After four bargaining sessions on our re-opener articles and very little substantial movement from the CSU management bargaining team, the two reached impasse.

After a September 11 meeting with CSU management and a state-appointed third party for mediation, members of the CFA Bargaining Team left without a settlement. Subsequently, the mediator released the parties to factfinding. We are committed to entering factfinding as soon as possible, which will bring us another step closer to taking job actions. We must submit to factfinding before we can take job actions. In the meantime, we will have informational meetings and take action on all of our campuses and at upcoming Board of Trustees meetings.

The CSU management bargaining team described our proposals for systemic change as “devastating” to the University. Yet, they refuse to acknowledge the profound negative impact on students and faculty given their entrenchment in the status quo: under-resourcing Title IX programs, rejecting of adequate paid parental leave, offering pay that does not pace inflation, refusing to invest in mental health counseling, spending public funds on excessive executive salaries, and maintaining bloated administrative ranks, to name a few.