Health and Safety

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

Dear colleagues, On October 26th, every UC employee received an Open Enrollment notice with new rates for healthcare benefits. The increases in the employee health benefits share are unprecedented and alarming. Costs for healthcare benefits will be going up between… Read more: Sign-on letter objecting to unreasonable increases in health benefit costs

May 8, 2023 Patricia L. Hardaway Associate Vice Chancellor for Staff Human Resources and HRO (Interim) University of California, Santa Cruz RE: New Air Quality Request for Information Dear Pat, SCFA acknowledges receipt of the administration’s response to its request… Read more: RFI: New Air Quality Request for Information

The SCFA filed a Request for Information concerning the campus-wide assessment of air exchange rates with the office Labor Relations, on March 17, 2023. ———————————– Thank you for fulfilling the recent RFI request to provide information on air flow exchange… Read more: RFI: Campus-Wide Assessment of Air Exchange Rates

SCFA sent EVC Kletzer the following letter on August 11, 2022, about teaching accommodations for instructors with immuno-compromised household members. If you haven’t already, please let us know if this or similar issues are of concern to you. Update: On… Read more: Fall 2022 instructors with immuno-compromised household members

February 14, 2022 Dear Cindy and Lori, We write to you with concerns raised by several faculty members about the process for attaining COVID accommodations for teaching modality. We share their concerns and raise the two primary issues that have… Read more: * Faculty Concerns regarding Covid-related Accommodations

August 26, 2021 Dear Colleagues, The SCFA Executive Board wanted to alert you to the below message we sent yesterday to campus administration. We have heard from members who have concerns about returning to in-person teaching next month in light… Read more: * Maximum Flexibility for Fall Instructional Delivery

Please 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

We learned today that the concerted and united efforts of many (including the Faculty Association) have been successful in getting UCSF to give up on its plan to affiliate with Dignity Health. This is an especially important fight, and victory,… Read more: * UC abandons plans for closer affiliation with Dignity Health