CFA San José

We are calling for more volunteers to help support our committees including: Faculty Rights, Membership & Organizing, Communications, Political Action, Bylaws, Outreach, and general event support. Please fill out this form to express you interest or reach out directly to a committee chair.

Complete form here.

The CFA Disaster Relief Fund FAQ can be found here:  CFA Disaster Relief Fund FAQ.pdf

Please note that for the Los Angeles fires occurring in January 2025, eligibility is being extended to:

• All CFA active members including anyone who signed up for membership before the start of the fires.
• CFA’s SQE Interns
• CFA’s Chapter Office Managers

CFA full-time staff are also eligible for CFA’s Disaster Relief Fund.  The process for submission is the same for all. 

All applications are reviewed for membership and eligibility.

For any questions please email me, Parvinder, or membership@calfac.org.

CFA will help, but it is necessary that you choose the track, sign the grievance, file it on time and with the appropriate administrator, and provide the information necessary to understand and pursue a resolution of your problem.

These forms and resources will be helpful for anyone facing a grievance situation.

• Campus CFA Chapter Faculty Rights Representative
• Lecturers’ Handbook
• Coaches handbook
• Counselors Handbook
• Grievance Flow Chart
• Statutory Hearing Manual
• CFA Representation Policy
• EP&R 76-36: Faculty Workload Policies and Procedures This 1976 Document is still relevant to faculty employment in the CSU today.
• App for reporting Police Misconduct
• Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act (HEERA)
• Unfair practice Charge Information
• Employment Law Fact Sheets — click on “employment” (These cover non-labor law topics like discrimination, family leave, unemployment benefits, etc.)
• Discrimination: While the Collective Bargaining Agreement has an anti-discrimination provision in Article 16, faculty are protected by federal and state laws. For more information, go to California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission also see:
  • Interim CSU Nondiscrimination Policy, the CSU’s “Systemwide Policy Prohibiting Discrimination, Harassment, Retaliation, Sexual Misconduct, Dating and Domestic Violence, and Stalking against Employees and Third Parties and Systemwide Procedure for Addressing Such Complaints by zEmployees and Third Parties.”

Do you want to support Faculty fighting for rights, justice and equity? Are you interested in or skilled in reading, interpreting and applying policy? Then consider joining our Faculty Rights Committee!!!

How much work would this be?

We’re working to build out the committee in order to make sure that none of its members need to take on a heavy burden, and to refine our mechanisms to ensure that collectively we’re staying on top of faculty requests for help, sharing essential information, and refining our strategies together.  I can’t convert that to a firm hours/week ceiling, but I’m hopeful that it will end up averaging a few hours per week at most, and less than that most weeks.

What kind of work would this be?

The work of the FRC includes activities like:

• Helping other faculty members file grievances when they feel that they have been harmed by a violation of the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) or of University policy
• Helping other faculty members to mount arguments for more equitable pay
• Helping other faculty members to frame rebuttals to RTP or other evaluations — or to craft their narratives for such evaluations in the context of the policies that are supposed to guide these evaluations
• Helping other faculty members (such as department chairs) understand the CBA and/or University policy to avoid accidentally creating grievable situations

Generally, this is work aimed at making our University function more fairly for the Unit 3 faculty it employs — whether or not those faculty are CFA members.  A lot of it is one-on-one work, but if you enjoy giving workshops, there’s an opportunity to do some of that.  Some of the work of the FRC is oriented around understanding the rules, but some of it is oriented around persuading the University to treat compliance with the CBA and policy as a floor, rather than a ceiling.

In addition to regular check-ins the rest of the campus FRC, our CFA Field Rep and the CFA statewide Faculty Rights folks will be a resource to help you learn how to do this important work.

I hope you’ll consider this invitation (and maybe even suggest a colleague or two you think might also be interested).  Please don’t hesitate to ask me any questions whose answers might make a difference to your decision!

Best,

Janet D. Stemwedel – Chair, Faculty Rights Committee

(facrightschair.sj@calfac.org)

Shamako Noble – CFA SJSU Field Rep (snoble@calfac.org)

As a social justice union representing faculty in the California State University System, we are dedicated to anti-racism and social justice. We purposefully center and extend our anti-racism social justice work to address the structural racism that shapes our society and the CSU. Please refer to the CFA resources relevant to Anti Racism principles and reforms found HERE.

The Council for Racial & Social Justice promotes and supports anti-racism & social justice in the
CSU and CFA.

San José Representative – Chris Cox

Lecturer Representative – Alicia Henderson (ahenderson@calfac.org)
Assembly Delegate at Large – Andrew DeLunas (adelunas@calfac.org)

Council Of Lecturers Page 

Lectures Handbook 

Preference for Work Supplement Guide

Coming Soon…
Our chapter’s Political Action Chair is William Armaline (warmaline@cfa.org). Feel free to reach out regarding our chapter’s political values and activities.

Legalize Middle-Class Housing! 

Greater San José has the highest housing prices in North America. The average one-family home here costs $1.9 million (fall 2024), about 5 times the U.S. average. Prices are more than double those of regions comparable to San José including greater Seattle (average $802,300) and greater Boston ($758,700).  

The gap in rents is less. Seattle and Boston, like San José, have serious rental housing shortages. But San José rents are, in fact, higher than those in any other big metro area except San Francisco – 18% higher than Seattle’s. 22% of San José renters pay more than half their income for housing. 

Section coming…

SJSU Labor Council is a growing coalition of Labor Groups on campus at San Jose State. CFA is a proud partner. The coalition includes various Unions that make up much of the family of San Jose State. 

CSUEU

UAW 

I. Working Partnerships 

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