As CFA’s contract expiration date approaches, the Bargaining Team
is continuing its work to get back to the negotiation table with
CSU management. An intensive two-day strategy and planning
session will take place at the Union’s Sacramento headquarters
office later this week. Meanwhile, Bargaining Team members are
partnering with chapter leaders and members of the statewide
Contract Development and Bargaining Strategy Committee to bring
survey results and bargaining updates to all of the 23 CSU
campuses this spring term.
CFA leaders at San Jose State University are attempting to
address promotion and tenure denials to a disproportionately high
number of women of color. Unfortunately, SJSU management has
sought to interfere with our legally protected rights to do so.
After months of discussion and dissection, the CSU Board of
Trustees voted to move forward on a plan to require a fourth year
of quantitative reasoning for admission.
CFA members from all 23 CSU campuses converged in Sacramento last
week for a series of leadership meetings and the 2020 Spring
Leadership Kickoff event.
CFA President Charles Toombs and CFA Vice President and
Bargaining Team Chair Kevin Wehr gave formal notice to CSU
management yesterday of our intent to initiate the collective
bargaining process. This happened at the CSU Board of Trustees
meeting in Long Beach, where both sides submitted what are also
known as “sunshine” proposals.
Around 200 faculty activists met in Los Angeles for three days of
meetings and CFA’s semi-annual Assembly of delegates. These are
some of the images from the weekend weekend.
Both at the Fall Leadership Kickoff and at a recent meeting of
the CalPERS Investment Committee, CFA members proudly showed
their solidarity in calling on the pension system to stop
investing in private prison operators CoreCivic and GEO
Group. At the committee meeting, CFA Associate Vice
President Margarita Berta-Avila and others provided a series of
emotional and direct remarks to the assembled members.
On Tuesday, April 30, faculty and students were at the Capitol to
urge lawmakers to #FundTheCSU and support state budget
allocations that would strengthen the People’s University.
To learn more about CFA’s budget advocacy and sponsored
legislation, click
here.
CFA held a reception on Monday, April 29 honoring Senator Holly
Mitchell and Gov. Gavin Newsom for their efforts on behalf of
public higher education.
Both Newsom and Mitchell were at CFA Headquarters in Sacramento
to accept their awards during the reception, which also was
attended by numerous legislators, faculty, and students.
CFA hosted a rally in support of gubernatorial candidate Gavin
Newsom on Friday, Nov. 2 at San Diego State.
The event drew hundreds of students, faculty, and community
allies to the East Commons, where the crowd heard more about
Newsom’s commitment to protecting quality public higher
education.
As CFA’s contract expiration date approaches, the Bargaining Team
is continuing its work to get back to the negotiation table with
CSU management. An intensive two-day strategy and planning
session will take place at the Union’s Sacramento headquarters
office later this week. Meanwhile, Bargaining Team members are
partnering with chapter leaders and members of the statewide
Contract Development and Bargaining Strategy Committee to bring
survey results and bargaining updates to all of the 23 CSU
campuses this spring term.
CSU STANISLAUS HOSTS THIRD ANNUAL TRANSCEND TRANSVERSE
CONFERENCE: The March 20 Transcend Transverse Conference
focuses on trans, gender non-conforming, and non-binary
youth.
The transgender community is incredibly diverse. Some transgender
people identify as male or female, and some identify as
genderqueer, non-binary, gender nonconforming, or somewhere else
on or outside of the spectrum of what we understand gender to be.
Twenty-five percent of young people in California identify as
transgender as described above.
CFA leaders at San Jose State University are attempting to
address promotion and tenure denials to a disproportionately high
number of women of color. Unfortunately, SJSU management has
sought to interfere with our legally protected rights to do so.
