A new document from CFA spotlights the priorities that Chancellor Reed chooses to pursue with the CSU resources at his disposal.

After the Chancellor refused to pay previously-negotiated faculty salary increases for 2008/09 and 2009/10, two neutral "Fact Finders" disagreed with his claim that he couldn't afford to pay any of the raises.

Our new document, "Chancellor Reed's Inconvenient Truths (or, 23 likely reasons why the neutral parties agreed with CFA)," sheds light on what the Chancellor could afford to pay and what expenditures the Chancellor chose to prioritize instead of prioritizing his commitments to the faculty.

As you will read, it's about priorities. The Chancellor finds money to fund his priorities -- and Chancellor Reed is choosing not to prioritize the faculty.

Our task -- through our Strike Authorization effort -- is to change the Chancellor's priorities.

Here are a few examples from Chancellor Reed's Inconvenient Truths (or, 23 likely reasons why the neutral parties agreed with CFA):

Reason #5: "In 2008/09 and 2009/10, Chancellor Reed spent approximately $6 million to award Equity and other raises to around 550 management employees. Now he rejects a second third-party recommendation to spend the same amount to provide modest equity increases to almost 2,900 faculty members who are eligible for the equity program that he refuses to honor."

Reason #17: "Last year, Chancellor Reed found another $2 million to extend a contract he made with outside labor consultants C. Richard Barnes and Associates, LLC. Reed pays Barnes and his associates to negotiate against faculty on his behalf, even though he has fully-staffed Human Resources and Labor Relations departments."

Reason #18: "Since 2006, Reed has spent $6.6 million on contracts with C. Richard Barnes and Associates, LLC. Last December, he gave them a raise increasing their daily rate 5% to $4,209 per day. Barnes and his employees are expected to work 154 days this year. In addition, Barnes provides a full-time consultant (paid in excess of $21,000 per month) to run the Chancellor's Labor Relations department in Long Beach."

Reason #11: "In October 2008, Chancellor Reed voluntarily returned $31.3 million of the CSU's state funds while at the same time he refused to pay faculty any raises negotiated for 2008/09. A 2% general salary increase was estimated to cost about the same amount."

To read all 23 of the reasons, you can download "Chancellor Reed's Inconvenient Truths (or, 23 likely reasons why the neutral parties agreed with CFA)" at this link:
http://www.calfac.org/sites/main/files/file-attachments/inconvenient_v5_final.pdf