On this page, faculty can find information you need about participating in and honoring the one-day strike called for November 17 at CSU East Bay and CSU Dominguez Hills. Please bookmark and check back for more information as it becomes available.

Click Here to Read Message from CFA President Lillian Taiz to CSU Trustees, Nov 16, 2011: Why Faculty Will Strike

For faculty at CSU East Bay and CSU Dominguez Hills

• FAQ for EB and DH
• Note of Clarification for EB
• We Will Take a Stand handout for East Bay/Dominguez Hills (distributed at information pickets)
• Handout for students in your classes about the strike (optional informational handout for faculty who want materials to educate their students about the strike)

For faculty at ALL OTHER CAMPUSES

• Info for where to get on the bus to go to East Bay or Dominguez Hills
• FAQ for other campuses
• We Will Take a Stand handout for OTHER campuses

General Information for ALL FACULTY

• What is this strike about? Fact Sheet
• Strike Announcement: November 7 Press Release
• Strike Announcement: November 7 Notice to Faculty
• Background information: Other Resources, Flyers, & Materials
• Background information: Fact-Finding Report and Recommendations regarding unpaid raises
• Bargaining Updates: from the CFA Bargaining Team 
• How to Use Twitter and Facebook
• Day of November 17 Handout
• Change in CSU Salaries & Student Fees, 1998-2010

Haven’t voted yet?  Vote here

Messages of Support

See the latest news release about these messages of support:

• CSU Employees Union
• Academic Professionals of California (CSU)
• American Association of University Professors
• California Teachers Association
• Assemblymember Richard Pan
• SEIU California
• Mary Kay Henry, SEIU National
• Gary Rhoades, Director, Center for the Future of HIgher Education
• UAW Local 4123 (CSU Teaching Assistants)
• Berkeley Faculty Association
• Eliseo Medina, Secretary-Treasurer, SEIU 
• San Diego Faculty Association
• Council of UC Faculty Assocations
• New Faculty Majority
• Dennis Van Roekel, President, NEA
• AAUP – Portland State University Chapter
• UC Riverside Faculty Association
• AAUP – Eastern Michican University Chapter
• Council of UC Faculty Associations
• Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts
• United Faculty of Washington State
• ASPCUF – Pennsylvania
• United University Professions, New York
• AAUP Michigan
• San Francisco Labor Council
• AFT Local 1521A (College Staff Guild)
• University of Santa Cruz Faculty Association
• Senator Leland Yee
• California Labor Federation
• California Teachers Association
• California Professional Firefighters
• Part-time Faculty, Columbia College Chicago
• American Federation of Teachers of Washington
• University of Vermont
• Assemblymember Das Williams
• Professional Staff Congress of CUNY
• American Federation of Teachers
• United Faculty of Florida
• California School Employees Association
• CSU DH Academic Senate
• CSU DH Departments – various
• Florida A&M University Chapter of the United Faculty of Florida
• Cerritos College Faculty Federation (CCFF)
• Senator Lonnie Hancock
• University of Massachusetts-Boston

Messages of support via Email, Twitter and Facebook have come from many more, including:

• AFSCME Local 1117 (City of Torrance)  
• Mike Gipson, Carson City Council
• Association of State College & University Faculties (Pennsylvania) 
• Mary Kay Henry, President, Service Employees International Union    
• Oakland Education Association
• Faculty at Cuesta College
• Kent Wong (Vice President, California Federation of Teachers)
• SEIU Local 1021
• AFSCME Local 3299 (UC)
• Castro Valley CTA
• Hayward High School MEChA
• Assemblymember Jim Beall
• Occupy L.A.
• California School Employees Association
• Alameda Central Labor Council
• Los Angeles Federation of Labor
• Berkeley Faculty Association (AAUP)
• Student CTA
• United Educators of San Francisco
• California Community College Association

Forward your messages, emails, tweets of support to cfa@calfac.org

Links to News Coverage of Strike

• View here

Editorials / Op Eds

• Mercury News Editorial: CSU faculty strike looks reasonable in light of the perks enjoyed by administrators
• Oakland Tribune Editorial: Teachers at CSU East Bay have no choice but to strike
• Oakland Tribune Editorial: CSU needs to be more equitable on faculty pay policy

Banners & Signs to Download

• Day of November 17 Handout
• I Dont Want to Strike Logo
• Yard Sign
• Picket Sign
• Strike Sanction Sign (Alameda) (Los Angeles)
• Horizontal Banner (20′)
• Horizontal Banner (10′)