UC librarians have just started bargaining a new contract. They have a solidarity pledge to share: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/support-uc-librarians, and will be bargaining at UCLA on January 19, for anyone who wants to make the drive to attend.
The Executive Board of the Santa Barbara Faculty Association (SBFA) supports the statement below from the UC-wide Council of Faculty Associations (CUCFA) about the urgency of defending academic freedom and the free speech rights of instructional faculty and students when they are under selective attack in times of conflict and tension. With CUCFA’s American Association of University Professors […]
Dear UCSB Faculty, Please add your name to our letter to UC President Michael Drake and the UC Regents objecting to the sharp healthcare benefit cost increases to employees of 15% to 193%. We also object to the opacity with which UC negotiated rate increases with health care plan providers and unilaterally decided how to […]
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 […]