UC Faculty Walkout 9/24
Update: AAUP Endorses Walkout
To support this action, please send your name and affiliation to this addresss: ucfacultywalkout@gmail.com
Hundreds of UC professors, from all divisions and campuses, wrote in support of the 9/24 walkout during the first two days of the call. With that support, and more that is now pouring in, the letter posted below will be recirculated to faculty throughout the UC system shortly. Student organizations throughout the UC system have begun mobilizing in solidarity.
- The AAUP (American Association of University Professors) has endorsed this call for collective action: http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/newsroom/2009PRS/ucwalkout.htm
- UPTE, representing over 10,000 University Professional and Technical Employees, will strike on 9/24 in solidarity with faculty: http://www.upte.org/publication-mm/2009-08-31.html
- SAVE, a faculty organization at UC Berkeley, has called for a “Day of Education” on 9/24 in solidarity with the walkout:
http://ucfacultywalkout.wordpress.com/ - Article in the Daily Californian:http://www.dailycal.org/article/106486/uc_faculty_plan_walkout_to_protest_recent_budget_c
- STUDENTS: Berkeley Professor Catherine Cole’s open letter to UC students has been posted with the call for a faculty walkout here: http://berkeleycuts.org/
For more on the budget cuts at the University of California and California State University see the Workplace Blog