California State University Reaches Agreement with Faculty Union, Lecturers Back in Class Today
Faculty and supporters marching yesterday at Cal Poly Humboldt. [Photo by Guy Aronoff]
“I am extremely pleased and deeply appreciative that we have reached common ground with CFA that will end the strike immediately,” said CSU Chancellor Mildred García.
The tentative agreement includes a series of beneficial terms for the faculty.
The key components of the agreement include a 5-percent general salary increase for all faculty members, retroactive to July 1, 2023. Another 5-percent increase is set for July 1, 2024, conditional on the state maintaining its base funding for the CSU. In order to support the lowest-paid faculty members, the agreement stipulates a $3,000 increase in the minimum pay for salary Ranges A and B, retroactive to July 1, 2023, with an additional $3,000 hike for Range A on July 1, 2024.
Additionally, the agreement introduces a Salary Step Increase of 2.65% for the 2024-25 academic year. Paid parental leave has been increased from six to 10 weeks.
Furthermore, the current contract, which was set to expire in 2024, has been extended by a year, now concluding on June 30, 2025.
CSU Chancellor Mildred García expressed her satisfaction with the resolution in a press release, stating, “The agreement enables the CSU to fairly compensate its valued, world-class faculty while protecting the university system’s long-term financial sustainability.” She emphasized the importance of this agreement in fostering a collaborative, student-centered environment across CSU’s 23 universities.
This resolution ends the strike that had briefly disrupted academic activities across the CSU system. The CFA, representing approximately 28,000 faculty members including professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors, and coaches, hailed the agreement as a significant achievement in their pursuit of fair compensation and improved working conditions.
“The collective action of so many lecturers, professors, counselors, librarians, and coaches over these last eight months forced CSU management to take our demands seriously. This Tentative Agreement makes major gains for all faculty at the CSU,” CFA President Charles Toombs said.
Press release from CSU Chancellor’s Office:
The California State University (CSU) is pleased to announce that an agreement has been reached with the California Faculty Association (CFA), ending their systemwide strike after one day. Students are advised to look for messages from their instructors regarding adjustments to their classes.
“I am extremely pleased and deeply appreciative that we have reached common ground with CFA that will end the strike immediately,” said CSU Chancellor Mildred García. “The agreement enables the CSU to fairly compensate its valued, world-class faculty while protecting the university system’s long-term financial sustainability. With the agreement in place, I look forward to advancing our student-centered work — together — as the nation’s greatest driver of social mobility and the pipeline fueling California’s diverse and educated workforce.”
The CFA represents approximately 28,000 professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors and coaches across the CSU’s 23 universities.
Further details regarding the agreement will be provided in the coming days.
Earlier: CSU Strike: CPH Open Though Striking Staff Members May Cancel Classes
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DELLIB
7 hours ago
The money is gone. Ca buget deficit now 60+ billion in the red. Liberal government policy pushed middle class and business out of Ca. Now all that is left is high paid government employees that are not happy with $70k a year and crazy retirements. (Calpers is broke too…) Stop the payments, cancel the checks Ca is going down fast better prepare!
Martin
13 hours ago
Cal Poly Humboldt at the present time is one screwed up mess. The faculty, most anyway, or just like greedy little kids. Asking for a 12% pay raise would cost $312 million dollars for this year alone. So, they get all dressed up in the cute red shirts, carrying banners and signs. How many are left in the classrooms for educating the students? They are just disgusting and should be fired if they don’t like their pay level.
Giant Squirrel
11 hours ago
Immediately terminate any/all striking government employees. They shouldn’t be allowed to unionize
Al L Ivesmatr
9 hours ago
Reply to Giant Squirrel
Ban government unions, stop the hijacking of their employers, the taxpayers. Perhaps they didn’t get the clue, when you sign up for a civil service job, you agree to make less money but in return, you help America and get a well above average golden parachute retirement.
Take the boot outta your mouth,corporate and executives don’t care about you or the workers that actually do the work and create value. How about some class solidarity you losers, corporate cucks.
All the money is going to administrators. Quoting a bunch of ignoramuses isn’t a stellar argument.
Imagine the higher tuition, bigger student loans that’ll be left for plumber and carpenter taxpayers to pay after Biden’s “forgiveness”. What happened to being responsible for your own obligations?
Tax the rich.
“Tax the rich” … well 800,000 people ran as fast they could from Kalifornia in 2023 -mostly due to confiscatory taxes – with more to come. 2022 had a good number of folks take off. The 800,000 left because they have the $$$ and could. Many more are headed out! What it means is… taxes will be heaped upon the folks that are not rich (thems rich are leaving). California will lose Representatives ( the number of) in the US House of Representatives. The $68 Billion deficit (and growing), gotta get paid by someone? Maybe Kalifornia can print it’s own money? What will they name it?
Only bootlicking losers are opposed to unions, unions fight for workers rights. I support these workers !!!
That was true at one point in our history. The unions won decent living conditions for hard-working citizens being crushed by greedy overlords and I would never question the validity or bravery of the old unions. But…today? Many unions are run by well-paid gangsters with multiple levels of paper-pushers soaking up the mandatory union dues. In time almost any organization becomes dominated by parasites and scammers…
How pathetic has commenting become when something so mild and common as a person posting a taxpayer complaint get an outraged response calling such commenters “bootlicking losers”. If something seriously happens like an actual strike, lockout or police action happens, you going to call for a nuclear bomb because your rhetoric has already escalated beyond reason over nothing?
The photo at the top shows a clenched fist on a banner over the first very mild union action. A lot of anger misdirected over little. Truly we live in an age of government snowflakes who have no idea what real Unions went through to get what now exists. Who see themselves as the heirs of those early unions but are really trust fund government unionists who don’t understand much at all. Take a chill pill.
what could possibly be wrong or unfair for a organization to charge you for the right to work? (former and vested union member) let alone political affliations that the membership may not agree with.
I like the Mafia too. Lol
Good luck with that! You forgot to distinguish between your workers ((government employees who don’t get to tell us how much they make because they willingly signed up as civil servants with the understanding of making less now for our country and future golden parachute retirement benefits) ) and your employers(private business who you can negotiate with as a group of individuals or yourself because you are extremely valuable and have expertise to make your company more viable and valuable). Go figure………
Although on the surface unions promise advocacy. In general they mainly extract from the individual.
A fine list of who not to listen to.
Don’t get scratched!
Does anyone believe this charade didn’t have a predetermined outcome? A unionized bureaucracy is a joke, and unfortunately we taxpayers pay the price. Union negotiations require 3 chairs at the table. the worker, the employer, and the market. The market is the tempering force that keeps the others within reasonable boundaries. These miscreants The primary purpose of bureaucrat unions is to consolidate funds to pay off their candidates of choice. But don’t worry, they’ll continue indoctrinating your children to be the perfect little apparatchiks.
Union member (Operating Engineers) since 1962
Spontaneous combustion due to overheated slogans…
Are the “negotiators” for the taxpayer employer members of the union or otherwise benefit from the extravagant 12% raise? The fix was in!
Yikes. I bet you wish you had all your dues since 62.
Without unions We could never afford to have our children..so yah big union prick over here.
Interesting color choice
Hmm, same red as the MAGA hats? You know, the ones made in China?
Exactly?
State mafia…
How about staff? Clerical and blue collar workers still out?
Strikes are effective! More power to the workers! While college and corporate excesses/profits rise, so must the pay for the employees!
I have a friend who was in that STRIKE march. She’s a stakeholder. Today she is out helping count homeless people. Why? Because SHE CARES about the people, like herself, who work hard, and those who are less advantaged than she is.
When inflation takes off… it is important to Strike! Even if you vote (d)for the people that caused the inflation and the Union employees work at a State University supported by tax dollars. Get ready for a big number increase in the homeless because you unwittingly help to make it happen.
Funny how some degrees are not worth much in academia or the real world. Force your employer to compensate you and recognize how hard you worked for that degree in philosophy.
The whole point of unions is to force employers to pay union members above market value for their labor.
Ultimately consumers pay fr everything…
Not at all. Unions are the counterbalance to the unilateral power of the employer in telling him what the market value of their labor is. The problem with government unions is that, in that particular case, neither the employer nor employee have to worry about the business being solvent in arriving at a value.
You are correct with your first sentence. The problem is that unions extract an equal or greater bill for their services. In my experience there is little benefit except for the fancy sticker.
Employers do not have “unilateral power.” Employment is a mutual agreement between employees and employers, if either is unhappy, the employment is terminated. What people are willing to work for, and what employers are willing to pay is the market value of labor…
What they fail to say is that the average salary for a professor in the CSU system is 126k per year. I would keep my mouth shut if I were lucky enough to make that much. If you are advocating for them you are advocating for wealth gap. Remember the wages will be passed to the students and taxpayers.
Our government today is funded by a private company called the Federal Reserve. They are owned by the banks like blackrock, chase, BofA, the house of lords, goldman sachs, the bank of england, other world influence. Not much of our original foundation exists anymore, only what the world banks decide. They decide now who gets paid! Look around and their agenda is concrete everywhere. I almost think they own the presidency of the US and the military. I can understand now why they want to completely fund our education system as a wing of propaganda. I have learned by the education system to be a debt slave to these people. Run for your lives!