Category: labor disputes

SDFA Suggests a Vote of NO confidence in Chancellor Khosla

The San Diego Faculty Association endorses the Senate resolution of  No Confidence in Chancellor Pradeep Khosla. Our recommendation is guided by the belief that the Chancellor’s decision to call militarized police forces to disperse the student encampment and to arrest students and faculty was a dangerous and unnecessary escalation that endangered our health and safety […]

Faculty letter in solidarity with grad workers

Post updated June 24, 2023 – SDFA would like to clarify that it endorsed the following faculty-authored letter in solidarity with 67 graduate student workers who are going through a student conduct process for their peaceful protest (including 18 who were not even present at the event) on May 5th, which now has 283 signatories: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1zo6cDELh_06_XQqwXVkckvuHiSFQQgy5vZF649iM9tA/edit#responses  […]

Joint Letter in Support of Librarian Academic Freedom

August 18, 2018 President Janet Napolitano University of California 1111 Franklin St., 12th Floor Oakland, CA 94607 Email: president@ucop.edu Joint statement by CUCFA and CA-AAUP: On July 26, 2018 UC negotiators rejected a proposal by the UC-AFT Unit 17 that academic freedom be recognized as a right of all UC librarians as academic employees. UC […]

UC Faculty Petition UC Administration To Negotiate in Good Faith with Student-Worker TA Union

The Santa Cruz Faculty Association (the SCFA, a sister chapter of the San Diego Faculty Association) invite ALL faculty — both Academic Senate members and AFT members — at ALL UC campuses to sign the petition at http://ucscfa.org/petition2/ Here is the SCFA’s letter introducing the petition: Dear Colleagues, For many of us, our teaching assistants […]

UC Faculty in Support of Graduate Students

Dear SDFA colleagues: At the end of September, the current 3 year-contract of UAW 2865 representing UC Academic Student Employees (GSIs, readers and tutors) expired and ASEs are now working without a contract. UCOP Labor Relations and UAW 2865 have not yet reached an official “impasse.” But the Berkeley Faculty Association is concerned that UCOP’s […]