CSUEU for the first time offers a free webinar designed to help union stewards and members learn more about the issue of job merging.

Dispatchers' overtime pay grievance settled, CSUEU presses Chancellor for budget plan answers, CSUEU endorses March 4 National Day of Action, free job merging webinar set for Feb. 4, and more!

Governor's budget would increase CSU funding, Kiplinger's names CSU San Luis Obispo as a best value in public education, CSUEU participates in CSU Northridge faculty retreat, CSU Monterey Bay announces partnership with CSEA, and more!

On January 25, the CSUEU Board of Directors voted unanimously in favor of a resolution to support the March 4 National Day of Action to Defend Education, a grassroots effort to develop actions at campuses across the nation on March 4 in support of public education funding.

Legislation to impose a new severance tax on oil and natural gas extraction to help bolster higher education funding passed the Assembly's Revenue and Taxation Committee on Monday, as detailed in this January 12 Sacramento Bee article.

This January 6 Sacramento Bee article features a fascinating graph showing just how dramatically California state spending has shifted away from education in favor of prisons over the last few years.

CSUEU President Pat Gantt offers his perspective on the governor's proposed 2010-11 state budget, which was unveiled on the morning of January 8.

CSUEU President Pat Gantt represented the union in a January 5 media event via teleconference highlighting the increasingly united front of all of California's education unions in the face of statewide budget cuts. This coverage by the San Bernardino Sun quotes Gantt as saying, ""This period may be seen as the death of the master plan for higher education unless something is done." And this coverage from KCBS-AM in the Bay Area links to an audio report quoting Gantt at some length.

Governor Schwarzenegger's State of the State address, delivered on the morning of January 6, acknowledged the need for higher education support while threatening an overhaul of the current pension system, as this Sacramento Bee article outlines.

"The governor's message on higher education spending is encouraging, but we must wait to see the details in this Friday's budget presentation," commented CSUEU President Pat Gantt, referring to the governor's much-anticipated budget proposal presentation coming up this Friday morning, January 8. "His message on the state pension system is a signal that public pensions will be under attack and that we must prepare for a fight on the pensions front in the months to come."

Read the CSU's statement about the governor's address.

This December 31 California Budget Project essay outlines the CBP's choices for the worst budget and policy choices of 2009, all of which, CBP maintains, exacerbated California's increasingly dire budget crisis.