Professors Arrested at Union Protest

MANHATTAN, October 21

More than 30 City University of New York (CUNY) faculty and staff, calling for higher pay and better working conditions, were arrested during a protest outside John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Members of the union had attended a CUNY Board of Trustees meeting at the college. But the meeting ended abruptly when PSC CUNY President James Davis, a Brooklyn College professor, tried to speak. He was told that he couldn’t speak because he hadn’t signed the speakers’ list. When the meeting ended, professors and staff blocked the 10th Avenue entrance to the college. The NYPD asked them to leave and a loudspeaker announcement told protestors they would be arrested if they did not leave.

The arrests were peaceful as James Davis and other professors and staff members were led away with their hands in zip-ties behind their backs.