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The Professional Staff Congress or PSC CUNY is a
trade union A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages ...
that represents faculty and professional staff of the
City University of New York The City University of New York (CUNY, pronounced , ) is the Public university, public university system of Education in New York City, New York City. It is the largest urban university system in the United States, comprising 25 campuses: eleven ...
campuses. As of 2018, the PSC represented 30,000 faculty and staff members at CUNY.


History

PSC was co-founded by Israel Kugler and Belle Zeller on April 14, 1972, as a merger between United Federation of College Teachers and its rival the Legislative Conference of the City University. Zeller served as president, and Kugler as deputy president of the PSC after its formation. CUNY challenged the right of the PSC to represent its faculty, forcing the PSC into a second election. The PSC won this second election on June 7, 1972. After a year of negotiations and a threatened strike, CUNY consented to a three-year
collective bargaining Collective bargaining is a process of negotiation between employers and a group of employees aimed at agreements to regulate working salaries, working conditions, benefits, and other aspects of workers' compensation and labour rights, rights for ...
agreement.


Affiliations

It is affiliated with the
American Federation of Teachers The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) is the second largest teacher's labor union in America (the largest being the National Education Association). The union was founded in Chicago. John Dewey and Margaret Haley were founders. About 60 pe ...
(Local No. 2334) and the Central Labor Council. It is also a member of the
American Association of University Professors The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is an organization of professors and other academics in the United States that was founded in 1915 in New York City and is currently headquartered in Washington, D.C. AAUP membership inc ...
and
New York State United Teachers New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) is a nearly 700,000-member New York (state), New York state teachers union, affiliated since 2006 with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the AFL–CIO, and the National Education Association (NEA). ...
.


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