We’re building power towards an enormous statewide strike! Check out this statement of statewide faculty support for our ULP strike. Please help us build towards an enormous strike – sign up for phonebanking on Thursday and Friday, and/or email all your colleagues about the ULP strike pledge!
(Also find this statement at this link on the FOG website)
Inter-Campus Faculty Solidarity Network – Statement on Faculty Support for UAW ULP Strike – 20 April 2020
UC faculty at nine campuses have indicated their willingness to strike in solidarity with an Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) strike, if this action were to be called by the UAW 2865 UC Student-Worker Union. In less than a week, over 300 faculty, including both senate faculty and lecturers, have responded to a statewide survey created and circulated by our coalition. Of those who responded, 62 percent declared they would sympathy strike with a ULP strike.
This articulation of faculty commitment is in addition to multiple public statements by faculty, including those made by both the Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA) and Academic Council, calling on the university to refrain from punitive action against striking graduate students and to enter into negotiations with the union.
Graduate students’ labor is absolutely vital to the university’s teaching, research, and service missions. The UC can resolve this situation immediately by entering into negotiations and seeking a settlement to this labor dispute — we encourage them to do so. And, if they do not, we are ready and willing to act alongside graduate student workers in response to the university’s unfair labor practices.