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CFA Resolution on Job
Actions (10/23/06)
Over the weekend the CFA
General Assembly, consisting of representatives from all
twenty-three CFA chapters including San Marcos, met in Sacramento.
On Sunday, October 22, the following resolution was unanimously
approved:
Resolved: The CFA General Assembly
approves a general membership vote authorizing the CFA Board of
Directors to initiate job actions at the conclusion of the
statutory bargaining process if a contract has not been
successfully negotiated.
The date of this general membership vote
shall be determined by the CFA Bargaining Team in consultation
with the statewide officers, the Board of Directors, and the CFA
Council of Chapter Presidents.
These job actions may include rolling
walkouts, two-day strikes, and/or a systemwide strike.
This resolution means that your
representatives authorized the statewide CFA Board of Directors to
ask you, the statewide membership, for permission to initiate job
actions should the current impasse fail to produce an acceptable
contract. These job actions may not be taken without a general
membership vote and would occur at the conclusion of the current
statutory bargaining process.
The status of the statutory
bargaining process is that an impasse in negotiations has been
declared and we are currently in the mediation stage. Mediation is
non-binding and rarely successful. After mediation in November and
December, another impasse could be declared and we would go into
(non-binding) fact finding. If that fails, the CSU may impose its
"last, best" offer. The earliest this could happen would probably be
February 2007. At that point, job actions are legally allowed.
While a vote of the general membership authorizing job actions
is not eminent and CFA hopes to continue bargaining, CFA leadership
feels it is necessary to begin to plan future steps that can be
quickly implemented should they become necessary.
We remind
all Unit 3 faculty that only members of CFA will vote on job actions
and to approve a contract should one be offered that is acceptable
to the bargaining team. While all faculty have CFA fees deducted
from their paychecks, this does not necessarily mean you are a
member.
If you are unsure of your membership status, please
contact me. Of course we encourage everyone to become a member as
there is strength in numbers. To join CFA, click
here or ask a chapter officer for a membership form.
We
encourage you to join us on Wednesday, November 15th in Long Beach
for a rally at the Board of Trustee’s meeting. As one delegate
stated: "Picket now so you won’t have to later.” Demand that the
administration a) bargain fairly with the faculty; b) roll back
student fee hikes; and c) end the scandalous executive and
retirement perks that have been the source of statewide outrage and
return that money to the university.
We will have a bus
leaving our campus at 6:30 a.m. and returning around 2:00 p.m. Check
our CSUSM CFA website at www.csusm.edu/cfa for local and state CFA
news.
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