April 16th, 2019 The Honorable Connie Leyva Senate Education Committee 1020 N Street, Room 545 Sacramento, CA 95814 RE: Senate Bill 715 (Galgiani) Position: Support Dear Senator Leyva: The Council of UC Faculty Associations supports Senate Bill 715 which would amend the public contracts code retroactively to 2015 adding Chapter 3.95 (commencing with Section…
The executive board of the Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA) joins the executive board of the California Conference of the American Association of University Professors to express unconditional support for the just demands of our colleagues and friends of the Union of Professional and Technical Employees (UPTE-CWA) and American Federation of State, County, and…
CUCFA President Constance Penley has written to Academic Senate Chair Robert May and Academic Senate Vice Chair Kum-Kum Bhavnani about our ongoing concern for the lack of shared governance, this time in UC’s implementation of suggestions made in the Huron Report. Here is a copy of her letter: Dear Professors May and Bhavnani, I am…
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…
Towards the end of May, CUCFA sent a letter to the leaders of UC’s new National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement, asking for their help in stopping the “Anti-Semitism Awareness Act” (ASAA) and H.R. 4508 (commonly known as the “Prosper Act”). Last week, Executive Director Deutchman responded to our letter. Our original letter…
June 21, 2018 President Janet Napolitano University of California 1111 Franklin St., 12th Floor Oakland, CA 94607 Email: president@ucop.edu Dear President Napolitano, The Board of the Council of UC Faculty Associations applauds you for your forthright support for UC’s undocumented students, your lawsuit against the Trump administration’s rescission of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA),…
May 30, 2018 Dear President Napolitano, Chancellor Gillman, Dean Chemerinsky and Executive Director Deutchman, The Council of the University of California Faculty Associations writes to you as Chair and officers of the National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement to express our strong concern about, and opposition to, two bills, that are presently before…
The Retiree Health Working Group convened by UCOP has released an Interim Summary of different options for saving UC money. The Working Group has not yet formulated its recommendations, which will go to President Napolitano on June 1. But it is safe to say that the overall impact of all these “savings” would be to…
CUCFA’s statement about AFSCME 3299’s new research report Pioneering Inequality: Race, Gender, and Income Disparities at the University of California: “This report proves essential reading for anyone concerned with ongoing economic, racial and gender disparities in the UC system. We urge immediate attention to its recommendations. UC workers and contracted employees deserve better. The UC…
Dear President Napolitano, The Council of UC Faculty Associations understands that UC has begun collective bargaining with the UC Student-Workers Union — UAW 2865. We find great merit in many of the Student-Workers bargaining goals, as outlined at: http://www.uaw2865.org/wp-content/uploads/UAW-2865-Final-2018-Bargaining-Goals-for-Ratification.pdf These goals include their desire for affordable housing, childcare, sanctuary campuses, demilitarizing UC police, and improving…
