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CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS FALL APART
LOCAL | CSU strikes back
CFA accused of leaving meeting CSU says proposal should have pleased CFA negotiators MICHAEL MUNOZ Daily Titan
WILLIAM CAMARGO / Daily Titan California State University faculty picket outside the Chancellor’s Office in Long Beach Tuesday morning. Members of the California Faculty Association plan to strike if negotiations fail.
Protesters voice exasperation Executive pay is one of the main talking points of the day MICHAEL MUNOZ Daily Titan
The California Faculty Association (CFA) staged a protest at the California State University Chancellor’s Office in Long Beach Tuesday morning to voice grievances about a new contract standstill. Armed with picket signs, speakers and a cardboard cutout of Chancellor Charles B. Reed holding a pile of money, protesters chanted,
“Education is under attack. What do we do? Stand up and fight back.” “We got them inside right now talking about ways the incoming president can make more money. Is that where their energy should be going?” said CFA President Lilian Taiz. “Instead, they should be talking about how to expand classes for students, how to insure (bringing) new faculty into this system.” “Instead, all they can worry about is the well-being of their executives: their home, their salaries and their cars … misplaced priorities, and we are going to come back here every day to see that their priorities are straight.”
Taiz said the CSU has spent years worrying about its presidents and, at the same time, raises student fees and not operating fairly with faculty and staff. “There’s a point where people just have had enough,” Taiz said. “These are hard times for everyone, but the only people who seem to be feeling the hard times are those of us in the trenches: faculty, student and staff.” The demonstration stems from negotiations over a new contract between the CFA and the CSU. Since the CFA contract expired 22 months ago, there have been strikes at two Cal State Universities
(East Bay and Dominguez Hills), hunger strikes and just recently the CFA voted to give authorization to its Board of Directors that if contract negotiations fail, members of the CFA will go on strike. “The demonstration is one of many ways that we want to let them know that this issue is not going away,” Taiz said. One of the major issues that the CFA has is the executive compensations, which was the focus of the CSU Board of Trustees meeting Tuesday. See CONTRACT, page 3
CAMPUS | Benefit concert
P.A.T.H.E. music to end slavery
Garcia explains goals MEC VALLE Daily Titan
KIMBERLY RODRIGUEZ For the Daily Titan
KIMBERLY RODRIGUEZ / For the Daily Titan Nhi Tran (right), 20, biology major, and Maggie Phu, 22, are selling jewelry in order to raise funds for Empower Nepali Girls, which gives scholarships to underprivileged girls.
“The average person does not want to hear about human trafficking or even know what it is, so it’s hard to get people to come,” said Project P.A.T.H.E. President Zeena Aljawad, 21, a psychology major. “We did what we could, and we can only hope that we opened a dialogue that people can have about this epidemic and notify people that it’s not something foreign. It happens here in Orange County,” Aljawad said. Kristine Kil, keynote speaker and program manager of CAS, said that most people do not realize human trafficking happens everywhere. Kil also said there are currently 57 cases of human
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trafficking being investigated here in Orange County. “I feel like a lot of people don’t know about it, even though it is one of the worst crimes. I think it’s so sad people don’t care,” said Karley White, 21, a women and gender studies major. In conjunction with spreading awareness, the night also consisted of entertainment, art and food. Native Astronomy, a rock band with a female lead singer and a drummer with a Darth Vader mask, opened the night. See P.A.T.H.E., page 5
See PROPOSAL, page 2
LOCAL | Presidential Q & A
Incoming president intends to take student sentiment into account
CSUF’s club against human trafficking looks to raise money and awareness on campus
Unlike the spring concert, Project P.A.T.H.E.’s (People Against Trafficking of Humans and Exploitation) fourth annual benefit concert Friday was not only for entertainment, but to bring awareness on the issue. The small number of students that attended the benefit concert, located in the Titan Student Union Underground Pub, helped the club pave the “path to justice” through donations. “This is for a purpose,” said Ashley Compton, 22, an Afro-Ethnic studies major and a member of Project P.A.T.H.E. Although there was a small audience, the club was able to raise roughly $300 in proceeds, half of which will go to California Against Slavery (CAS) and the other half to Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking Los Angeles (CASTLA). CAS focuses more on the legal side of human trafficking, while CASTLA provides more handson programs for survivors of human trafficking. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, human trafficking is the second largest crime industry in the world. Regardless of this fact, the small audience reflects the general population’s apathetic view on the issue.
The California State University (CSU) and California Faculty Association (CFA) bargaining over a new contract came to a standstill Saturday. The CSU alleged that it was the CFA walking away from the negotiation table. In a press release, the CSU accused the CFA of walking out of the meeting, leaving many from the CSU management team, including CSU Vice Chancellor of Human Resources Gail Brooks, “baffled” by the behavior. “We are very disappointed that CFA chose to walk out and we were not able to bring these negotiations to a successful conclusion,” said Brooks. “It appears to us that the only issue left on the table is the amount of taxpayer dollars that is paid for union leave time for the CFA president and political Action Committee positions. We have said all along that we want a new contract, and CSU remains willing to continue the negotiation process at any time to resolve these differences.” The CSU said they have addressed key issues such as faculty union with a settlement proposal that included a negotiated agreement on temporary faculty, evaluations, discipline, as well as extending fee waivers for dependents up to age 25. The CSU believed the proposal addressed key issues that the CFA would be pleased with. However, the CFA is less pleased with the stance the CSU is taking by releasing a statement that does not provide a clear picture of what actually happened at the negotiations meeting.
“It’s an interesting statement by someone who was not actually there, Gail Brooks has never shown up. In bargaining she has never been there, so it’s not a shock that she should get it wrong,” said Lillian Taiz, CFA president. Andy Merrifield, CFA chair of bargaining, said talks between the CFA and the CSU were progressive, especially when dealing with issues that concerned the CSU. Once those issues were resolved, the CFA hoped they could speak about issues concerning them. Issues of workflow, faculty rights and parental leave were some of the issues that the CFA said the CSU were unresponsive to. “The problem for us was that they were happy to talk about the things they wanted to take away from us, but the minute we tried to move to a conversation on what it would take to improve our lives modestly, they said, ‘We’ll talk, but we won’t do anything about it,’” Taiz said. Merrifield said the CSU was only concerned with issues that mattered to them and was an overwhelmingly one-sided conversation. “Our position is (that) we need balance: they get something, we get something,” said Merrifield. “We’re out of balance, they got more. We were trying to balance the equation. Give us a fair contract, (a) balanced contract, (and) they lost interest.” Taiz said they are willing to go back to the bargaining table once the CSU is willing to listen to their demands. “That is a fruitless conversation, and it really told us what we are dealing with. When they are ready to have a fruitful conversation about the needs of the faculty, we will be happy to talk to them,” Taiz said.
Cal State Fullerton has been undergoing a series of battles. Protests, rallies and opposition toward tuition increases are just some of the issues that the new president, Mildred Garcia, will have to endure. Garcia is currently the president of Cal State Dominguez Hills. Garcia was CSUDH’s seventh president and has been there since 2008. She has received recommendations from Cal State University Chancellor B. Reed and the Board of Trustees. Garcia was also appointed by President Barack Obama to the President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence of Hispanic Americans in July of 2011. She will begin her term at CSUF June 11. Q: What kinds of goals do you hope to accomplish as president? A: My first goal, which I have discussed since I was appointed and already started, is to listen to the campus community — students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members — I want
to know what they think and to hear what their hopes are for the future of (Cal State) Fullerton. In addition to those that will come forward, I also want to listen to the silences — seeking out those that are not sharing with me their views about our great university. The solid work done already, listening to the university and community constituencies will help to shape the goals and strengthen the Strategic Plan. Q: How do you plan on carrying out those goals? A: The input obtained and reviewing the recommendations from our visit by the team and the Commission of the Western Association of Schools & Colleges will help us shape the goals for the University’s Strategic Plan. The goals of the Strategic Plan will be defined and carried out collaboratively with faculty, students, staff and administrators across the entire campus. Each division and college will have their own goals that support the University’s Strategic Plan, and together we will create an implementation plan and timeline with accountability and benchmarks. See Q & A, page 2