Thank you for your past support for the University of San Francisco’s Part Time Faculty Association. It means so much to us.

We need your help again. After months of stonewalling, the USF administration has walked away from negotiations, forcing us to file an Unfair Labor Practices claim with the National Labor Relations Board.

PTFA has been in contract negotiations with the USF administration since July 2021. Management began by demanding $600,000 in salary and benefit reductions, ostensibly because of financial damage USF suffered in the pandemic.

In fact, as they have known for months, USF was actually expecting an operating surplus of more than $26 million in 2021. The administration only took their demand for give-backs off the table two days before President Paul Fitzgerald announced that many USF employees — including all of upper management — would be receiving 5% salary bonuses.

Because our 2019 collective bargaining agreement provided for (much smaller) salary increases, PTFA members did not receive these one-time payments. And management continues to reject our extremely modest proposal for a 2% salary increase per year over the next two years. With inflation running above 7% per year, their proposed pay freeze is really an even larger pay cut for the more than 600 people who teach close to half the classes at USF.

Ask them to do the right thing for part-time faculty at USF. Ask them to send their team back to the table and negotiate a fair contract!

Thank you,

Members of the PTFA Executive Committee and Policy Board