CFA Calls Out Management for Nonsensical Consultant Listening Session 

CFA leaders declined to participate in an absurd listening session with a consultant that CSU management paid to collect information about employee experiences.  

Management scheduled a September 1 meeting for union representatives to tell the consulting firm Korn Ferry about topics including why people work for the CSU and problems with working for the university.  

The CFA Bargaining Team has made faculty experiences clear to management during more than 17 months of the statutory bargaining process. Our union proposed improvements to salary, workload, and appointment, as well as new articles on academic freedom and AI. But management has rejected our proposals, leading us to declare impasse and begin mediation.  

“It is absurd that management is wasting resources for a consulting firm to ask unions about issues that we have proposed solutions to at the bargaining table,” said Margarita Berta-Ávila, CFA president and Sacramento State professor. “Instead of spending time and energy in a nonsensical listening session, our union is focusing on our fight to Fund the Classroom, Not the Boardroom. We call on management to invest in its workers, not consultants.” 

Research on how CSU management has funneled funds toward consultants and away from faculty, staff, and students can be found in CFA’s Short-Changing Students Report.  

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