An Independent Senate Faculty Union
An Independent Senate Faculty Union
Professor Christopher Newfield is perhaps the U.S.’s foremost scholar in “university studies.” Chris is Professor in the English Department at UC Santa Barbara, and is a co-organizer of the important and crucial website “Remaking the University” (utotherescue.blogspot.com). His books on…
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.…
This spring the university put out a call for online course proposals, to be developed over the summer with a summer stipend. A condition of the university’s call was that awardees “be willing to share these materials with their colleagues…
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…
The Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA), the coordinating and service agency for the individual Faculty Associations — associations of UC Senate faculty — on the separate campuses of the University of California. Below please find a letter that CUCFA…
The SCFA Executive Board sent the following message to all Senate faculty on February 7, 2020 in response to the announcement that the graduate students would begin an open-ended strike on Monday, February 10, 2020. Dear Colleagues, Faculty members…
Posted below is the letter sent jointly by the Senate Executive Committee and SCFA’s Executive Board to Chancellor Larive and iEVC/CP Kletzer on January 21, 2020. ——————————————————— January 21, 2020 Dear Cindy and Lori, The UAW letter to UCOP from…
The SCFA sent the following letter to the systemwide Labor Relation’s Executive Director at UCOP on January 17, 2020, supporting the negotiations between the administration and UAW for the graduate students. —————————————————– Peter Chester Executive Director, Labor Relations University of…
Last quarter the SCFA executive board issued public statements supporting a COLA for graduate students and outlining our understanding of faculty obligations during the grade strike. Those communications followed extensive consultation with SCFA’s lawyers. We have since met with the…
December 13, 2019 Dear Colleagues, The Santa Cruz Faculty Association (SCFA) continues to support our graduate students’ demand for a COLA to deal with high costs in Santa Cruz. Now that graduate students are involved in a grade strike, faculty…