COLA Strike Resources for Faculty and Statements of Support

Below are links to some COLA resources prepared by the Faculty Organizing Group for other faculty.

Language and advice for faculty responses to employment warning letters and student conduct hearings

Instructor letter for conduct summons (template)
Tips for faculty attending student conduct hearings
Instructor letter for warnings based on end-of-quarter grades
Advisor letter for warnings based on end-of-quarter grades
FOG letter in response to student conduct charges
Letter from history department in response to threats of discipline (2/6/20)
Summons sent via email to students (1/28/20)

Strike activity statements/letters

FOG (Faculty Organizing Group) Call for Solidarity with Striking Graduate Students (2/8/20)
Faculty letter in Response to the “Notification of Class and Section Disruption” Google Form (2/8/20)
SCFA strike correspondence (current as of 2/7/20)
Feb 10-11 strike participation form (2/7/20)
Nick Mitchell’s class cancellation message in response to request that students report on faculty (2/7/20)
Call for proposals for COLA picket line (2/7/20)

Statements/petitions from FOG and others

Virtual speak out: faculty statements of support for graduate students (2/4/20)
Petition starting in Humanities division in response to student discipline (1/31/20)
FOG Open Letter (12/12/1)
Faculty Petition in Solidarity with Graduate Students (12/6/19)

Mission

We are TAs, GSIs, Tutors, Readers, Student Researchers, Fellows, Postdocs, and Academic Researchers at UCSC. We are represented by our union, UAW 4811 (Formerly UAW 2865 and UAW 5810). In 2019/2020, workers at UCSC withheld labor for a Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA), and in 2022, our statewide union struck for 6 weeks over a COLA, arguing for a 54k base wage for all academic workers with the goal of raising the living conditions of academic workers across the state. Now, we are on strike for Divestment, Disclosure, Transitional funding for researchers, & Amnesty for all protestors.