CFA leaders from the two campuses that struck for one day in November addressed the CSU Trustees at their meeting Wednesday at the Chancellor’s Golden Shore Headquarters.

Jennifer Eagan, president of the CFA chapter at CSU East Bay, said the Trustees are only hearing from “a one-man show,” referring to Chancellor Reed. She said in order to make the best policies that can steer the CSU through tough times, they must end “extravagance at the top and cuts at the bottom” and she advised them to “listen to the faculty—we are your eyes and ears on the ground.”

Eagan also advised the Trustees that, “The conditions that motivated the East Bay and Dominguez Hills faculty to strike on November 17 and for faculty from all other 21 campuses to join us on the picket line are still alive” and that the Trustees must focus on these. “People you wouldn't expect to do so keep asking me ‘What's next? We're ready to go,’” she said.

Vivian Price, CFA chapter secretary-treasurer at CSU Dominguez Hills, warned the Trustees that “by disinvesting in the faculty” by putting an unfair burden on Lecturers and increasing class sizes “you are disinvesting in students.” She said faculty action is motivated by “hiring practices and working conditions that are deteriorating” even as enrollment grows.