An Independent Senate Faculty Union
An Independent Senate Faculty Union
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…
Dear Chancellor Larive and EVC Kletzer, In light of recent police use of excessive force and violence across college campuses nationwide, the SCFA Executive Board calls on UCSC campus leadership to reject pressure to criminalize student-led protests of Israel’s ongoing…
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…
This Senate Resolution to Defend Academic Freedom and Shared Governance will be discussed at the upcoming Senate meeting (March 13, 2:30-5pm). SCFA is one of the co-sponsors and we write to encourage you to 1) click here to join over 100 other Senate…
Dear colleagues, It has been a busy and distressing few months. As your union, we’ve been tracking a variety of issues that are impacting faculty work here at UCSC. This message includes information on SCFA activities related to: Effort report…
Dear Senate Faculty, Academic freedom is on many of our minds. For some of us, recent messaging from UCSC campus administration has raised concerns that our administrators may misinterpret faculty responsibilities in a way that could conflict with faculty rights.…
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…
Andrew Slobodien, JD Director of Labor and Employee Relations University of California, Santa Cruz Dear Andrew, Our apologies for not being specific enough in our previous RFI regarding staff FTE in positions that support faculty. Below please find a revised…