On 13 January 2023, the UC Office of the President requested that campuses distribute self-attestation forms asking Senate faculty to report the quantity of labor they withheld in support of the multi-unit UAW strike so UC can dock their pay accordingly. While UCOP has the legal right to dock pay for work that was not […]
Today, CUCFA joined with other unions representing approximately 110,000 University of California workers—almost half the total workforce at California’s third-largest employer — to call on the University of California to divest more than $6 billion from Blackstone Investments, including nearly $4 billion in recently acquired holdings from Blackstone’s Real Estate Income Trust (BREIT). The letter […]
Please join us for a statewide teach-in and Q&A session led by rank-and-file union members and featuring a retired labor attorney. The presenters will do their best to answer your questions. The teach-in will be this Thursday, December 15, 2022 from 1-3pm. Title: Rank & File* Presents – Teach-in: Faculty Solidarity & Rights Join fellow faculty members […]
As the UAW strike ends its fourth week, the UCSB Faculty Association would like to reiterate our recommendations to faculty and respond to numerous distortions put forth by the UC and UCSB administrations. 1) The strike is not over, even with tentative agreements with postdocs and academic researchers, who continue striking in solidarity with the […]
Noah Zatz (UCLA), Sameer Ashar (UC Irvine), Veena Dubal (UC Hastings),Catherine Fisk (UC Berkeley), Leticia Saucedo (UC Davis)November 21, 2022 https://webshare.law.ucla.edu/faculty/bibs/zatz/HEERA_memo_FINAL.pdf