CUNY professors sue ‘anti-Semitic and anti-Israel’ union

A bunch of CUNY professors have sued the college's union, Skilled Workers Congress.
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Six Metropolis College of New York professors have slammed the college’s union as “anti-Semitic, anti-Jewish, and anti-Israel” in a lawsuit.

The academics are pressured to pay dues to the Skilled Workers Congress and say they soured on the group in June, after it issued a decision of help for the Palestinian individuals, in keeping with their Manhattan Federal Court docket submitting.

“For the reason that decision, PSC has continued to advocate positions and take actions [the professors] imagine to be anti-Semitic, anti-Jewish, and anti-Israel,” they declare in courtroom papers.

5 of the professors are Jewish. They are saying now not need to be pressured to make use of the PSC as their “unique bargaining agent,” or pay dues.

PSC didn't instantly return a request for remark. A CUNY spokesperson referred The Publish to a 2021 assertion from Chancellor Felix Matos Rodriguez, by which he insisted that such organizations “converse for themselves.”

CUNY’s chancellor launched an announcement final 12 months saying the union’s opinions don’t symbolize the views of the college.

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“The opinions or positions they categorical are completely theirs and don't essentially symbolize the views of the Metropolis College of New York. Actually, their statements might not all the time symbolize the views of lots of their very own members,” he continued.