Category: Labor Issues
‘Dear Leader’ Charlie Reed Retires–Reaction Mixed
News of the Chancellor’s resignation arrived on my phone as I sat at a conference session in Athens, Georgia. Sitting with a CSU colleague we high-fived each other, the audible slap causing a br... Read More
CFA Solidarity at CSU Channel Islands
While our fellow union members were protesting at the Board of Trustees meeting in Long Beach, solidarity events took place throughout the system. Our campus protest focused on the unwillingness of th... Read More
How Dare they Question ‘Dear Leader’
“Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last have you left no sense of decency?”–Joseph Welch to Senator Joseph McCarthy We could ask the same of CSU Chancellor Charlie Reed. A s... Read More
Divide, Disarm, and Destroy
I did not think it possible, but Gail Brooks has sunk to a new low. Her approach seems to come from that old saying “If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bulls**t.... Read More
CSU Faculty Vote to Authorize a Strike
This is CFA’s statement on the outcome of our strike authorization vote: Faculty United! CFA members send Chancellor clear message as 95% vote to support a strike View in HTML Download as a .PDF... Read More
Voting NOT to Strike is What Will Really Hurt Students
In an editorial today in the Long Beach Press-Telegram the editors opine that a strike by CSU faculty “sends the wrong message;” that striking will “do damage to students.” The... Read More
What’s Charlie Reed Up To? My Bet: No Good
According to a press release yesterday the Chancellor’s Office has decided to return to the bargaining table with CFA over a successor contract. The California State University and the Californi... Read More
Just Despicable
I cannot think of any other words to describe the email that we received today from Gail Brooks at the Chancellor’s Office: Just Despicable. (see full text below) According to Ms. Brooks CFA is ... Read More
