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 Read More …
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: Read More …
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 Read More …
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 Read More …
(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 Read More …
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 Read More …
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: Read More …
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 Read More …
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 Read More …
Below is a letter from Constance Penley, on behalf of the Council of UC Faculty Associations, to Professor Madeleine Sorapure, Chair of the UC Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools, in support of the UC Ethnic Studies Faculty Council-authored Read More …