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Workers and Students Presented Findings in Tuesday Zoom Conference Oakland:  In research presented in a webinar this morning and streamed live on Facebook, a coalition of University of California Unions representing nearly 100,000 UC employees has found that UC has dramatically increased its cash reserves since the 2008 recession, and currently has billions of dollars…

The current crisis has brought into focus the extreme precarity that contingent faculty live with year in and year out. UC-AFT (the union that represents UC lecturers) is circulating a pledge that asks ladder rank faculty at the University of California to demonstrate solidarity in a very concrete way, and CUCFA is endorsing this pledge….

Below is a letter The Council of UC Faculty Associations and other unions and student groups delivered to UC President Napolitano, the Board of Regents, the Chancellors, and the Medical Center CEOs. It is an enumeration of our concerns and suggestions for dealing with the financial consequences of COVID-19. May 13, 2020 Dear University of…

The federal government, which is not required to be balanced each year as California’s state budget is, has a unique ability to engage in countercyclical spending in times like the current crisis. CUCFA has signed on to the following letter: April 27, 2020 Dear Speaker Pelosi, Minority Leader McCarthy, Majority Leader McConnell, and Minority Leader…

March 16, 2020 TO:       President Janet Napolitano FROM: Council of UC Faculty Associations We write to ask you to delay the start of spring quarter by two weeks, to begin on April 13 rather than March 30. We came to this solution following an intensive discussion among our members about the challenges of moving to…

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…

Should UC affiliate with religious health systems that prohibit choice in reproductive health care and LGBTQ-inclusive care? Those prohibitions are based on policies written by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and not on any recognized medical standard of care. The policies discriminate against women, non-binary people, and transgender patients by restricting or prohibiting the…

Dear President Napolitano, We share with you a commitment to the mission of the University of California. Your February 14 letter to the UC Santa Cruz community, however, raises concerns among faculty across the UC system about how best to address the crisis under which many of our graduate students live. This is a crisis…

Governor Gavin Newson presented his 2020-21 state budget proposal last Friday. The full budget summary is here. The detailed budget is also online, and the UC portion can be found here. UC Board of Regents Chair John Pérez and UC President Janet Napolitano quickly put out a statement thanking the Governor, concluding: “UC appreciates the…

The Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA) recognizes that the teaching excellence of UC depends in no small part on lecturers, who teach many of our courses (in one UC campus study, more than 40%, in terms of student credit hours). Lecturers, represented by the University of California-American Federation of Teachers (UC-AFT), are currently engaged…