Faculty at California State University May Strike
As usual, it’s all about money.
The Los Angeles Times reported.
California State University faculty to vote on strike
A threatened strike by California State University faculty could extend to all 23 campuses of the nation’s largest public university system if an impasse over raises is not resolved, faculty union officials said Wednesday.
The California Faculty Assn. announced last week that it will conduct a 10-day vote beginning Oct. 19 on whether to walk out of classes amid stalled contract negotiations with the chancellor’s office.
The two sides are in mediation over salary increases for 2015-16, with management offering a 2% across-the-board pay hike and the faculty group demanding a 5% increase with an additional 2.65% boost for faculty at the lower end of the pay scale.
The union represents about 25,000 professors, lecturers, counselors, librarians and athletic coaches.
During a call with media Wednesday, union leaders said all options are on the table, from one-day strikes at selected campuses to rolling strikes that extend to all colleges in the system as well as other job actions.
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Because this is public sector “bargaining” in a deep blue state, there really is no “management” position. Public sector officials have no bottom lines to defend, what they spend is tax money. As for the faculty union, they obviously don’t care one bit about their students. Disrupting classes may set students back a semester toward their degrees, perhaps cost them an extra semester’s tuition. Unlike NY, with its Taylor Law, public employees can probably strike in California and they may well win, particularly with the support of the Democrat organization of which they are a political arm. Taxes in California are already outrageous, the state is nearly bankrupt. Businesses flee California because of its taxes and regulations. The losers in this labor dispute: taxpayers and students.