UPDATED: CSU faculty begins their first system-wide strike this week

Update, Tuesday, 1:39 p.m.: A tentative agreement was reached between California State University system management and the California Faculty Association union Jan. 22 in the evening. The CFA called off the week-long system-wide strike at that time. The tentative agreement includes a retroactive 5% general salary increase from July 2023 and a 5% general salary increase beginning July 2024. The agreement also settled on issues around parental leave, raising salary floors, union involvement in faculty-police interactions, gender-inclusive restrooms and lactation accessibility.
Produced by Susana Serrano. Story by Marco Guajardo.
Only days into the spring term, CFA leaders and members across 23 CSU campuses called for a system-wide strike, canceling most classes from Jan. 22-26. It came after the CSU chancellor and the CFA union failed to come to a bargaining agreement.
The CSU is the largest public university system in the United States. It serves over 450,000 students and employs 56,256 faculty and staff across 23 campuses.
Among the union’s demands for faculty, counselors, librarians and coaches are a 12% pay raise, increasing base pay for lowest-paid faculty, and more manageable workloads to allow for greater student support.
According to calstate.edu, CSU administrators offered the faculty union a 5% raise over the next three years, two additional weeks of paid parental leave, and accepted calls for concessions that included paid leave, department chair pay and gender-inclusive restrooms.
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