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 […]
The UC Faculty Association is pleased to convey the good news from UC AFT that the unfair practices strike is off. We have witnessed the power of solidarity for a just cause. Grow our power. Join the faculty association, your voice in such matters that complements the Senate and can go in directions that the […]
The Faculty Associations Express Solidarity with UC-AFT’s Fight for a Fair Contract SEPTEMBER 29, 2021 –– Hundreds of UC Senate Faculty stand in solidarity with our lecturer colleagues, represented by their union, UC-AFT, in their fight for better working conditions, including recognition as professionals with the right to be rehired. We owe it to them, […]
Please click HERE to read and sign the pledge. The Faculty Associations across UC, who together make up the Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA), of which the SBFA is the UCSB Chapter, stand in solidarity with our lecturer colleagues who currently are in negotiations with UCOP for a new contract. For the first time […]
As of 10/6/2020, well over 500 Academic Senate faculty have signed the UC Senate Faculty Pledge of Solidarity with Lecturer Colleagues. After two years of negotiations and for the first time in 20 years, our UC-AFT colleagues voted with an overwhelming majority of 96% to authorize a strike. We echo UC-AFT’s demands that President Drake […]