As we move to wrap up the end of the semester, we wanted to give you a review of all our efforts this past year in building, maintaining, and growing our CFA Union Power! Even since our last newsletter, we all have been quite busy! Let’s pause to catch up, shall we?! 

Our bargaining team representatives are still at it, passing proposals and research to the CSU, but receiving little in return. We continue to emphasize that a yearly Cost of Living Adjustment for Inflation + 2% is necessary to bring liveable wages to CSU jobs and reverse wage stagnation during inflation The CSU continues to deny us any raises at all. Stay tuned for more over the summer – we will all have to pitch in to show that we deserve a raise, Academic Freedom protections, and more.

The CFA statewide Native American and Indigenous People’s Caucus was welcomed to campus this past April. Organized by Sacramento State’s Council for Racial and Social Justice (CRSJ) and the executive board of the Esak’timá Center, this was a celebration to welcome the delegation to the first-of-its-kind, Wileety Native American College. Dale Allender, tri-chair of chapter ARSJ committee, CRSJ co-chair, expressed that it was a moving event, where the power of the people was felt and experienced. Read about the NAIPC and their visit during CFA’s Lobby Day to learn more. 

The CFA’s 101st General Assembly was held this past April. Assembly is a time to strengthen solidarity, to learn from each other, and to continue to organize ourselves. Chapter delegates are present to vote on resolutions, conduct union-wide business, and to manage the needs of the union on the whole. This assembly, like most, is a lively time with lots of fun, but also meaningful engagement and change. 

Read here to learn more about this Spring Assembly. Not sure what Assembly is? Check out Assembly 101 article from fall 2025

The 32nd Multicultural Education Conference was held this past March, and featured CFA executive board member Dale Allender as moderator of the Keynote Panel. The panelists included our CFA President, Margarita Berta-Avila, Adriana Betti, Executive Director of R.I.S.E, and Dominique Williams, Sac State graduate student in the inaugural Master of Arts in Ethnic Studies cohort (Class of 2027). We are always proud to see our CFA colleagues leading a charge for multicultural education. Our students deserve it; our work demands it; justice requires it. Read more about the Multicultural Education Conference!

May 1st was May Day! This year, May Day was an event held with SACRA and featured a march, and address on the State Capitol steps! CFA executive members met with SEIU Local 1000, and a few others (it was a good turn out!) to help show the power of the labor movement. Together, with a coalition of labor unions, we will earn our fair share. May Day is the perfect time to flex that union muscle!

On a more somber note, we were notified that a San Francisco State alumni, along with 18 others, was killed in the Philippines recently. In response to the massacre, the San Francisco State CFA Executive Board put out a statement condemning the heinous acts. Our Sacramento CFA Chapter Executive stands with our sibling colleagues at SF State in condemning these acts, as well. See our statement for more information on the atrocity and the 600+ additional people who have been displaced by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in Toboso, Negros Occidental, Philippines.

Our Chapter End-of-Year “Picnic” at the Park was a success. We had an amazing food truck cater, music, conversation, and a cooling valley Delta Breeze to help us all ease into summer…well, into the last week of instruction, but still, you get the idea! You can’t beat tacos, grass, music and good conversation! We also had an honored guest, Dr. Ernest Uwazie, who was this year’s recipient of the Dr. Lila Jacobs Social Justice & Organizing Award. We look forward to hosting next year, and we really look forward to you joining, too!

We had some Big Wins, too! Now, we won’t get into them all here, you can catch up on all of the wins in another article in this newsletter. But, we do want to mention all your hard work securing library funding and helping to restore cuts that librarian faculty have been managing for years. We also were able to get a signed MOU on AI – of which, you can read about in another article, too! Our power is significant. And when we make that power known, we win. What do you want to work on next? What are your Budget Priorities? How will you help secure our next win? 

In closing, we’d also like to take some time to remind you of where we have been this past year. So, check out these links to past chapter newsletters reviews and wrap ups to remind yourself of all the work we’ve been doing:

Here’s to a great year! And to a wonderful summer! Onward to the next!!! 

Cheers!

Your Sacramento Chapter Communication Committee

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