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As we are near the end of the academic year, our bargaining sessions with CSU management continue on through the summer! Here’s how and why you can stay up to date to ensure that we win a fair contract: 1) check out headlines; 2) attend bargaining updates when possible, and 3) because this information allows us to stay up to date so that we can organize, build unity and power, cultivate a stronger understanding of our rights, and escalate if and when we must. 

Last week, we broke down our ten proposals on appointment, one of which focuses on changes to assignment order and how available work, like course assignments, will be distributed. 

This “Order of Assignment” proposal, applies to all faculty, but it’s particularly important to lecturer faculty as it guides who receives offers of work, how many units those offers will be, and all within the context of an order of assignment.  

Currently, the order of assignment prioritizes work for tenure-line faculty, and then 3-year lecturers, followed by 1-year lecturers and semester to semester lecturers. However, the way this appointment process works, lecturers are routinely locked into part-time temporary assignments, making it almost impossible for them to get enough new and additional work to move into full-time unconditional status (a designation that gives lecturers the most job security). So we are proposing modifications to the order of assignment to build in rights for seniority and to prioritize bringing existing lecturers up to full-time before new lower time base lecturers can be hired.  

We are proposing that work shall now be first offered based on the seniority of faculty with temporary appointments, which is defined as the date they were hired in their department (or any prior departments that have ceased to exist as a result of being merged or dissolved). 

Additionally, we are proposing the work must be offered to qualified faculty and in the following order: 

  1. Three-year and five-year full-time appointees 
  1. Three-year and five-year part-time appointees 
  1. Those with three-year appointments whose names appear on the departmental list (see Article 38.48)  
  1. One-year full-time appointees who were first appointed to their department by Fall 2025 
  1. One-year part-time appointees who were first appointed to their department by Fall 2025, up to their time base entitlement 
  1. Additional work for part-time three-year or five-year appointees up to a 1.0 time base 
  1. Continuing multi-year full-time appointees 
  1. Continuing one-year full-time appointees who were first appointed to their department after Fall 2025 
  1. Continuing one-year appointees who were first appointed to their department after Fall 2025 and multi-year part-time appointees up to their time base entitlement 
  1. Visiting faculty  
  1. Part-time and full-time temporary faculty with no multi-year or long-time appointments who were employed in the current or prior academic year and are not eligible for a 12.3 entitlement 
  1. Administrators, teaching associates, and other student employees 
  1. Part-time temporary faculty who have a one-year appointment up to a 1.0 time base 
  1. Any qualified candidate, including potential new hires 

We passed this version last week, but management has rejected nearly every previous version of CFA proposals on Article 12; this included our proposals to bring more job security to lecturers who continue to be negatively impacted by precarious employment.  

Our union’s goal is to ensure fairness while improving the stability and working conditions of our faculty. But to win strong contracts, we need strong engagement from our members.  

As bargaining continues over the summer, we encourage all CFA members to talk with their colleagues and departments about our current proposals on the table. Remember: every campus has an elected bargaining team member at the table, representing you so don’t hesitate to reach out to them for questions, comments or suggestions.  Look here for Your Bargaining Representative. 

If you know of any faculty members who are not yet members, encourage them to join us in this fight! Also, reach out to your field representative or chapter president for more ways to get involved. You are always welcome. 

This work will take all of us, but we win when workers stick together to demand fairness in the workplace! 

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