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Bargaining
Update: CSU Finally Offers Serious Proposal
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Finally some decent news out of bargaining. The
CSUEU Bargaining Team met with CSU negotiators on Friday and
received a serious proposal with actual salary numbers.
Highlights of the proposed contract set to expire
June 2026:
- Year
1: 3% salary increase (effective when Tentative Agreement is
reached)
- Year
2: Salary step implementation (October 2024)
- Year
3: One salary step movement, plus a salary step
adjustment of 2% (October 2025)
- No
more than a $2 per month increase to the parking permit
fee
The CSU’s Steps proposal has 20 steps with all CSUEU
represented employees receiving the higher of the following:
a) the step rate that you would get determined by classification
longevity;
b) the next highest rate above what you are paid when moved to
steps; or
c) if you are above all the steps, you stay where you are.
Salary increases are contingent on the CSU receiving
Compact funds from the state of not less than $229
million. Our Bargaining Team is evaluating the CSU proposal.
There are many issues with it, but overall we are pleased that
the CSU is finally taking us seriously.
While this last proposal shows progress, experience
tells us we must keep the pressure on. Read more below about this week’s Summer of
Solidarity action to make sure the CSU knows its wall-to-wall
union workforce is standing strong together ready to do what it
takes to win.
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What can you do? Join CSUEU and become a member
today! It is critical for the CSU to see that we have the numbers
and the strength and we will not back down!
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Summer
of Solidarity: Act 2
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The CSU Board of Trustees meets this week and once
again they will have to deal with a powerful coalition of highly
dissatisfied CSU constituents. We were there in May for the last
Board meeting and we’ll be there again tomorrow. Students will
speak up to oppose proposed tuition increases. Student Assistants
will demand to be treated as valued workers. And support staff
and faculty will call to question the board’s stashing billions
in so-called “investments” while paying employees stagnant wages.
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CSUEU members will deliver a petition signed by
nearly 5,000 workers demanding that the University take concrete
action to address the ongoing crisis of recruitment and retention
– the result of paying its workforce below median market, as
shown in last year’s Mercer Salary Study.
The fight for fair pay extends beyond better compensation for CSU
employees. Vacancies and high turnover jeopardize the University
mission to deliver quality education to nearly half-a-million
students.
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The labor coalition will hold our second “Summer
of Solidarity” rally at the Office of the Chancellor during the
Trustees meeting on Tuesday. Follow along on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram for photos and
videos of the day’s actions!
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Student
Assistants Tell CSU:
Student Work Is Real Work
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The CSU has increasingly hired Student
Assistants in lieu of qualified union members to keep wages low
for everyone. As CSUEU President Catherine Hutchinson recently
told the L.A.
Times, “They truly are essentially a carbon copy of
me while I’m doing my job, but they don’t get the same protections
as us.”
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Student Workers building their union with
CSUEU will join union members tomorrow at the Summer of
Solidarity rally to demand fair treatment as workers.
Student Workers will also deliver more than 500
personal messages to the Board of Trustees about why the CSU
should respect student workers and their work.
Do you work with a Student Assistant? Share this link so they can write
their message today and we’ll deliver to the Board
tomorrow! Click the image to read what some Student
Assistants told the CSU about why student work is REAL work.
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CSUEU President Catherine Hutchinson recently
joined Central
Coast Voices, a program on KCBX San Luis Obispo, as
part of a panel discussion on organized labor.
Catherine shared with listeners what
motivated thousands of CSU Student Assistants to come together
and try to form a union - and why CSUEU members are ALL IN with
the Student Workers. Listen to the show here.
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Three UAW 2865 members were
arrested last week by campus police at UC San Diego on felony
charges of vandalism and conspiracy. The arrests follow an
action in May during which the members allegedly chalked up a
building with slogans like "Living Wage Now!"
The arrests appear to be an
escalation by UCSD in its campaign to intimidate workers for
attempting to hold UC accountable to the contract they agreed to.
UCSD has so far threatened to expel 67 members for engaging in
protests and are now using UCPD to arrest members for engaging in
peaceful protest.
Sign the petition to
tell the UC to drop their charges against protesters!
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