Today the Supreme Court announced the expected impasse on Friedrichs vs California Teachers Association: “The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it was unable to resolve a major challenge to organized labor, and the result was a defeat for a group of California teachers who claim their free speech rights are violated when they are forced…
BY HANK REICHMAN Things just got a lot more difficult for California State University management and the system’s lugubrious Chancellor Tim White. For months the California Faculty Association (CFA), an AAUP affiliate representing 26,000 faculty members in the 23-campus system, has been saying that CSU teachers are long overdue and highly deserving of a 5%…
COCAL is the Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor, a nearly 20 year old network of contingent activists and their organizations that does a conference (now tri-national – USA, CAN (including QBC) , and MEX) every other year, usually in August. It also sponsors a listserv, called ADJ-L, and has an International Advisory Committee and a…
The following message was sent today by the California Faculty Association (CFA) to faculty in the California State University (CSU) system: March 24, 2016 Dear Colleague, The fact-finding report and recommendations regarding our bargaining with the CSU management will be made public on Monday, March 28. On that day, we will share the contents of…
BY HANK REICHMAN Last week shortly before I left for Washington, D.C. to attend meetings of the AAUP Foundation Board and the AAUP Executive Committee, I learned that California State University (CSU) Chancellor Timothy White would be addressing a breakfast there hosted by the California State Society, “a social networking organization” serving Californians in the…
BY HANK REICHMAN City College of San Francisco (CCSF) faculty members were arrested on Friday while protesting the current direction of labor contract negotiations. Dozens of teachers were taken into custody in downtown San Francisco following a march and rally that ended with a sit-in that blocked the office door of Jeff Sloan, the chief negotiator…
BY HANK REICHMAN With the countdown to what would be the largest strike of university faculty in U.S. history ticking away, California Faculty Association (CFA) leaders rebuked Chancellor Tim White and CSU Trustees Tuesday for failing to resolve the contract dispute with their faculty. The Trustees’ meeting March 8 and 9 was the last public…
BY MARTIN KICH In the face of opposition from the Democrats and the Republicans in the state legislature, not to mention Governor Malloy, the Connecticut state senate’s vote on the contract between UConn and UCPEA was postponed on a technicality: “‘There was an inadvertent error in the supercedence appendix attached to the collective bargaining agreement…
A Report on the Graduate Worker Day of Action, 15th October, 2015 by Abhishek Bhattacharyya (University of Chicago), Anthony Levenda (Portland State University), and Matthew Canfield (New York University) In the September-October 2015 issue of Academe, Prof. David Schultz wrote about the fertile conditions for faculty unionization, and the “The Rise and the Coming Demise…
BY HANK REICHMAN Support continues to build for the California Faculty Association (CFA)’s “Fight for Five.” The union, an AAUP affiliate representing 26,000 faculty, librarians, counselors and coaches in the 23-campus California State University system, has vowed to walk out for five days in mid-April if agreement is not reached on a salary settlement. CFA…