@RanknFileAction

Rank & file activists at CUNY challenging the culture of racist austerity in higher education and demanding a more democratic fighting union. #WhyRAFA?

 New York, NY
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Joined March 2019
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Strong unions do not accept weak contracts! (1/2)
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zoë hu@z_hu__17 Dec 2024
But I am still excited by rank-and-file efforts to form a new caucus, organize each other, and dedicate themselves to ending business as usual. The labor movement in the US is accelerating and strengthening. Our union and our workers need a change.
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zoë hu@z_hu__17 Dec 2024
I think the situation is bleak and that union leadership is effectively managing the decline of one of our country’s great public universities. They have that on their hands, and on their consciences. 9/
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zoë hu@z_hu__17 Dec 2024
I remember I went to a union press conference once, after Queens College laid off ~30 full-time faculty. Our union selected roughly nine politicians to speak. I think one actual worker who had been fired spoke. No one got their job back. 8/
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zoë hu@z_hu__17 Dec 2024
Public sector unions are a different beast, but this is all a result of union leadership’s lack of an organizing strategy. Our union prioritizes relationships with city and state politicians who are under their own constraints. They don’t know how to mobilize rank and file. 7/
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zoë hu@z_hu__17 Dec 2024
During roughly two years of bargaining, the PSC only raised graduate worker demands at the table once. It didn’t advance most graduate demands. There’s unfortunately no other way to describe it than that our union threw graduate students under the bus. 6/
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zoë hu@z_hu__17 Dec 2024
The contract would give graduate students 37k in 2028. Lol. 5/
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zoë hu@z_hu__17 Dec 2024
The contract does not lock in any remote work rights, which have become a given in other union contracts. This means workers are held hostage to management’s whims about when they can work remotely. 4/
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zoë hu@z_hu__17 Dec 2024
It represents a downgrade in provisions for adjunct job security. We are worse off than under our last contract. And it has CUNY adjuncts making 7k per course at the end of the five year contract. 7k was our union’s demand during its last round of bargaining, six years ago. 3/
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zoë hu@z_hu__17 Dec 2024
The contract locks us in to an average of 2.8 percent annual raises for five years — after we suffered historic inflation during the early years of the pandemic, which we did not earn raises for. This is effectively a paycut. 2/
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zoë hu@z_hu__17 Dec 2024
After almost two years of bargaining, CUNY’s faculty and staff union is nearing a deal on a contract. I spent two years as a rep for the union. I cannot vote yes on this contract — which furthers austerity at CUNY and signals to admin that our union is weak and incompetent. 1/
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⚠️⚠️ A TA from @PSC_CUNY is imminent and we are not happy with what we’re hearing! Petition for 8k/class and 3-yr contracts for adjuncts here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F… Read more of our analysis here: eomail6.com/web-version?p=e1…

Statement of the Platform Committee of the Committee for Adjuncts and Part-Time Personnel (CAP) on...

The Principles we follow are laid down in the Vision for Equity for Adjunct Faculty and Part-Timer Personnel. These principles advocate that the contract move toward one faculty, one staff, one CUNY:...

docs.google.com
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@Cuny4P @cunyonstrike @QcUnite @PHEWnetwork @MOREcaucusUFT
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CUNY On Strike Campaign@cunyonstrike9 Dec 2024
“We require the following in a tentative agreement: 1. Minimum of $8k per 3-credit course at the beginning of the contract    2. 3-year multi-year appointments in the contract with improved eligibility and a minimum of 6 credits each semester.”
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CUNY On Strike Campaign@cunyonstrike9 Dec 2024
**PSC Members Only** the Platform Committee of the PSC Committee of Adjuncts and Part Timers has released a statement and petition concerning the state of bargaining over adjunct demands. Please read and consider signing if you agree forms.gle/vR8UzhCnDQoqxMsg8

Statement of the Platform Committee of the Committee for Adjuncts and Part-Time Personnel (CAP) on...

The Principles we follow are laid down in the Vision for Equity for Adjunct Faculty and Part-Timer Personnel. These principles advocate that the contract move toward one faculty, one staff, one CUNY:...

docs.google.com
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Curious about the status of PSC contract negotiations and their impact on adjuncts? Let’s talk! Please join the Guttman PSC Chapter this Wednesday 6 pm at Franklin Park in Brooklyn! 🎄💫
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@Cuny4P @QcUnite @GCAdjuncts @cunyfsjp @cunyonstrike
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CUNY4Palestine@Cuny4P3 Dec 2024
Join CUNY organizers for an info session on TRS investments & divestment campaign in preparation of supporting the TRS divestment resolution in the PSC! 📆Thurs, Dec 5 ⏱️6:30pm on zoom Register here: zoom.us/meeting/register/tJI… More info & sign here: trsnycdivest.com/
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Civil disobedience today; strike escalation tomorrow. @cunyonstrike
PSC/CUNY@PSC_CUNY21 Oct 2024
Join us TODAY! Protest at the CUNY Board of Tristees meeting! 4pm at John Jay College >> psc-cuny.org/OCT21 << Contract for #APeoplesCUNY
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