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 […]
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
Graduate students, postdocs, and other academic student employees are essential to the teaching and research mission of the University of California, especially as undergraduate enrollments rise. Given the escalating costs of living in California, 48,000 people in the UC system represented by three unions–UAW 2865, UAW 5810, and SRU-UAW–are coordinating their fight for living wages, […]
“UCSB Faculty Association Asks for Transparency & Flexibility with Return to In-Person Learning.” This 27 minute report by KCSB-FM Internal News Director Ashley Rusch, which aired on January 31, 2022, is based on and includes clips from an extended interview with SBFA Board members Professors Ben Olguin, Eileen Boris and Harold Marcuse. Representing our membership, we […]
To the UCSB Chancellor, EVC, Academic Senate & Covid Working Group For Clarity, Caution & Flexibility on UCSB COVID Pandemic Protocols Final version: The UCSB Faculty Association appreciates the UCSB administration’s efforts to steward our community through the ever-changing conditions and circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic over the past 24 months. Everyone has endured much, including […]