Dear Colleagues, On Thursday, December 1, Senate faculty received a potentially misleading email from the President’s Office of the University of California, titled “Regarding Faculty Rights and Responsibilities,” and signed by Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs Michael Brown. This communication fails to distinguish between being on strike and declining to pick up…
Dear colleagues, We have entered the second week of the UAW multi-unit strike. CUCFA is inspired by our fellow academic workers represented by UAW, who are fighting to create a UC where everyone can live with dignity in the place they work. We reaffirm our message to President Drake sent on November 11, 2022, with…
This is the second in a series of FAQ’s about the UAW strike. The first set of FAQs is available here. After publishing the FAQ’s below, we had more questions about grading which we answered in our third FAQ. Q1: I am teaching a class with assignments that are ungraded due to the strike. Do…
Thanks to the over 170 people who participated in the informational CUCFA/UAW Town Hall on Friday. We got to hear the latest on the bargaining issues and status of the strike from UAW President Rafael Jaime. In the lively Q and A that followed as we worked together to clarify Senate faculty rights and responsibilities…
November 11, 2022 President Michael V. Drake Office of the President University of California 1111 Franklin St., 12th Floor Oakland, CA 94607 Delivered via Email to: president@ucop.edu Dear President Drake, We are again writing to you as the leadership of the Council of UC Faculty Associations, CUCFA, the systemwide organization of Senate faculty. Last year…
(This is the first of three FAQ’s about the UAW strike. The second set addresses questions related to grades and grading. The third FAQ answered more questions about grading.) On November 14th, tens of thousands of academic workers represented by UAW 2865 (the Union of Academic Student Employees at UC), UAW 5810 (Postdocs and Academic…
Graduate students, postdocs, and other academic student employees are essential to the teaching and research mission of the University of California, especially as undergraduate enrollments rise. Given the escalating costs of living in California, 48,000 people in the UC system represented by three unions–UAW 2865, UAW 5810, and SRU-UAW–are coordinating their fight for living wages,…
August 30, 2022 Dr. Michael V Drake, President and UC RegentsUniversity of California Office of the PresidentUniversity of California 1111 Franklin St., 12th FloorOakland, CA 94607 Re: UCUC Urge Critical COVID Protections for Workers Dear President Drake and UC Regents: As you know, the University of California EPSL is set to expire September 30, 2022….
August 9, 2022 The Honorable Anthony Portantino Senate Appropriations Committee, Chair California State Capitol Sacramento, CA 94249-0061 RE: Assembly Bill 2046 — SUPPORT Dear Chair Portantino, On behalf of the Council of UC Faculty Associations, I am writing to express support for Assembly Bill 2046 authored by Assemblymembers Jose Medina and Adam Gray that establishes…
A report from CUCFA President Constance Penley from the National AAUP Convention: I attended the “historic” National AAUP convention on June 16-18 in Arlington, VA, as the CUCFA delegate, which meant that I had a vote on the proposed alliance between the AAUP and the AFT (AFL-CIO) and six open AAUP Council seats. “AAUP Concludes…
