The California Faculty Association (CFA) announced that 94.4% of its membership voted to authorize CFA’s Board of Directors to call a strike if the contract negotiations with California State University (CSU) management fail to produce a fair deal for the faculty and staff on the 23 CSU campuses. The talks, which began in May of 2014 and are in the final stage, have yet to result in an agreement.
CFA is pushing for increased faculty earnings through the “Fight for Five” campaign, referring to their request for a 5% General Salary Increase for all faculty. CSU management has refused to budge from its offer of a 2% salary increase for faculty in the second year of the contract.
Based on a study released in Spring of 2015, CSU faculty earn, on average, $45,000 per year in pay before taxes and other deductions with more than 50 percent of CSU faculty making less than $38,000 in gross earnings per year.
The negotiations are in the factfinding phase, which concludes with a report, from a neutral third party, that recommends how a settlement could be achieved. After reviewing the report, the CSU Chancellor has the authority to impose his “last, best offer” as a contract, and the faculty will have the right to strike.
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