California State Faculty May Strike Over Increase in Salary
Salary increases lately have been going to just administrators.
The College Fix reports.
California State faculty threaten to strike if they don’t get 5 percent pay increase
It’s easy to vilify campus administrators for their six-figure salaries and proliferation as universities increasingly rely on paycheck-to-paycheck adjunct labor to teach students.
So that’s what California State University union leaders are doing.
About 23,000 CSU faculty, mostly “instructional employees,” are voting over the next week whether to go on strike if their demands for a 5 percent pay increase this year aren’t met, union publication In These Times reports.
They got a salary increase in the last contract, which covered 2014-15, but want to make up for “years of literally zero” increases, according to Jennifer Eagan, the new president of the California Faculty Association:
Despite student body growth of 24 percent since 2004 and an increase of approximately $1 billion in tuition and fees generated during that same time, salary increases in the system have gone almost exclusively to university administrators like campus presidents and management, its so-called “one percent.” …
California State faculty threaten to strike if they don’t get 5 percent pay increase (The College Fix)