PSU-AAUP Solidarity

On Thursday, March 21st PSU-AAUP rank-and-file members and elected leaders joined PCC classified staff for a practice picket. Through PCCFCE members’ robust participation and strike vote, they won: 

• Year 1: 6% COLA (Retroactive to July 1, 2023)
• Year 2: 8% COLA (Effective July 1, 2024)
• 3% step increases for employees who are not “topped out” (Retroactive to July 1, 2023)
• Automatic steps in the future, even if they’re still negotiating when the contract expires
• One-time $1,000 ratification bonus

Longevity pay to qualifying recipients upon contract ratification, and then at each milestone of continuous service
20 Years: $500
25 Years: $750
30 Years: $1,000
35 Years: $1,250

Chattanooga worker solidarity

PSU-AAUP members extended solidarity with workers in Chattanooga who voted in a landslide Friday to form the first new US auto workers union since the 1970s. Joseph McCartin, a labor historian at Georgetown, described a victory by Chattanooga workers in the Guardian, “[T]he biggest breakthrough in private-sector organizing in decades. It would mean that the anti-union citadel [in the south] that has repulsed effort after organizing effort has been breached.”