On November 13th, Amazon announced that New York state and city politicians have pledged up to $3 billion in tax incentives to fund its new headquarters in Long Island City. That same day, CUNY Board of Trustees Chair William Thompson
Toward a Just Contract—The Zine!
Last fall, the Adjunct Project launched its “Toward a Just Contract” campaign, orienting our events and programming around the question of contract justice taken as broadly as possible. As a final project for the semester, we put together a zine
Non-Negotiable: Adjunct Parity in the Next PSC-CUNY Contract
Since the fall, the Adjunct Project has been working in coalition with CUNY Struggle and the adjunct committee of the Graduate Center’s Professional Staff Congress chapter to amplify and organize around the need to achieve adjunct parity in the next
Toward a Just Contract in 2017: A Roundtable on Critical Issues
Today the Adjunct Project hosts our first formal event of the academic year, the kick-off to our “Toward a Just Contract in 2017” series we’ll be presenting through the current CUNY-PSC contract’s expiration in November 2017. For this event, we’re focusing on
7 Reasons We Advocate a ‘No’ Vote on the Tentative Contract
On Thursday, June 16th, the Professional Staff Congress (PSC) announced it had reached a tentative contract with CUNY management, and the following evening it released a summary of the contract’s details. By Wednesday, June 22nd, the “memorandum of agreement” providing
The Adjunct Project Endorses the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions
The Adjunct Project endorses the Resolution Endorsing the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions, scheduled to be voted on at the April 15 plenary meeting of the Doctoral Students’ Council (DSC) at the Graduate Center, CUNY. This resolution responds to a
The Adjunct Project Endorses a Strike (and Related Organizing)
Since the beginning of this academic year, there has been talk of a strike as the only way to ensure a decent contract with CUNY management, which the Professional Staff Congress (PSC) has been steadily bargaining with since June 2014
From the Archives: Confronting the Taylor Law (2011)
[The following text is courtesy of GC student Conor Tomás Reed.] On May 4, 2011, the CUNY Adjunct Project hosted the event “‘What Do You Mean I Can’t Strike?’: Confronting the Taylor Law” (full video here) featuring the speakers Cindy
We Are Workers: Graduate Worker Day of Action—GC Edition!
Join the CUNY Adjunct Project, graduate workers from different GC programs, and graduate-worker officers of the GC PSC chapter, to discuss our unique role in the academic-labor system as simultaneously students and academic workers. Thursday, October 15, room 5414. Lunch provided
USS Overwhelmingly Passes Resolution in Support of CUNY Adjuncts
On September 27th, the University Student Senate, which is comprised of delegates from all CUNY campuses, overwhelmingly approved (with only one abstention) a resolution in support of adjunct faculty. The statement points to the vital role part-time faculty play in
