The San Diego Faculty Association and the undersigned faculty are shocked and outraged by UC San Diego’s decision to send riot police, including off-campus law enforcement, to arrest student protesters on May 6. Monday, on the first day of Justice in Palestine week, riot police arrested dozens of student protesters and medical personnel before any […]
Category: protest and collective action
Health Plan Costs: UC Union Coalition Follows Up with UCOP
We write to follow up on our message to you of October 31, 2023, in which the Council of UC Faculty Associations raised the alarm regarding the sudden, drastic increase in healthcare benefits costs to employees during Open Enrollment. 1600 faculty signed onto CUCFA’s October 30 letter protesting these increases, while an additional 400 faculty […]
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 […]
President Napolitano, please extend striking student health insurance for COVID-19
March 14, 2020 Dear President Napolitano, The Faculty Organizing Group at UCSC has just issued a very important letter to UCSC’s EVC Kletzer (copied below) in which they call for an act of “empathy, compassion, and responsibility” in reinstating the 80 graduate students fired for their participation in the COLA strike, because they are poised […]
UC abandons plans for closer affiliation with Dignity Health
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, in light of current efforts (some successful) to turn back the clock on Roe vs. […]