Professional
Staff Congress - City University of New York (PSC-CUNY)
Executive Council
CEW
SUPPORT RESOLUTION
Submitted by PSC Delegate Assembly Part Time Personnel Committee to
Executive Council -Sept 5, 2003 & SO APPROVED. It was submitted
to the Delegate Assembly on Sept 25 and passed unanimously.
RESOLUTION
ON CAMPUS EQUITY WEEK
WHEREAS October 27-31, 2003 will be a week of coordinated
activities on campuses in the U.S., Canada and Mexico called Campus
Equity Week (CEW).
WHEREAS CUNY has over 9500 part time workers in its
collective bargaining unit, including teaching and non teaching adjuncts,
grad fellows, and CLTs, many of whom have served the university for
decades.
WHEREAS CEW is a week dedicated to educate our campus
communities, the public and policymakers about the desirability and
efficacy of equitable labor policies and standards that encourage
fairness and dignity for all members of the campus community.
WHEREAS
failure to extend to all faculty professional conditions, a living
wage and respect compromises the quality of education in the university
and risks academic freedom, the stability of the profession, and the
integrity of our standing with students and the community.
WHEREAS CEW is part of a growing movement among working
people from all walks of life seeking to address inequities of contingent
work.
Be it resolved that the PSC supports Campus Equity
Week and will mobilize its full and part-time members to join together
in creative ways to implement fairness to contingent workers, through
such projects as:
• supporting the PSC contract demands for contingent workers,
including seniority, parity, and job security,
• adhering to provisions and guidelines articulated by AFT,
AAUP, MLA and other professional groups regarding treatment of adjuncts,
•
creating Adjunct Walls of Fame to counteract the tendency toward
invisibility and demeaning stereotypes and devaluation,
•
calling on governance bodies to develop policies for inclusion of
contingent workers in governance,