The SCFA joined with our fellow Faculty Associations across the system to file an Unfair Labor Practice charge against the university for their handling of the Gaza solidarity encampments around the state. The charge maintains that the UC violated established labor law and its own policies and procedures in its sweeping efforts to suppress pro-Palestinian speech on campuses.
Those actions were followed by policy changes enacted over the summer, about which neither unions nor the Academic Senate were consulted. These revised policies could reverberate for years, curtailing faculty and student speech on UC campuses on a broad range of issues, from labor organizing to student safety to curriculum reform.