The Taylor Law: What is it? How can we fight it? скачать в хорошем качестве

The Taylor Law: What is it? How can we fight it?

In the face of layoffs, increasing class sizes, unsafe working conditions, and raises being withheld, our union (the Professional Staff Congress, aka PSC) has passed a strike readiness resolution. Since then, PSC members have experienced further assaults by the administration, including the withholding of contractual raises for some of our most vulnerable members. In building towards strike readiness we wanted to discuss and prepare for the challenges that New York state's Taylor Law poses to public sector worker strikes. This March 10th panel, co-organized with our comrades at The CUNY Adjunct Project, focused on learning about this law and how the PSC and other public sector unions have approached strike readiness. The panel presentation was followed by open discussion (we had two sessions of the event and have included the discussion piece from both of the sessions in this video). Speakers: Arthur Schwartz was General Counsel for TWU Local 100 during the 2005 transit strike and was also General Counsel for the PSC in the early 2000s. He is currently running for New York City Council in District 3. Tina Moore is the Chair of the PSC’s Hunter College Campus School chapter, whose members voted overwhelmingly this fall to authorize a strike if safety precautions were not put in place. Marc Kagan is a graduate student and an Adjunct at Lehman College. His dissertation on TWU Local 100 spans the two transit strikes of 1980 and 2005. The afternoon session was moderated by Sofya Aptekar and the evening session by Claudia Shacter-deChabert (both of the School of Labor and Urban Studies). The Graduate Center PSC Chapter: https://psccunygc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ The CUNY Adjunct Project: https://cunyadjunctproject.org/