Progress in CSU Contract Fight

Today the administration of the California State University (CSU) and the leadership of the California Faculty Association (CFA) released the following statement: Faculty Union & CSU Announce 48-Hour Blackout on Strike Preparations, News & Communication ** Blackout period to allow negotiations to continue without interruption **   (April 6, 2016) —There is hope that talks…

Fact-Finder Rules for CFA; Strike Looms

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%…

CFA-CSU Fact-Finder Report to be Released on Monday

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…

Chancellor White Turns Back on Faculty

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…

My Questions for Chancellor White

BY HANK REICHMAN On February 29, California State University (CSU) Chancellor Tim White visited the CSU East Bay campus and addressed a public meeting of faculty, staff and students.  White was greeted by some 40 student and faculty demonstrators who later joined others in the audience.  As readers of this blog know, the CSU faculty…

CA Democrats Endorse CFA’s “Fight for Five”

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…

CFA Announces Dates of Potential CSU Strike

The following statement was released today by the California Faculty Association (CFA), an AAUP affiliate representing some 26,000 faculty members at all 23 campuses of the California State University system.  Today the California Faculty Association announced that its Board of Directors has set dates of a potential strike on all 23 campuses of the California…

Fighting for Five With the CFA

Yesterday more than a thousand California State University (CSU) faculty members, students, and their supporters marched through Long Beach, California to the CSU Office of the Chancellor, where the CSU Board of Trustees was meeting, to rally and voice their support for the California Faculty’s Association’s “Fight for Five.”  After years of declining real salaries,…

Fight for Five in the CSU!

Tomorrow members and supporters of the AAUP-affiliated California Faculty Association will gather at the California State University Chancellor’s Office, where the CSU Board of Trustees will be meeting, to urge the trustees and their Chancellor, Timothy White, to meet the faculty’s demand for a much-belated and even more-deserved salary increase. It’s not too late to…