May 5 march to demand good education & contract

The Professional Staff Congress, American Federation of Teachers Local 2334, has called for a rally on May 5, beginning at 4 p.m. at New York City’s City Hall and then marching to the Borough of Manhattan Community College on Chambers Street in lower Manhattan.

The PSC represents about 20,000 faculty and some of the staff at the City University of New York, a large urban university with 23 campuses and more than 250,000 students. The students are the daughters and sons of workers or themselves members of the working class in New York City and are predominantly Black, Latino/a and/or immigrants.

The union is calling for all its members, and CUNY staff and students to come out.

Its Web page says: “We will be demanding a good contract, an end to economic austerity for CUNY, and a restoration of CUNY’s public funding. Our working conditions are our students’ learning conditions; when we stand up for a good contract we are standing up for the quality of education at our public university.”

The PSC endorsed and had a strong contingent in a March 24 march on Wall Street and has endorsed May 12 protests on Wall Street.