Bargaining Survey 2024

Greetings friends and colleagues,

We hope the Fall finds you well and that you are ready to gear up for CFA’s efforts to bargain a new contract. We know it seems like we were just in negotiations and going out on strike, but our contract expires June 30th, 2025. The limited re-opener we won in January brought some major achievements, including anti-racism and social justice victories around controls on interactions with police, improved access to gender inclusive facilities, increased parental leave, equity in compensation for our lowest paid, and a 10% raise over the twelve months from July 2023 to July 2024.

And yet there is still more we can do to improve in our contract. This survey will help guide the Bargaining Team and the Contract Development and Bargaining Strategy Committee (CDBS) as we build proposals and engage with management in negotiations.

Bargaining a new contract is central to what we do as a labor union, and foundational to our work as faculty in serving our students. We know that our working conditions are student learning conditions. Faculty, students, and their families must work together to ensure quality education and a rewarding campus environment for the sake of California’s future. We hope you will join us in this effort.

CFA has worked hard to strengthen our membership and improve working conditions for all faculty. CFA has resolved to position itself on the side of social justice, confronting racism and other institutional forms of oppression. As faculty, we see firsthand just how challenging it is for students to access the CSU, both financially and personally. We also know how challenging it is to commit ourselves to careers in faculty positions in the CSU. This, too, is part of our work in successor contract negotiations: not only ensuring fair workload and just salaries, but a quality of life and positive working conditions such that we can support our students, one another, and our families and communities in a sustainable, equitable, and just manner.

In preparation for successor negotiations, we need your help. We need to know what is most important to you so that we can focus our work at the bargaining table. We also need to know that faculty are ready to come together and fight for a fair contract as we did in the last academic year. Please take the time to complete this survey (it should take just 15 minutes or fewer) and let us know what you want to see in our next contract that will help support your needs and the needs of your family and your students.

Lisa Kawamura, CDBS Chair

Kevin Wehr, Bargaining Team Chair