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CFA/CHANCELLOR BARGAINING 2011. WHAT’S AT STAKE?. In the beginning…. In face of California’s budget crisis CFA offered to extend the contract Made more sense to fight together for funding than fight each other at the bargaining table. Chancellor’s Response. NO!
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CFA/CHANCELLOR BARGAINING2011 WHAT’S AT STAKE?
In the beginning… • In face of California’s budget crisis CFA offered to extend the contract • Made more sense to fight together for funding than fight each other at the bargaining table
Chancellor’s Response • NO! • Management has “operational needs” • Changes in the CSU in recent years + take backs will transform: • the CSU as a public university • the faculty’s role in the university • the fundamental “job” of being a faculty member
CFA’S BARGAINING PROPOSALS • Resist the Chancellor’s vision for CSU and his take-backs • Shape a different vision: Professional working conditions and reasonable learning conditions are essential for quality education. • Five values in our contract that are key to providing quality higher education
#1Faculty need working conditions and student deserve learning conditions that make quality education possible
CFA PROPOSALS • Faculty decide the pedagogically appropriate sizes for classes • The contract enforce those class size limits • If class sizes exceeded faculty should be compensated
#2No Privatization of the CSU California needs a university that is public and affordable
CSU Initiatives and Trends • Driving more courses and programs to extension • Move toward “for profit” model • Lower pay and no benefits for teaching in extension – “piece work” • Students pay more; faculty earn less
CFA PUSH BACK PROPOSALS • Regular academic year pay and benefits for all for-credit summer and extension courses • Recognize academic freedom for all faculty work, including extension and online education
CFA Proposals • Increase tenure-track hiring • Maintain three-year and unconditional full-time lecturer appointments • Prevent contracting out of CSU faculty work
CFA Proposals • Equal rights for counselors, librarians, coaches: • No segregation of coaches into a separate article • FERPing rights for tenured counselors • Assigned time for tenure-track/tenured librarians with research or service responsibilities • Fee waiver for all faculty for all children up to age 26 • Reject the Chancellor’s proposal to forbid use of fee waivers for CSU doctorates
#4Support Faculty as Professionals;Respect Faculty’s Professional Judgment
CFA PROPOSALS • Support for faculty leave programs • Increase opportunities for sabbaticals and other leaves • Respect for shared governance and the faculty’s role in educational decisions • CFA proposals guarantee faculty control over curriculum and over academic and professional standards • No contracting out!
CHANCELLOR'S PROPOSALS REJECTED BY CFA • Expand campus President’s ability to deny sabbaticals • Weaken the authority of an arbitrator in RTP cases • Raise the burden of proof for faculty in RTP grievances • Eliminate the principle of “innocent until proven guilty” for faculty suspended without pay for more than 30 days • President not faculty determines number of classes in which faculty will be evaluated • All non-CSU employment reported annually to management.
#5 Quality education requires investing in CSU faculty--even in hard times
CSU PROPOSALS: NOTHING NOW; LESS LATER • No salary increases in 11/12 • Reopeners that would allow for reductions in salaries AND benefits in 12/13 and 13/14
CFA SALARY PROPOSALS • Implement year 2 of the Equity Program for Associate and Full Professors • 1% General Salary Increase 2011/12, 2012/13, 2013/14 • Increase GSI to 5% in first year that CSU gross operating budget reaches budget request for 08/09 • Service Salary Increase each year for eligible faculty
We must reject a contractthat would: • Usher in a lower-quality CSU • Diminish the role of faculty in the university • Degrade the profession for our colleagues, our students, and the CSU