CUNY full-time faculty , adjunct faculty and staffers were dealt another blow this year after the city’s public university system quietly decided to defer a promised 2% annual salary increase. Last year, leadership from the faculty union, the Professional Staff Congress, and CUNY settled on a five-year-long contract that would increase adjunct pay by up to 71% through three different means; an hourly pay rate increase by 2% starting in the spring of 2020, securing paid office hours and increased hourly rate based on a single-pay rate scheduled to start in 2022. PSC represents over 30,000 full-time and part-time adjunct faculty and staff at CUNY and the CUNY Research Foundation.
