Cal State faculty holds vote to authorize strike

by E Wayne Ross on April 16, 2012

Cal State faculty holds vote to authorize strike

LOS ANGELES—Some 24,000 California State University employees are beginning a two-weeklong vote on whether to authorize their union to declare a strike after 22 months of negotiations failed to yield a new contract.

Members of the California Faculty Association, which represents professors, librarians, coaches and counselors across the system’s 23 campuses, start voting Monday and have until April 27 to say whether they authorize the union’s board of directors to call a two-day strike at an unspecified date.