Cal State University faculty strike to protest salary dispute
The staffers say spending decisions made by officials threaten the quality of education at the university's 23 campuses.
By Carla Rivera, Los Angeles Times
November 18, 2011
Hundreds of California State University faculty members stayed out of class Thursday to protest a salary dispute and spending decisions that they say threaten the quality of education at the university's 23 campuses.
The California Faculty Assn., which represents 23,000 professors, lecturers, librarians and others, authorized the one-day strike at Cal State Dominguez Hills and Cal State East Bay but said the actions could spread to other campuses if Chancellor Charles B. Reed refuses their compromise proposals. It is the first strike since the union was formed in 1983.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-calstate-strike-20111118,0,7819537.storyFaculty salaries have gone up only 7% while top administrators' pay went up 70% in several years. The faculty are overworked, while more and more administrators make life miserable for everyone else in the CSU system.
There are 23 campuses in the CSU system. So far, only two campuses have had strikes, but there will probably be more.