As your union, we take seriously our responsibility to provide faculty with accurate information on our rights in various workplace situations. Most of the materials found here are related to faculty rights during strikes of other bargaining units, but you are always welcome to reach out to us with any questions or concerns you might have about other topics.
- Faculty File Historic Academic Freedom Unfair Labor Practice Charges Against UC
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… Read more: Faculty File Historic Academic Freedom Unfair Labor Practice Charges Against UC - Childcare negotiations
SCFA worked with the Academic Mothers Faculty Community Network in trying to negotiate for a temporary childcare subsidy for faculty with children under the age of five years old. Childcare is an urgent need for faculty parents, and especially mothers,… Read more: Childcare negotiations - UAW strike and faculty rights
During the Spring 2024 UAW ULP strike, SCFA continued to provide critical information to faculty members. On May 3, following the UAW’s call for a strike authorization vote, we emphasized that faculty should not be expected to do the work… Read more: UAW strike and faculty rights - SCFA Files Unfair Labor Practice Charge re: union access to meetings
As your union, we take seriously our responsibility to provide you with legally accurate information. To that end, as we communicated in our email of May 19, the SCFA has been and remains available to meet with individuals or groups… Read more: SCFA Files Unfair Labor Practice Charge re: union access to meetings - May day message
Happy May Day! The Executive Board of SCFA sends you greetings and solidarity in advance of this international workers’ day. We write to encourage faculty to attend tomorrow’s May Day rally in solidarity with the Palestine General Federation of Trade… Read more: May day message - Request for Information – Faculty self-attestation form language
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… Read more: Request for Information – Faculty self-attestation form language - SCFA Open Meeting: Weds January 18, 2023 5PM
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… Read more: SCFA Open Meeting: Weds January 18, 2023 5PM - Joint union message to UCSC Labor Relations re: Fall grades
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… Read more: Joint union message to UCSC Labor Relations re: Fall grades - SCFA Informational Town Hall on Grading – Thursday December 8, 2022 at 5PMWe 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,… Read more: SCFA Informational Town Hall on Grading – Thursday December 8, 2022 at 5PM
- SCFA Message on Grades and Struck WorkDecember 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… Read more: SCFA Message on Grades and Struck Work
- Further clarifications on faculty rights in the UAW strikeNovember 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… Read more: Further clarifications on faculty rights in the UAW strike
- FAQs for Senate Faculty about Possible Strike by UAW-2865, UAW-5810, and SRU-UAWOn November 14th, tens of thousands of academic workers represented by UAW 2865 (the Union of Academic Student Employees at UC), UAW 5810 (Postdocs and Academic Researchers), and SRU-UAW (Student Researchers) will begin striking to resolve Unfair Labor Practices (ULPs).… Read more: FAQs for Senate Faculty about Possible Strike by UAW-2865, UAW-5810, and SRU-UAW
- * Fall 2021-2022 ReopeningPlease see the below letter to EVC Kletzer about fall teaching, sent jointly by SCFA, UC-AFT (the lecturers’ union), and UAW 2865 (the TA’s union). Linked here is the Senate Executive Committee’s letter on this topic, which we echo in… Read more: * Fall 2021-2022 Reopening
- * SCFA Victory: Academic Analytics is OutThe 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… Read more: * SCFA Victory: Academic Analytics is Out
- * SCFA Response to Notice for Fall 2020 Online Course ProposalsJune 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.… Read more: * SCFA Response to Notice for Fall 2020 Online Course Proposals
- * On-line Course Proposals Spring 2020This 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… Read more: * On-line Course Proposals Spring 2020
- * Faculty Rights and Responsibilities During Student StrikeThe 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… Read more: * Faculty Rights and Responsibilities During Student Strike
- * FAQ for Faculty during the Graduate Student Grade StrikeDecember 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… Read more: * FAQ for Faculty during the Graduate Student Grade Strike
- * SCFA Solidarity with Graduate StudentsThe SCFA sent the following message to faculty on 12/11/19: Dear Colleagues, The Santa Cruz Faculty Association (SCFA) supports the graduate students’ demand for a COLA to deal with the extreme rent burden they face living in Santa Cruz.… Read more: * SCFA Solidarity with Graduate Students
- * Academic AnalyticsThe SCFA is pleased to announce that the University’s contract with Academic Analytics (AA), a private firm that contracts with universities to manage a range of data, including faculty research productivity and other material used in the personnel and resource… Read more: * Academic Analytics