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The Star Phoenix: Faculty postpones strike vote

Published: Monday, March 05, 2007

A strike vote has been postponed by the University of Saskatchewan Faculty Association (USFA) because progress has been made in negotiations with the university’s bargaining team, according to the association.

About 500 USFA members met Saturday afternoon at Praireland Park to discuss negotiations and vote to approve job action.

Inside Higher Ed: Mammoth Faculty Strike Looms

Many Californians know the concept behind rolling blackouts, most commonly seen during summer heat waves, in which communities go without power at different times in order to conserve energy while preventing a region-wide shutdown.

Students in the massive California State University system might soon need to familiarize themselves with another term: the rolling faculty walkout.

The union that represents roughly 24,000 Cal State instructors is planning to hold votes beginning in early March to determine whether to strike if its salary demands aren’t met by the system’s administration. The California Faculty Association says the faculty walkout, which would be the first of its kind in system history and potentially the most massive in the history of higher education, would likely take place this spring at different intervals across the 23-campus system to send a message to Cal State leaders while preventing a systemwide shutdown. The system enrolls some 400,000 students.

The Bakersfield Californian: CSUB faculty to vote on authorizing strikes soon

Faculty at Cal State Bakersfield will vote in early March if they should strike.

The California Faculty Association’s board of directors voted Tuesday on whether they wanted members — about 24,000 statewide — to vote to move forward with a strike.

If 50 percent plus one of the association’s membership authorizes them, rolling two-day strikes could start in late March or early April, said John Travis, association president.

The Bakersfield faculty will vote March 5 through 8, said Larry Taylor, president of the campus chapter of the faculty association.

Daily Aztec: CFA plans to vote: CSU faculty members could strike or quit

California Faculty Association members have said that when it comes to strikes, they don’t want to, but they will. That motto is plastered on fliers across San Diego State.

These words are turning into a force behind faculty potentially quitting as the CFA board of directors on Tuesday night authorized scheduling a vote to strike across the 23 California State University campuses.

“The (CSU) administration has refused to offer faculty a living wage and falsely promoted their unfair alternative proposal at a much higher level than it is,” CFA President John Travis said during a conference call on Wednesday. “Now, the faculty are going to have the opportunity to let their voice be heard on whether or not they want to move forward with job actions.”

SDSU faculty members “will definitely be voting in the first week around March 5 through 8,” CFA communications director Alice Sunshine said during Wednesday’s conference call.

Ventura County Star: CSU is mulling a major strike

Faced with a labor-negotiation impasse, the directors of a union representing some 24,000 California State University faculty members are calling for a membership vote on whether to press forward with a strike.

It would be the first strike by CSU faculty over contract negotiations in the history of the university. It would also be the largest strike of its kind in the nation. With an estimated 400,000 students on 23 campuses, CSU is the largest university in the United States.