Rank-n-file opposition to the tentative agreement between the #CaliforniaFacultyAssociation #union and the #CSU system has been steadily building, after union leadership called-off the week-long scheduled #strike after less than one day.
https://www.kqed.org/news/11973654/sfsu-faculty-union-rallies-against-csu-deal-urges-no-vote
30,000 California State University professors, librarians, coaches and other workers reached a tentative contract agreement with the university system, ending their planned week-long walkout to demand higher wages
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/23/cal-state-faculty-strike-tentative-deal
#CFAOnStrike #CaliforniaFacultyAssociation #CalState #LibraryUnions #LibraryWorkers #LibraryLabor
The California Faculty Association, which represents 29,000 professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors and coaches, began a five-day strike that will affect nearly 460,000 students who attend the nation’s largest four-year public university system
🔗 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/22/us/csu-california-faculty-strike.html
#CFAOnStrike #CaliforniaFacultyAssociation #CalState #LibraryUnions #LibraryWorkers #LibraryLabor
Welp, tomorrow is the first day of the Spring semester. And in about nine hours, members of my union (the California Faculty Association, which represents all faculty, librarians, counselors, and athletic coaches in the 23 campus CSU system ... a total of about 29,000 employees) go on a five-day strike (a.k.a., work stoppage) to protest management's failure to address requests/demands aimed at improving working conditions.
This will be the nation's largest ever strike of higher education employees.
During the strike, I'll spend some time walking the picket line and ignoring my work email and voice mail. The balance of the time will be spent studying for my Amateur Extra amateur radio license exam and playing Minecraft, I think.
When the #ChicoState chapter of the California Faculty Association (#CFA_United) goes on #strike this coming week (Jan 22-26), we'll be holding daily, noon-time "encuentros" (rallies), with open-mics to talk about #issues. A march/action will follow!
(Please post #CaliforniaFacultyAssociation plans at other campuses during the strike)
... strike by 55,000 education workers and scuttling a general strike movement which threatened to bring down the hated Ford government. Niles Niemuth ...
Despite having the ability to call out 29,000 faculty members at all locations following a 95 percent strike authorization vote, the California Faculty Association has limited the action to four token one-day strikes at separate campuses.#CSU #CaliforniaStateuniversity #CaliforniaFacultyAssociation #CFA #Teamsters #libranet.de/search?tag=
Thousands of California State University faculty begin limited four-day strike
95% of the voting members of the #CaliforniaFacultyAssociation #union (representing the largest higher education system in the US) voted to authorize a #strike against #CalState. This is an amazing level of support for a work-stoppage. This vote illustrates just how fed-up workers are with the CSU administration & how we feel this is a critical moment to take action to defend public higher education in California. The US labor movement is on the move at the moment--and now we are too!
My first strike vote! Let's do this 🔥
#CaliforniaFacultyAssociation #CaliforniaStateUniversity #CSU #Strike
My employer, #ChicoState has released a report based on its "campus climate" survey. There's quite a few telling items in it, representative of widespread frustration across the #CaliforniaStateUniversity system, which has culminated in the collective bargaining stalemate with the #CaliforniaFacultyAssociation and administrators.
[Thread & graphs follows]
The survey was collected from April 27 through May 15, 2023, which resulted in a 41% response rate for faculty.
https://www.csuchico.edu/ir/_assets/documents/campus-climate-survey-2023-report.pdf
From the #CaliforniaFacultyAssociation #union: "During the 2016–17 academic year, a state audit determined that BOTH the headcount & compensation of management personnel at California State University had significantly outpaced all other employment categories. #DoBetterCSU". https://www.cfabargaining.org/
"Today, students drown in debt to receive a #CSU education, and many faculty are paid significantly less than K–12 teachers. Meanwhile, the highest payouts, along with free housing and car payments, go to those who neither teach nor do research." #CFA #CaliforniaFacultyAssociation #CalFac
