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April 4, 2016
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Fact finding sides with CFA in faculty dispute
Issue 212.02
Hannah Jacobsen Staff Reporter
After the CSU system denied the results of the non-binding fact finding report, CSU faculty have the legal right to strike. The California Faculty Association (CFA) is likely to continue their planned five day all-campus strike in mid-April after the last stage of salary negotiations between CFA and the CSU—a fact finder report published on March 28—supported the CFA’s fight for five, giving them the legal right to strike. CFA and the CSU have been at odds since salary negotiations began in May 2015. CFA has been arguing for a five percent pay raise, partly due to the furlough days and loss of pay suffered when the Great Recession hit California’s economy. The CSU, however, has argued that the network of universities is still
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Faculty and Students march at state’s capital on March 30th | Photo courtesy California Faculty Association Facebook Page
very much recovering and cannot afford the price of a five percent increase. The fact that these negotiations reached the fact-finding stage defines the seriousness of the divide between these two groups. For salary re-opener negotiations, the parties went through two direct bargaining sessions and declared impasse, went through mediation without reaching an agreement, and were only then certified to a fact finder in October 2015 as a
last resort to prevent the impending faculty strike. The fact-finding report largely sided with the CFA, recommending faculty compensation through a five percent General Salary Increase (GSI) and Service Salary Increases (SSI) to approximately forty-three percent of the faculty. According to the report, the necessary money for these salary increases would come from a reallocation of money from other projects and a joint strategy
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to gain further financial support from the California Legislature and Governor. “During the most challenging economic times, the faculty agreed to forego negotiated increases and also endured a 10% cut in salary due to furloughs. A substantial GSI as well as SSI’s to the 43% of faculty who have not had them, along with the increases of the past year and targeted efforts is in the interest of students, who need caring faculty and certainly in the public interest as our country needs a well educated population,” the report wrote. CFA union representatives have concurred with the findings of the report, stating that it
validates both their proposal and their right to strike. “The fact finder’s report unambiguously supports the union’s bargaining proposal of a five percent pay raise for all CSU faculty and an SSI,” said CFA president Jennifer Eagan. “A neutral, outside voice has confirmed that these raises are affordable, reasonable, justified, and necessary.” While CFA finds validation within the conclusions, the results angered the CSU system by dissenting with their arguments and even challenging the research that they had done to come up with the cost of SSIs, in which the CFA determined from Continues on page 3
What adds up to the best of New café brews for the Cal State “The Division” LA student body The café celebrated its openrelease of “The Division,” many Janice Peregrina Contributor
The beginning of the spring quarter 2016 marks the opening of Café 47, named after the year Cal State Los Angeles opened to the public, which hosts a variety of foods and beverages, such as smoothies, sandwiches, pizza, and coffee products. Packaged snacks, like energy bars and bagged granola, are also
available in front of the counter in the queue. The coffee sold at Café 47 is from the Gaviña Gourmet Coffee Company, based in the city of Vernon and has been roasting coffee in Los Angeles since 1967. The noise level of the cafe is separated from the quiet of the study area by a single glass door, but Café 47 also has another entrance at the outside of the library to prevent any unnecessary disturbance.
ing a few days before the spring quarter started, and has grown steadily more popular since more people have started to hear about it, according to employee Heriberto Barocio Mendoza, a 19 year old freshman student.
“It’s hectic, but that’s how a lot of new places are,” Mendoza said. “The environment is really fun and everyone’s friendly.” Continues on page 4
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Tom Clancy’s newest venture into the gaming community comes in the form of an open world role-playing game (RPG). An RPG is seen as the most involved style of game, often taking a lot of time from the players. With the Ubisoft-produced
gamers were excited and now we are going to break it down and see just how good or how bad it really is. “The Division” is set in post-apocalyptic New York inhabited by survivors from the Black Friday-emanating disease, which spread from United States currency being passed along. "The Division" is a secret orga-
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