Post Janus v. AFSCME: PSC-CUNY Union Loses Thousands of Agency Fee Payers

by P.D. Lesko A recent report challenging the membership numbers of the Professional Staff Congress in the City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) union revealed that several thousand of the union’s members, primarily agency fee payers, have stopped paying dues thanks to the 2018 U.S. Supreme Court Janus ruling. The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in Janus v. AFSCME that nonunion workers cannot be forced to pay fees to public sector unions. In July 2019, a CUNY faculty member accused PSC-CUNY long-time President Barbara Bowen of inflating union rolls by more than 20 percent. A poll commissioned by TeacherFreedom.org in 2019, revealed that […]