Category Union Negotiations

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Faculty Salary Equity Program

October 5, 2022 The SCFA has been in negotiations with the campus administration regarding their proposed 2022-2023 salary equity program, and after reaching a tentative agreement with the administration regarding that program, we brought the final proposal to our members…

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Fall 2022 instructors with immuno-compromised household members

SCFA sent EVC Kletzer the following letter on August 11, 2022, about teaching accommodations for instructors with immuno-compromised household members. If you haven’t already, please let us know if this or similar issues are of concern to you. Update: On…

* SCFA Victory: Academic Analytics is Out

The SCFA became concerned with the AA relationship in the spring of 2016 (see earlier report here).  Reports from other universities that had contracts with AA, particularly a detailed report from Rutgers University, suggested numerous problems with their data, most…

* SCFA Response to Notice for Fall 2020 Online Course Proposals

June 10, 2020 Jennifer Schiffner Director, Employee & Labor Relations University of California, Santa Cruz Dear Jen, Thanks for your letter of June 9.  The clarifications you sent, particularly the sunset clause, represent progress in the protection of faculty rights.…

* SCFA’s request to bargain – 2/18/20

As the exclusive senate-faculty bargaining unit at UCSC, the SCFA is empowered to bargain with the administration over terms and conditions of senate-faculty employment at UCSC (not including system-wide matters). On February 18, the SCFA delivered a request to bargain…

* Update on Online Education

We concluded our bargaining with the university over revenues for online course offerings in December 2016.   Under the current agreement, 40% of any revenues above course development costs will go to the faculty developer, a figure double the university’s original…

* Summer Session Salary Negotiations

In December 2016  the university proposed a cap on summer school salaries, and the SCFA began bargaining on the issue.  We first succeeded in getting the university to agree not to implement proposed changes in Summer 2017. Bargaining on the…