Last Friday, we provided a bargaining update regarding CSU management’s bad faith refusal to meet with us in the same room to negotiate over ground rules.

Every day, we are encountering relentless attacks on higher education from all corners. We’ve seen attempts to eliminate the federal Department of Education, the cancellation of NSF grants, the gutting of health and medical research, attacks on DEI, and major cuts to education funding here in California. Management’s intransigence further worsens the conditions of our public education system, and it is largely due to their contempt for shared governance and faculty work.

This current stall in the process is not about technicalities and esoteric union rules—it is about meeting with management as co-equals in a structured manner to give faculty their right to have a say in their working conditions.

In this moment, it is more important than ever to be in community. We are all CFA, and we all have a stake in what happens next. 

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Sincerely,

Your CFA Bargaining Team