An Independent Senate Faculty Union
An Independent Senate Faculty Union
Andrew Slobodien, JD Director of Labor and Employee Relations University of California, Santa Cruz RFI: Changes in staff support Dear Andrew, In discussing issues with our members, we are consistently hearing that staff shortages are impacting faculty workloads. We appreciate…
May 8, 2023 Patricia L. Hardaway Associate Vice Chancellor for Staff Human Resources and HRO (Interim) University of California, Santa Cruz RE: AIR and Senate Faculty Teaching Capacity/Expectations Dear Pat, SCFA understands that the AIR budget model makes reference to…
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…
SCFA invites you to a membership meeting-open to all Senate faculty-on Monday October 26, 6:45-8PM. In this moment of budget cuts and remote teaching amid the COVID pandemic, this meeting is an opportunity for all of us, together, to discuss…
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…
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…