Academy for Academic Personnel Administration
Fall 2003
Round Table Report
1. Institution Information
The City University of New York
Name of Individual Responding:
Raymond F. O’Brien
Title of Individual Responding:
Senior University Director of University Labor Relations
2a. Description of Faculty Bargaining Unit(s) – Size and Composition
Full-Time Faculty: 5,767
Part-Time Faculty: 10,649
Administrative Staff: 3,273
The Professional Staff Congress/CUNY (PSC)
1972
Number of Succeeding Contracts:
Ten
3. Activity Report (e.g., status of current agreement or negotiations, details of last contract settlement, etc.):
The 2000-2002 PSC/CUNY collective bargaining agreement expired on October 31, 2002. We are in negotiations for a successor agreement.
4. Special or noteworthy happenings (e.g., relevant arbitration or court decisions, organizing campaigns, labor agency decisions, etc.)
1. The PSC is actively campaigning to organize employees at The City University of New York Research Foundation. The NLRB ruled that the University’s Research Foundation was a private sector entity governed by the NLRA.
2. The City University negotiated its first contract with IATSE covering stagehands at three of its colleges’ theatres.
5. Special happenings related to fiscal issues (e.g., salary reductions, health and dental insurance costs, reductions in force, early retirement programs, program consolidation or elimination, etc.):
1. The City University had a retirement incentive in January 2003, under which 311 faculty retired.
2. From February 2003 until September 2003, the University had a hiring freeze on non-instructional positions.
3. In June 2003, the Board of Trustees approved a tuition increase of $800 for full-time undergraduate resident students in the senior colleges and $300 for full-time resident students in the community colleges. In the community colleges, this tuition increase will support additional hiring of full-time faculty and academic support personnel.
4. The Welfare Fund modified dental, prescription, and life insurance benefits, increasing employee costs.