Chico rally for AB 656, CSU receives stimulus funds, Annel Martin honored for service, March 4 set as statewide day of action, CalPERS election runoff, and more! 

As this November 9 Sacramento Bee article details, enterprise zones are just one more example of tax dodges costing Californians valuable dollars. Download the report from the Public Policy Institute of California that spurred this story.

The bargaining team today settled a statewide furlough grievance that had been filed shortly after the start of the furloughs program. The settlement lifts a restriction that the Office of the Chancellor had placed against employees taking more than one furlough day per week.

On November 4, the CSUEU bargaining team met with representatives of the CSU at the Office of the Chancellor to negotiate over exemptions to the furlough program and resolution of several outstanding grievances. We addressed a number of furlough issues and came to two agreements.

This opinion piece in the November 5 edition of the Los Angeles Times is an adaptation of comments by CSU Board of Trustees member Jeffrey Bleich at the board's September 23 meeting. Just nominated by the White House to serve as ambassador to Australia, Bleich bases his opinion about the important value of California’s Master Plan for Education on his own personal experience.

On October 23, the California Budget Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving public policies that impact low- to middle-income families, posted this update on recent losses of education-related jobs across the country.

Rally in San Francisco today for higher ed funding, actions statewide supporting AB 656, Gov signs and vetoes many bills, compensation Labor Management Committee minutes, and much more!

Mock funeral for California's Master Plan, Week of Action is coming to your campus, remember the call-back provision of the furlough agreement, CalPERS ballots due tomorrow, and more!

CSUEU President Pat Gantt offers his perspective on the state and CSU budgets.

Due to cutbacks caused by the budget crisis, community college students across the state are finding it increasingly difficult to transfer into the CSU system, as this October 6 Chronicle of Higher Education article explains.