases and adjunct layoffs. And CUNY’s New Years Resolution is to charge you more tuition.

What are we going to do about it?

Grab some paper, some scissors, and some markers, wish Provost McCarthy a happy new year, and let him know how you feel about charging more for bigger classes!

Join our holiday card–making session on

Mon Dec 13^th 1-4pm (Baruch Vertical Campus lobby)

Provost McCarthy has instructed many department chairs at Baruch College to eliminate courses and the contingent workers who teach them by creating jumbo classes of over 100 students. These classes will not have teaching assistants, and some instructors won’t even have a grader. The Adjunct Project stands in solidarity with Baruch students, department chairs, and faculty in demanding no class size increases at Baruch or any other CUNY campus.

The situation at Baruch is changing rapidly, but even if new jumbo classes end up not being in the mix, general class size increases appear to be on the horizon for the spring and definitely the fall, and adjunct layoffs are a certainty. If this gets rammed through at Baruch, we can all be sure that it will set a precedent for all of CUNY, and that we will see larger classes everywhere, and longtime adjuncts being fired as their classes are taken away.

Baruch is a laboratory, and a precedent will be set however things end up! Make the precedent our resistance to the “walmartization” of CUNY!

Check this SNOWPERSON out!!!

LAST AP MEETING OF SEMESTER!!!

December 2, 2010 / Calvin S. / 0 Comments

Please join us tomorrow for the last AP meeting of the semester!

WHEN: Thursday, Dec. 2nd at 6:30 pm
WHERE: Room 5414 (GC)

•Find out about the PSC’s proposed bargaining agenda and how we can mobilize for the upcoming contract campaign
•Share ideas about increasing AP membership and involvement
•Learn about changes in the Adjunct Project
•Hear about an upcoming NYSHIP forum

We will also discuss the situation at Baruch (adjunct layoffs and jumbo class creation), organizing against that, and also around the budget cuts and recently-approved tuition hike.

Come to celebrate all your hard work this semester (there will be pizza, snacks, and beverages)!

Thanks–hope to see you there!

BoT meeting tomorrow: protest tuition hikes!!!

November 22, 2010 / Alyson S. / 3 Comments

***Please Forward Widely***

CALLING ALL CUNY TEACHERS AND STUDENTS!

DON’T LET PUBLIC EDUCATION GO EXTINCT!

Tuition has gone up 44% since 2003.

Now the CUNY Administration is doing it to us again with a proposed

5% tuition increase for Spring 2011, and 2% tuition increase for Fall 2011

To make things worse, Baruch College is also planning to lay off Adjunct Lecturers

and create 150-200 student-sized Franken-classes across departments!

TELL THE CUNY BOARD OF TRUSTEES WE WON’T TAKE IT ANY MORE.

***Rally outside the CUNY Board of Trustees meeting***

Monday, November 22, 3:30 pm

Join the Adjunct Project caravan from the Graduate Center to Baruch! Meet in the GC lobby on Monday at 2:45pm to walk to the rally together.

Contacts: Carl (646.413.1347) and Conor (979.204.9253)

Rally location and details:

Baruch College, 55 Lexington Avenue (corner of 24th Street), Vertical Campus.

We will rally outside from 3:30 to 4:00, then go into the Board meeting,

which starts at 4:30 and is in room 14-220 of Baruch’s Vertical Campus.

For more info, contact TheAdjunctProject@gmail.com

November 4th Meeting! Important!

November 2, 2010 / Calvin S. / 0 Comments

Come one COME ALL!!! This Thursday night at 630 pm at 61 broadway, nyc, the PSC union will decide on contract demands to take to the bargaining table with CUNY.

It is important to attend and show your support! Come in solidarity by wearing a T-Shirt (contact The Adjunct Project for one).

Hope to see you all there!

PSC Local Chapter Meetings

October 12, 2010 / Calvin S. / 1 Comment

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 24, 12:30 pm, Library Building H763
Chapter Meeting, Thursday, May 11, 12:30 pm, Library Building H763

BMCC

Chapter Meeting, Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2 pm, N 404
Chapter Meeting, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2 pm, N 404
Chapter Meeting, Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2 pm, N 404

CCNY

Chapter Meeting, Tuesday, Oct.12, 12:15 pm, MR-4 (Marshak)
Chapter Meeting, Tuesday, Nov. 9, 12:15 pm, MR-4 (Marshak)
Chapter Meeting, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 12:15 pm, MR-4 (Marshak)

Medgar Evers

Chapter Meeting, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 11:30 am, Lecture Hall, Room 122-S
Chapter Meeting, Wednesday, Nov. 10, 11:30 am, Lecture Hall, Room 122-S
Chapter Meeting, Wednesday, Dec. 8, 11:30 am, Presidential Conf. Ctr.

NYCCT

Chapter Meeting, Thursday, Oct. 28, 12:45 am, Room N701A
Chapter Meeting, Wednesday, Dec. 8, 4 pm, NYCCT Staff Lounge

Retirees

Chapter Meeting, Monday, Nov. 1, 1 pm, PSC, 61 Broadway, 16th Floor — Clarissa G. Weiss: Retiree Benefits Under TRS and TIAA.   Irwin Yellowitz: NYSUT Video of his being awarded Retiree of the Year and Commentary.
Chapter Meeting, Monday, Dec 6, 1 pm, PSC, 61 Broadway, 16th Floor — Frances Fox Piven: The Great Socialist Subversion: Challenging Authority.
Annual Winter Luncheon, Monday, Topic and January date to be announced.
Chapter Meeting, Monday, Feb. 7, PSC, 61 Broadway, 16th Floor — James Parrot (Fiscal Policy Institute): The Future of Public Services.
Chapter Meeting, Monday, March 7, 1 pm, PSC, 61 Broadway, 16th Floor — Larry Morgan and Patrick Smith, PSC-CUNY Welfare Fund
Chapter Meeting, Monday, April 4, 1 pm, PSC, 61 Broadway, 16th Floor — Prof. Ellen Schrecker: Academic Freedom.
Chapter Meeting, Monday, May. 2, 1 pm, PSC, 61 Broadway, 16th Floor — John Bloom, Workers Defense League.

*Annual Spring Luncheon and Year-In-Review Meeting, Monday, Speaker and June date to be announced.

Hunter

Chapter meeting, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 1:10-3pm, HW8th floor, FDA lounge
Chapter meeting, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 1:10pm-3pm, HW8th floor, FDA lounge
Chapter meeting, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 1:10pm-3pm, HW8th floor, FDA lounge

Kingsborough Community College

Tuesday, Oct 19/3 pm/room M239

BCC

October 13th

Queensborough Community College

Chapter meeting on October 13th with Clarissa Gilbert Weiss and the topic will be “The ERI”

Adjunct Pay Schedules

October 12, 2010 / Calvin S. / 1 Comment

Below are the list of pay dates for CUNY schools. Take note, Senior colleges (4 year) pay is on different dates than Community colleges (2 year). If you have NOT received a pay check or continually receive late pay, you MUST go to Human Resources and/or Payroll to find out what the issue is and why you are not receiving your pay check on time.

If you cannot get in touch with anyone at your CUNY school, you can contact us at the Adjunct Project to help assist you. We are here for YOU!

SENIOR COLLEGES:
September 9, 2010
September 23, 2010
October 7, 2010
October 21, 2010
November 4, 2010
November 18, 2010
December 2, 2010
December 16, 2010
December 30, 2010

COMMUNITY COLLEGES*:
September 3, 2010
September 17, 2010
October 1, 2010
October 15, 2010
October 29, 2010
November 12, 2010
November 26, 2010
December 10, 2010
December 23, 2010
*Except Kingsborough and LaGuardia

Important Union Meeting: NOVEMBER 4TH!!!

September 29, 2010 / adjunctproject / 1 Comment

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!!!!!!!!!! Continue reading

What are your demands for the upcoming union contract between the PSC and CUNY?

September 17, 2010 / Alyson S. / 1 Comment

Hi everyone. The PSC Executive Council met last night to discuss contract demands. The AP was asked to send a list of grad student-specific demands, so based on topics that came up at our first meeting and on conversations we’ve been having with various members, I sent the following list:

“1) Minimum three-year contracts for adjuncts, with documented reasons for non-reappointment and a system of seniority.
2) Wage increase of $30 per credit hour for adjuncts; equivalent for grad fellows and other contingent titles. Step raises every year.
3) Comprehensive employer-paid health insurance on par with municipal workers for all contingent employees.
4) Promotional series, real job security and due process for HEOs.

In addition to these, the students we have talked to are also very much concerned with the current and pressing issues of late pay for many adjuncts across CUNY campuses, as well as layoffs/non-reappointment of adjuncts for no documented reason. Other concerns include class size increases (with no correlative pay increase for larger classes, including for “jumbo” classes), ongoing difficulty in obtaining adjunct waivers to teach classes beyond the “9/6″ workload, the limitations of NYSHIP, and the lack of maternity/parental and sick leave for Graduate Assistant As, Bs, and Cs.”

The first four demands listed here are from the AP/CCU contract demands petition. If you haven’t signed that petition PLEASE DO SO HERE: www.petitiononline.com/demands. The other demands are concerns we’ve been hearing since the beginning of the semester. When the demands are formalized, I will also include that GTFs should be able to receive ADJ/CET Professional Development Fund Grants.

Are there any other demands you’d like to see added to this list before the negotiations begin??? Please email theadjunctproject@gmail.com if there are other things you think should be included here.

Alyson

October 7th: National Day of Actions to Defend Public Education

September 17, 2010 / Alyson S. / 0 Comments

http://www.defendeducation.org/