An Independent Senate Faculty Union
An Independent Senate Faculty Union
SCFA invites you to a casual happy hour, Thursday, March 16th, 6:30-8:30 pm at Lúpulo Craft Beer House (233 Cathcart St). Drop in any time, bring a friend, and have a drink with colleagues. If you can’t make this…
JACOBIN – January 31, 2023 Jacobin spoke with SCFA cochair Jessica Taft, professor of Latin American and Latino studies at UC Santa Cruz, to understand the relationship between tenure and labor politics at the university, touching on the increasingly corporate…
Today, January 16, 2023, the SCFA submitted to Deven Desai, ELR Director, a request for information for the complete language of each stage of the faculty self-attestation form. The google form that was created by Labor Relations for faculty does…
We hope you are doing as well as possible given the accumulated fatigue from last quarter as well as the recent storms. While the strike has ended (although the contract was overwhelmingly rejected by our campus), we realize that many…
Dear Devan Desai, We write, collectively, as representatives of UAW 2865, UC-AFT, and SCFA. Due to the UAW’s strike over UC’s unfair labor practices during contract negotiations, a significant amount of the labor required to complete Fall 2022 grade submission…
We would like to invite you to a virtual SCFA town hall on Thursday, December 8, at 5PM. This will be an opportunity to hear updates regarding the bargaining process and ask any questions you might have regarding struck work,…
December 2, 2022 As we near the end of the fall quarter without a resolution between two striking units (UAW 2865 and UAW SRU) and UCOP, SCFA wants to acknowledge that instructional faculty who started the quarter with TAs or…
November 13, 2022 SCFA is sharing important clarifications that CUCFA has issued to their FAQ in response to confusions arising from the November 10 communication from Academic Council Chair Cochrane and Vice Chair Steintrager. We appreciate the efforts to remind…
November 11, 2022 President Michael V. Drake Office of the President University of California 1111 Franklin St., 12th Floor Oakland, CA 94607 Delivered via Email to: president@ucop.edu Dear President Drake, We are again writing to you as the leadership of…
CUCFA and UAW virtual town hall Friday, November 11, 4-5 pm, Please pre-register for this event: Dear Colleagues, The Academic Student Employees, Postdocs, Academic Researchers, and Student Researchers plan to begin striking this coming Monday, November 14th. The…