http://www.csueu.orgThe California State University Employees Unionen-USCopyright CSUEU (SEIU Local 2579)jwatson@calcsea.org May Revise calls for increased CSU funding, San Jose State philosophy professors balk at MOOCs, Koch brothers aim to take over the L.A. Times,...Thu, 16 May 2013 18:31:22 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=860&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=860&amid=424 May 14 -- In his state budget May Revise presentation this morning, Gov. Jerry Brown continued to call for stronger CSU funding over the next ...Tue, 14 May 2013 18:27:27 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=859&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=859&amid=424 As if it weren’t enough to pour millions of dollars into states across the country in support of measures to kill public sector collective bargaini...Thu, 09 May 2013 22:01:15 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=858&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=858&amid=424 Lobby Day results in 100-plus legislator meetings, wildfire causes evacuation of the CSU Channel Islands campus this morning, budget subcommi...Thu, 02 May 2013 20:41:46 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=857&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=857&amid=424 State Senate pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) believes SB 520 would help students who cannot get the classes they need to move toward gradu...Fri, 19 Apr 2013 22:45:27 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=856&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=856&amid=424 Union members in Boston answer the call of duty, CSULA is shut down today after bomb threat, CSUEU supports statewide "Forward on Healthcare" ...Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:06:37 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=854&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=854&amid=424 New poster honors CSUEU activism, check out Mike Geck's new blog, Assemblyman Wilk proposes a new state university system requiring no classes, and...Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:53:11 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=853&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=853&amid=424 Check out the debut entry of VP for Organizing Mike Geck's new blog, The Bullhorn, which he describes as "a place where we can share informati...Wed, 27 Mar 2013 22:41:53 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=852&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=852&amid=424 Assembly Speaker John Perez stresses CSU and UC affordability at yesterday's PPIC forum, CSU recommends a compensation pool for the 2013-14 CSU bud...Fri, 22 Mar 2013 20:34:26 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=850&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=850&amid=424 March 19: In a March 18 press conference, CSU Assistant Vice Chancellor Robert Turnage outlined budget recommendations to be made to the CSU Board ...Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:54:30 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=849&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=849&amid=424 A two-day CSU Board of Trustees meeting begins on the morning of Tuesday, March 19, and you can view a live webcast by going to <a href="http://www...Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:00:19 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=848&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=848&amid=424 An Associated Press report publish...Wed, 13 Mar 2013 23:16:33 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=847&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=847&amid=424 Sequester cuts are sure to hurt California, CSEA VP Russell Kilday-Hicks sends greetings to CSUEU, the University of Phoenix faces possible probati...Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:57:42 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=846&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=846&amid=424 Public voter records show a remarkably high CSUEU voter turnout in last November's election, California Budget Project charts help explain Gov. Bro...Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:58:08 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=845&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=845&amid=424 New PPIC report documents huge CSU budget cuts since 2008, the latest statistics show that Latinos and nurses help California unions grow...Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:26:57 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=844&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=844&amid=424 <img border="0" alt="" align="left" width="64" height="95" src="/Portals/0/Article...Fri, 25 Jan 2013 23:39:54 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=843&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=843&amid=424 Gov. Brown delivers upbeat State of the State address this morning and rebuffs appeals for more CSU funding at last Tuesday's CSU Board of Tru...Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:42:03 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=842&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=842&amid=424 Gov. Brown's proposed budget includes more CSU funding, including $125.1 million over this year's budget and reinstatement of $125 million that was...Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:37:47 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=841&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=841&amid=424 The tax package that Congress passed on New Year’s Day is the right move to protect America’s middle class families. In recent weeks, cuts-only adv...Fri, 04 Jan 2013 01:19:03 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=840&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=840&amid=424 Approved from 1978 to 2012, these initiatives have had significant impacts on the state budget. Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:47:53 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=839&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=839&amid=424 December 20: Last week, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder signed right-to-work legislation prohibiting unions from requiring workers to pay dues or rep...Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:20:16 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=838&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=838&amid=424 Fullerton lockdown yesterday, fiscal cliff's implications for California, more legislators turn down per diems, and more... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:56:34 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=837&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=837&amid=424 Prop. 30's passage leads to record CSU applications, unions unfairly get the blame for Hostess bankruptcy, deadlines approach for leave balances an...Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:41:01 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=836&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=836&amid=424 Election results and political victories, CSU Board of Trustees postpones discussion of new student fees, new CSU chancellor requests a 10 per...Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:52:11 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=835&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=835&amid=424 Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:49:16 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=834&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=834&amid=424 November 7: As of this morning, Prop. 30 has passed by a margin of 53.9 vs. 46 percent, and Prop. 32 has been rejected by a resounding margin of 56...Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:33:05 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=833&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=833&amid=424 Gov. Brown visits Chico State to discuss Prop. 30, FPPC sues to expose $11 million campaign donors, and more! Thu, 01 Nov 2012 19:16:05 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=832&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=832&amid=424 In a new two-minute video , California Budget Project Policy Analyst Hope Richardson d...Tue, 30 Oct 2012 22:40:02 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=831&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=831&amid=424 This October 19 Sacramento Bee editorial pulls...Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:52:31 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=830&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=830&amid=424 Bill Clinton backs Prop. 30 and opposes Prop. 32, CalPERS OKs huge hike for long-term care insurance, Almanac of Higher Education 2012 paints ...Thu, 18 Oct 2012 19:47:32 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=829&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=829&amid=424 This is a test to see what happens with the Rich Text Editor on this site. Tue, 09 Oct 2012 17:27:15 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=828&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=828&amid=424 UC Riverside's Timothy White to be the next CSU chancellor, new online pledge card for the November election, Chapter 319's webmaster des...Thu, 04 Oct 2012 20:23:14 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=827&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=827&amid=424 October 4: CSU administrators announced this morning that UC Riverside Chancellor Timothy White has been selected to serve as the next chancellor o...Thu, 04 Oct 2012 17:33:35 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=826&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=826&amid=424 October 2: This insightful <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/andy-kroll/california-higher-education_b_1932163.html?icid=hp_front_fea...Tue, 02 Oct 2012 19:53:29 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=825&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=825&amid=424 Secretary of State Bowen rolls out online voter registration, CSU board adopts contingency measures if Prop. 30 fails, a first-hand account fr...Fri, 21 Sep 2012 19:09:31 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=824&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=824&amid=424 September 18: CSUEU President Pat Gantt released this statement in response to CSU's September 17 announcement that its Board of Trustees ...Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:58:01 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=823&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=823&amid=424 As this September 15 Los Angeles Times article ex...Mon, 17 Sep 2012 00:12:23 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=822&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=822&amid=424 Sacramento Bee contributor Peter Schrag goes into detail about all the reasons to vote against Prop. 32, the November ballot measure that ...Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:00:49 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=821&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=821&amid=424 September 11: This new California Budget Project Budget Brief examines Proposition 30, which will appear on the November 6 statewide ballot. Reject...Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:11:00 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=820&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=820&amid=424 Chapters across the state meet to discuss Props. 30 and 32, the California legislature approves a new pension reform bill, CSUEU's Russell Kilday-H...Thu, 06 Sep 2012 21:09:51 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=819&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=819&amid=424 In this scathing August 31 edit...Sat, 01 Sep 2012 01:28:42 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=818&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=818&amid=424 CSUEU released the following comments today in response to Governor Brown Jr.’s announcement of a sweeping pension reform agreement. Wed, 29 Aug 2012 01:12:43 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=817&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=817&amid=424 Prop. 30 will help save education programs, new poster honors CSUEU's women activists, watch CMA's Golden Bear cross the Panama Canal, CSEA General...Thu, 23 Aug 2012 19:21:41 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=816&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=816&amid=424 Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Hiltzik, a staff member of the Los Angeles Ti mes for more than 20 years, exposes the real goal o...Mon, 20 Aug 2012 18:39:30 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=815&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=815&amid=424 CSUEU President Pat Gantt was one of the featured guest speakers at an August 16 California Maritime Academy lunch devoted to the No...Fri, 17 Aug 2012 22:27:26 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=814&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=814&amid=424 August 14 -- John Logan, a professor at San Francisco State University, just posted this <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/campaign/2...Wed, 15 Aug 2012 04:01:18 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=813&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=813&amid=424 No on 32 Q&A and speaker training, opinion pieces about city bankruptcies and pension plans, plus a look at HBO's "The Newsroom" and its handli...Wed, 08 Aug 2012 19:16:00 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=812&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=812&amid=424 This July 30 USA Today edi...Tue, 31 Jul 2012 17:36:49 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=811&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=811&amid=424 CSU trustees weight trigger cut options as they bestow president pay hikes, Prop. 32 is intended to hurt unions, studies show that union membe...Fri, 27 Jul 2012 18:03:21 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=810&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=810&amid=424 In this July 24 article , Sacramento Bee columnis...Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:46:38 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=809&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=809&amid=424 This July 20 communication from CSUEU President Pat Gantt addresses the budget options that were discussed at the July 17 CSU Board of Trustee...Fri, 20 Jul 2012 19:00:18 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=808&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=808&amid=424 This July 18 KABC-TV Los Angeles news coverage of pay hikes for incoming CSU campus pres...Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:04:47 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=807&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=807&amid=424 July 17, 2012 -- Pat Gantt characterized pay hikes for several incoming CSU campus presidents as "insensitive, rude, ill-advised, and poorly timed"...Wed, 18 Jul 2012 01:33:31 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=806&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=806&amid=424 As outlined in this July 17 <e...Tue, 17 Jul 2012 23:20:02 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=805&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=805&amid=424 James “Larry” Norton, 74, of San Rafael, has been appointed to the California State University Board of Trustees. Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:43:45 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=804&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=804&amid=424 CSU Board of Trustees to vote on pay hikes for new presidents, CSUEU statewide election results, Election Committee Chair Andrew Coile shares his t...Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:53:47 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=803&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=803&amid=424 The governor has appointed Lupe Garcia of Gap Inc. and Hugo Morales of Radio Bilingüe Inc. as new CSU trustees. Fri, 06 Jul 2012 22:14:36 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=802&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=802&amid=424 Gov. Brown's pension reform initiatives have been delayed until after the July legislative recess, as explained in this July 3 <a hre...Wed, 04 Jul 2012 17:07:52 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=801&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=801&amid=424 Washington, DC – SEIU President Mary Kay Henry issued this statement in response to the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court today to uphold the Affo...Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:25:54 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=800&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=800&amid=424 Governor signs state budget, how-to tips for responding to articles that bash pensions for public workers, new report challenges trustees' prioriti...Thu, 28 Jun 2012 18:34:30 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=799&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=799&amid=424 New York Times opinion columnist Paul Kru...Mon, 25 Jun 2012 05:02:03 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=798&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=798&amid=424 In this thought-provoking June 20 article , Reuters colu...Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:27:47 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=797&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=797&amid=424 CSU and state budget updates, primary election commentaries, "zombie loopholes" exposed, CalPERS retirement fairs, and more! Thu, 14 Jun 2012 19:24:38 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=796&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=796&amid=424 Chancellor Reed announces his retirement, CSU spends $2 million on campus presidents' home renovations, CSUEU officers participate in the SEI...Thu, 31 May 2012 17:15:02 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=795&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=795&amid=424 As this May 28 Los Angeles Times arti...Tue, 29 May 2012 16:52:05 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=794&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=794&amid=424 Gov. Brown's May Revision avoids direct cuts to the CSU, CSUEU statewide elections are underway, Sen. Leiu calls for Chancellor Reed to resign, and...Thu, 17 May 2012 16:37:04 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=793&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=793&amid=424 In his state budget May Revise presentation this morning, Gov. Jerry Brown called for a variety of solutions to help erase a budget deficit that ha...Mon, 14 May 2012 19:50:09 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=792&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=792&amid=424 May 9: At the CSU Board of Trustees meeting in Long Beach yesterday and today, the trustees spent a great deal of time reviewing ways to reduce cos...Thu, 10 May 2012 00:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=791&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=791&amid=424 <img border="1" alt="" align="left" width="61" height="90" sr...Wed, 09 May 2012 18:35:24 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=790&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=790&amid=424 Chapters gather 2700+ signatures to qualify governor's measure for the November ballot, CSUEU reviews accounting and budget job classification...Thu, 03 May 2012 20:50:05 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=789&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=789&amid=424 This insightful May 2 Sacramento Bee editor...Wed, 02 May 2012 20:08:20 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=788&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=788&amid=424 May 1 -- This is an important election year for CSUEU members, in part because proposed Initiatives for the general election this fall wi...Tue, 01 May 2012 18:58:55 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=787&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=787&amid=424 Signature gathering for Gov. Brown's tax initiative enters its final phase, CSU Monterey Bay chapter President Cyndi Olvera provides&#160...Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:07:32 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=786&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=786&amid=424 April 16: CSU administrators are trying to sneak a cut in grad student assistance past grad students. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:11:34 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=785&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=785&amid=424 Board of Directors endorses plan to gather signatures for Gov. Brown's revised tax initiative, chapter elections update, Labor Federation unveils "...Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:09:07 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=784&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=784&amid=424 Bargaining agreement is ratified, tone-deaf CSU board approves more executive pay hikes, Chico State Chapter President describes how her campus ins...Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:28:31 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=783&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=783&amid=424 The CSU Board of Trustees approved massive pay increases for CSU executives yesterday. They’re for two incoming campus presidents, including $324,5...Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:46:00 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=782&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=782&amid=424 (March 20, 2012) – Following earlier ratification by the California State University Employees Union (CSUEU), the California State University Board...Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:47:19 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=781&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=781&amid=424 CSU Employee Union members have overwhelmingly voted in favor of the tentative agreement for a new contract with the CSU. Fri, 16 Mar 2012 23:16:30 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=780&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=780&amid=424 The CalPERS Board announced today that it is increasing the cost of purchasing Additional Retirement Service Credit (ARS...Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:55:27 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=779&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=779&amid=424 Tentative agreement ratification process update, thousands hit the Capitol for higher education, Russell Kilday-Hicks' first-person account of walk...Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:33:18 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=778&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=778&amid=424 In this March 2 ...Sat, 03 Mar 2012 20:20:29 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=777&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=777&amid=424 A march in the morning, ...Sat, 03 Mar 2012 01:40:20 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=776&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=776&amid=424 As this February 28 San Francisco Chronicle article <...Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:31:21 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=775&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=775&amid=424 Students, teachers, workers, and parents from all levels of education, from pre-school through higher education, have joined together to declare Th...Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:36:50 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=774&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=774&amid=424 Chapters continue meeting about the tentative agreement, the CSUEU Board of Directors affirms support for National Days of Action for Education, ne...Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:10:20 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=773&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=773&amid=424 The so-called "Corporate Deception" ballot initiative, also known as the "Paycheck Deception" measure, is set to go on the ballot this fall an...Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:27:12 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=772&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=772&amid=424CSEA President J.J. Jelincic explodes a few myths about pensions in this guest commentary for the February 4, 2006, edition of the Contra Costa T...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=28&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=28&amid=424 CSU disputes the public's right to obtain electronic records free of charge, says newspaper. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=37&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=37&amid=424 LA Daily News, March 23, 2006. Total bound for four-year colleges, at 23%, is second-lowest in nation. California sends a smaller percentage of hig...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=45&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=45&amid=424 Chico News & Review publishes salaries of CSU Campus Presidents. Do YOU think they're justified? Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=36&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=36&amid=424 The CSU has delivered its "sunshine" proposals for the new round of collective bargaining, and the union has responded. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=34&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=34&amid=424 On March 29, the CSU presented their initial bargaining proposals to the union on the campus of CSU Long Beach. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=47&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=47&amid=424 This op/ed piece by CSEA Retired Division President Barbara LaPlante appeared March 23 in Capitol Weekly, a Sacramento-area newspaper with a circul...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=48&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=48&amid=424 "Picket to drum up support for union during new contract negotiations with chancellor's office," says SFSU campus paper. See the <A href="/Pho...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=49&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=49&amid=424 The bargaining team met at CSU San Bernardino April 10-12. During the three-day session, CSUEU and CSU discussed Articles 1, 2, 4, 10, 11, 12, 13 a...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=50&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=50&amid=424 How Gloria Negrete McLeod relied on community connections and grassroots campaigning by her large family to win a seat in the state Assembly. Daugh...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=58&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=58&amid=424 East Bay campus newspaper, The Pioneer, catches CSUEU members on the march. (From the April 27 edition.) Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=59&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=59&amid=424 CSU staff and faculty joined the Union's bargaining team in a march around the campus of CSU East Bay on April 26 in support of Raises, ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=60&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=60&amid=424 Trustee Hauck Leads Business Group That Favors Tuition Increases. San Jose Mercury News, May 3, 2006. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=61&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=61&amid=424 Union leaders and a legislator ask whether Cal State was really obligated to take back the ex-Getty chief. CSU official scoffs at critics. Los Ange...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=62&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=62&amid=424 Charging that California State University has made staff and faculty its lowest priority, members of the California State University Employees Unio...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=63&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=63&amid=424 Employees Union hopes to strike a deal before contract ends. More than 300 California State University faculty and staff members from San Diego Sta...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=64&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=64&amid=424 Please call Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez in his Los Angeles District Office at (213) 620-4646. Mainly due to the calls you made to key legis...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=65&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=65&amid=424 An exerpt from the June 12 edition of Contract Negotations News (2006 Alert #7). Two more bargaining sessions are scheduled this month. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=66&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=66&amid=424 Frustrated CFA leaders and staff watched Saturday as the Assembly/Senate Budget Conference Committee voted 6-0 to accept the Senate version of the ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=67&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=67&amid=424 San Francisco Chronicle, July 18, 2006. Second of Two Parts. History instructor Lillian Taiz taught for 10 years in various college classrooms...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=70&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=70&amid=424 Chancellor gives special perks to some departing executives. San Francisco Chronicle, July 17, 2006. First of Two Parts. Millions of dollars worth ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=69&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=69&amid=424 San Francisco Chronicle Editorial, July 19, 2006. The investigative articles on the California State University system by Chronicle staff writ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=71&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=71&amid=424 Associated Press, Tuesday, July 18, 2006. Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez on Tuesday called for a legislative audit of California State University af...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=72&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=72&amid=424 Monterey Herald editorial, July 20, 2006. When the Sa...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=73&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=73&amid=424 Weekly news digest from the California Faculty Association. July 25, 2006. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=74&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=74&amid=424 Sacramento Bee editorial, July 28, 2006. Pay arrangements in a public university system are supposed to serve the state's interest i...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=77&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=77&amid=424 July 28,2006. CFA and CSUEU have called for a Town Hall Meeting at SFSU this fall to discuss CSU executive compensation issues. Here is CFA P...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=76&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=76&amid=424 San Francisco Chronicle, August 4, 2006 (AP). A judge has ruled that University of California regents can't decide how much to pay top ex...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=79&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=79&amid=424 A misleading message from the chancellor’s office suggested that the administration had offered the faculty a 20.75% salary increase package over f...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=80&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=80&amid=424 Here are some "Dogging Arnold" events. Please help us turn out crowds so Arnold does not get a free ride. We will be identifying other targeted eve...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=83&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=83&amid=424 CSU Bakersfield Chapter 310 President Ray Finnell’s address at the convocation on the first day of the fall semester, where he called on CSUB Presi...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=84&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=84&amid=424 From Inside Bay Area, 9/3/06. In the most comprehensive survey the campus has conducted in years, students at California State University, East Bay...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=85&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=85&amid=424 Rallies across the state, along with hundreds of emails, letters and phone calls to the Office of the Chancellor, campus presidents, and members of...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=88&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=88&amid=424 Long Beach -- Top executives in the California State University system are compensated significantly more than previously announced but, according ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=90&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=90&amid=424 Are you tired of the CSU's continued assertion that it lacks the funds to properly compensate faculty and staff, while at the same time paying mamm...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=91&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=91&amid=424 Members have been asking questions. How long will contract negotiations go on? How can we emphasize the seriousness of these deliberations, an...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=92&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=92&amid=424 Time Magazine: Upset over Gov. Schwarzenegger's education policies, C...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=93&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=93&amid=424 Humboldt State University staff members held a protest Friday October 13, 2006, to draw attention to what the staf...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=94&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=94&amid=424 The Eureka Times Standard reports on our contract negotiations with the CSU. Includes...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=96&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=96&amid=424 California Faculty Association says CSU ads are misleading. From the Sacramento <A href="http://www.statehornet.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/10/18/...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=97&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=97&amid=424 About the scheduled CSU Trustees meeting, professors say it was like "university executives ordering champagne when faculty and students subsisted ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=98&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=98&amid=424 Faculty wants new parking structure to be open for all. From the <A href="http://www.statehornet.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/10/25/453e9847c5...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=100&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=100&amid=424 Barry Munitz, former head of CSU, resigns from Getty Trust. State attorney general is investigating. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=30&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=30&amid=424 Demonstrators visit Long Beach to protest lagging wages. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=29&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=29&amid=424 Assembly legislation aims for predictability. UC wants guaranteed state funding before the bill is passed. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=27&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=27&amid=424 At the CSU Board of Trustees meeting on October 27, 2005, faculty, staff and students got a chilling look at the future should the Governor's propo...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=13&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=13&amid=424 UC Senior Management Severance Pay Plan gives top execs huge checks. UC President Richard Atkinson, $322,534. UC Irvine Chancellor R...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=23&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=23&amid=424 Even as he pushes a massive infrastructure bond plan, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Tuesday he will continue fighting for some of the reforms he ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=19&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=19&amid=424 The 2006-07 Governor’s Budget now projects that the state will be able to fund much more than a current-law budget and still maintain fiscal balanc...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=14&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=14&amid=424 Study suggests that in the long run, it would actually save taxpayers money. California's college-age population is growing, and if the state doesn...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=11&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=11&amid=424 Funding Enrollment Growth at UC and CSU. Year-to-year changes in the state's higher education costs are greatly influenced by changes in student en...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=46&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=46&amid=424 Our CSUEU rallies, letters, and e-mails are beginning to pay off! But we need to keep pushing. Here's how you can help! Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=82&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=82&amid=424 After receiving close to a $33,000 raise and a $20,000 increase in his housing stipend, Chico State President Paul Zingg is giving his raise back t...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=12&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=12&amid=424 The CSU Employees Union, SEIU Local 2579, is pleased to announce that we have reached a Tentative Agreement (TA) with the CSU for a three-year cont...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=101&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=101&amid=424 "We're not going to take it anymore!" Fed up with an administration whose actions are tearing down the California State University, more than 1000 ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=103&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=103&amid=424 The Governor's Budget supports a total compensation package of 4.25%, which is 1% less than the 5.25% package we negotiated for FY 07/08. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=106&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=106&amid=424 Leaders of the California State University faculty union are criticizing Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposed 2007-08 budget for failing to reduce...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=107&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=107&amid=424 While students face tuition increases and professors walk picket lines over salary beefs, state education officials gave raises yesterday to top ex...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=110&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=110&amid=424 Twenty-eight of the California State University system's highest-paid executives are in line for another pay raise this week -- just days after stu...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=109&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=109&amid=424 Good news! The Public Employment Relations Board has granted CSUEU's appeal regarding the PERB decision to move Library Assistants out of Uni...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=111&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=111&amid=424 The CSU Employees Union bargaining team met at the Chancellor's Office on Feb. 8. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=33&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=33&amid=424 On January 13, 2007, CSUEU ratified the Tentative Agreement (TA). The CSU Board of Trustees ratified it on January 16,...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=113&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=113&amid=424 A bill requiring the UC Board of Regents and California State University Board of Trustees to publicly discuss executive compensation issues was in...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=115&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=115&amid=424 Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez joined with two other legislators Wednesday to request a comprehensive state audit of California State University sys...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=116&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=116&amid=424 Costs rise in midst of state budget crunch Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=117&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=117&amid=424 The general salary increase of 3% and the market salary adjustment of 0.324% for bargaining units 2, 5, 7 & 9 effective August 2, 2006, have no...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=112&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=112&amid=424 Legislation would add oversight of the state university system. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=119&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=119&amid=424 "SB 190 will bring much needed sunshine to these discussions, provide members of the media the democratic access they deserve, and help restore the...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=120&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=120&amid=424 UC students are taking action to hold the Governor and the legislature accountable to their commitment to an affordable and accessible higher ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=121&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=121&amid=424 With faculty labor unrest nearing the boiling point, the California State University system's governing board is expected to push two financial hot...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=127&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=127&amid=424 It will cost students more money to attend the California State University system this fall. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=128&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=128&amid=424 What really makes the increase unconscionable is the disproportionate harm it inflicts on Central Valley universities such as...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=129&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=129&amid=424 Chancellor Reed also scolded by state senators over statements. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=131&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=131&amid=424 CSUEU supports CFA’s position in its struggle for a contract with the CSU. While we cannot conduct a sympathy strike, we can do the following ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=133&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=133&amid=424 The visit was the third stop on a "listening tour" Garamendi began in February with the goal of hitting every California State University campus ov...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=132&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=132&amid=424 California State University administrators and faculty leaders agreed Sunday to resume talks in an effort to ink a contract within 10 days and head...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=135&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=135&amid=424 California State University faculty Sunday accepted independent recommendations aimed at ending a bitter labor dispute and urged university adminis...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=134&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=134&amid=424 The CSU administration should now do what it has resisted: agree to give the instructors a substantial pay increase and end a stalemate that, if no...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=137&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=137&amid=424 Contract approved by all bargaining units and CSU Trustees. Here's a joint news release. Downlo...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=108&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=108&amid=424 Drawn-out contract negotiations between the California State University and its faculty union have exposed cracks in a university system long rever...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=136&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=136&amid=424 Administrators and faculty at California State University announced a tentative contract agreement Tuesday, eliminating the prospect of faculty str...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=139&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=139&amid=424 It's certainly good to be on the California State University faculty staff. Not only is it great to teach some of our future leaders under nice con...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=140&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=140&amid=424 Senate Bills 235 and 689 seek to provide vision care for retired employees of the California State University system. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=141&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=141&amid=424 Students protested increased fees and budget cuts at Cal State San Bernardino as part of a statewide student effort. See photos of the protest...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=142&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=142&amid=424 A meeting has been scheduled for June 20th with Judge Allen to discuss a possible settlement in litigation with the Academic Professionals of Calif...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=147&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=147&amid=424 California Faculty Association members have voted overwhelmingly to accept the tentative contract agreement negotiated by CFA and the CSU Administr...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=146&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=146&amid=424 Good news regarding compensation. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=145&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=145&amid=424 The state Senate has approved legislation that would require compensation packages for top executives of the state's university systems to be ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=143&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=143&amid=424 Consistent with promises made by the Chancellor’s Office that CSUEU-represented employees would not pay any more for parking fees than employ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=149&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=149&amid=424 Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday proposed a revised budget that would dig deeper into social welfare programs while selling a state student loa...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=150&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=150&amid=424 No other big state spends as much to incarcerate compared with higher education funding. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=152&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=152&amid=424 We must continue our fight for additional funding. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=151&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=151&amid=424 California will face a serious shortage of skilled workers within 20 years if it continues to rely on importing college-educated foreign workers or...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=153&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=153&amid=424 Last week the state Assembly approved AB 1413, legislation which would prevent secret agreements and curb the question...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=154&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=154&amid=424 CSUEU, along with other unions, negotiated contract language for salary increases in 2007/2008 that was dependent on not only the Chancellor’...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=156&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=156&amid=424 The State budget impasse drags on and some legislators are calling for more spending cuts. The CSUEU and other CSU Unions are monitoring the situat...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=157&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=157&amid=424 In an effort to balance the state budget, various proposals are being contemplated which would cut funding to the CSU b...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=158&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=158&amid=424 President J.J. Jelincic calls Assembly plan "immoral" and "irresponsible." Senate President Pro-Tem Don Perata also ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=159&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=159&amid=424 Here's the message: Keep in the state budget all the California State University funding promised by the governor and adopted by the state Assembly...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=160&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=160&amid=424 The calls and e-mails to Republican senators seemed to have had an impact. The CSUEU and other unions cannot rest until the state budget is signed....Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=161&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=161&amid=424 Pat Gantt was re-elected to a two-year term as president of CSUEU in the union's August 5th election. The election was held during the CSUEU board ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=162&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=162&amid=424 Despite the holdup in the state budget, CSUEU represented employees will continue to receive their paychecks on time. H...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=166&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=166&amid=424 "It appears that the ongoing public scrutiny created enough pressure for the head of the UC system to step down. Is this a new trend?&qu...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=167&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=167&amid=424 The state Senate narrowly approved a long-overdue $103 billion budget Tuesday, ending a 52-day delay that stopped payments to vendors and threatene...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=168&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=168&amid=424 "This speech was given by Cesar Chavez in 1984. Labor Day reminds us of the struggle for workers rights as we ask what really may have c...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=170&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=170&amid=424 CSU rejects union proposal, submits plan that would reduce size of general salary increase. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=171&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=171&amid=424 <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-lan...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=173&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=173&amid=424 In letters to the CSU Chancellor and the Board of Trustees Chair, Garamendi voiced opposition to executive pay increas...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=175&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=175&amid=424 Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi today held a joint press conference with California Faculty Association (CFA) President Lillian Taiz to urge the...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=178&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=178&amid=424 The California State University (CSU) Board of Trustees appear set to approve more exorbitant pay raises for their top executives while once again ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=176&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=176&amid=424 CSU Trustees authorize "outrageous" executive increases. Parties head to impasse. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=183&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=183&amid=424 What is impasse? How does the mediation process work? What if mediation fails to reach an agreement? How often does mediation or fact-finding resul...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=184&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=184&amid=424 Los Angeles Daily News says : When the California State University board of trustees voted in secret to give university exec...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=185&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=185&amid=424 The governing board of the California State University system is poised to award pay increases averaging 11.8 percent to Chancellor Charles Reed, h...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=182&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=182&amid=424 A Bay Area lawmaker Wednesday called for the governor to sign bills curbing what he calls runaway salary increases and sweetheart deals for state u...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=187&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=187&amid=424 Who is worth more to California taxpayers: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger or Humboldt State University President Rollin...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=188&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=188&amid=424 Twenty thousand CSU retirees will benefit. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=191&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=191&amid=424 Lawsuit just the latest example of the need for CSU governance reform legislation. Faxes to the Governor are needed to ensure that AB 1413 is...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=190&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=190&amid=424 From MSN Money: ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=192&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=192&amid=424 With anger still running high among some California State University employees over recent executive pay hikes, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Frida...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=195&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=195&amid=424 "Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger does seem to veto more bills than some of the conservative governors that preceded him." - Pat Ga...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=196&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=196&amid=424 CSU has posted guidelines for reporting time off during the fire disruptions in Southern California. <a href="http://www.calstate.edu/HR...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=197&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=197&amid=424 California's two public university systems raised student fees this year well above the national average for state-supported campus...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=198&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=198&amid=424 On October 17 and October 25, 2007, the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) held hearings to determine whether the proposed classification of ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=199&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=199&amid=424 Like CSUEU, the CSU has now determined that the Board of Trustees does not have to ratify the Tentative Agreement we just reached dealing with how ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=201&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=201&amid=424 We have seen email from some campuses questioning whether there is enough time to process retroactive checks before the holidays. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=202&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=202&amid=424 For more information on Proposition 92 and how it could affect the CSU budget, please go here: noprop92.org...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=206&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=206&amid=424 "The budget picture is getting more gloomy as the process continues. The impacts on the CSU system and higher education in general will not be know...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=207&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=207&amid=424 You may have read about it. It was in some of the papers. California is facing its worst state budget crisis since, well, the last state budg...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=208&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=208&amid=424 Governor proposes 10% cut in spending across the board. He rejects tax hikes, touts benefits of his spread-the-pain plan. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=211&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=211&amid=424 "The CSU will close admissions for incoming freshman on Feb. 1, 2008. This is the appropriate response to the Governor's budget proposal as the CSU...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=212&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=212&amid=424 CSUEU and CSU have reached an agreement on the distribution of $1.6 million in system-wide funds for in-range progressions. There will also be $700...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=213&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=213&amid=424 "The Senate acted today on some of the mid-year cuts. The CSU was not impacted in the mid-year cut package. The future discussions from this point ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=217&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=217&amid=424 The executive order does not apply to the CSU, but does signal the seriousness of the budget problem. It is similar in intent to an order signed by...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=218&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=218&amid=424 The Legislative Analyst has presented the first alternative to the Governor's "cuts only" budget plan. To read the complete plan you can visi...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=220&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=220&amid=424 January 11, 2008. Gov. Schwarzenegger has proposed to cut $312.9 million from the California State University system. This latest blow to the CSU b...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=221&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=221&amid=424 "Our Governor may be testing the waters on possible solutions to the state budget problem. He put one foot into the water with closing tax lo...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=223&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=223&amid=424 Only four states - Vermont, Michigan, Oregon and Connecticut - now spend more on corrections than they do on higher education, according to a new r...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=224&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=224&amid=424 The Sacramento Bee has obtained salary data for state employees and placed it online, searchable by the public. Data returned includes name with mi...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=225&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=225&amid=424 A broad coalition of all CSU stakeholders have formed the Alliance for the CSU. The CSU is so much a part of every California Dream, past and prese...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=227&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=227&amid=424 Higher fees, reduced access and bigger class sizes are potential outcomes of the proposed budget cuts to higher education, according to administrat...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=228&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=228&amid=424 Where can I find the classification standards for the new LSS series? Has the LSS series been implemented yet? What was the outcome of the Unit Mod...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=241&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=241&amid=424 For the state public employee unions whose contracts come up this year, the timing couldn't be worse. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=248&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=248&amid=424 On May 7, 2008, the CSU Employees Union rejected the CSU roadmap proposal, in large part over compensation issues involving employees moving into t...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=255&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=255&amid=424 With a rousing and well-attended rally on City Hall steps, the San Francisco State chapter of the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.allianceforth...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=256&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=256&amid=424 Does Prop. 13, the 1978 taxpayer revolt proposition that limited local government's ability to raise property taxes, need to be revamped? Yes, acco...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=258&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=258&amid=424 Most Californians dislike Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s latest budget plan and oppose his proposal to borrow from the state lottery. But they ar...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=257&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=257&amid=424 California’s economic boom of the early 2000s benefited corporations and those earning $500,000 per year and above, but failed to benefit the middl...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=259&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=259&amid=424 About 2,000 students, staff, faculty and local elected officials gathered at Cal State Long Beach on March 26 to protest budget cuts proposed by Go...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=249&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=249&amid=424 Four thousand college students rallied at state Capitol on April 21 to protest $1 billion in budget cuts that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is pr...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=253&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=253&amid=424 How often in the past three decades has the state Legislature passed a budget by the constitutional deadline of June 15? Hint: It doesn't even come...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=269&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=269&amid=424 Although both houses of the state legislature have approved the Governor’s May Revise level of funding for the CSU, restoring some $97.6 million to...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=266&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=266&amid=424 What has the CSU meant to one person and what would the CSU budget cutbacks mean to California's future? A lot! That's the theme of this powerfully...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=270&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=270&amid=424 In the July 6 Sacramento Bee , columnist Dan Walters outlines a new report detailing why the current state budget crisis is unlike any of i...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=273&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=273&amid=424 The budget process has slowed to a crawl--or, at least, that's how it appears to Governor Schwarzenegger, who criticizes the legislature for its sl...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=275&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=275&amid=424 Budget update, CSU Fresno baseball team wins championship, CSUEU headquarters move to new digs, activities at CSU East Bay and CSU Dominguez Hills,...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=274&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=274&amid=424 CSUEU President Pat Gantt was among the signatories of this July 25 Alliance for the CSU letter to the Governor arguing for increased CSU fund...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=287&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=287&amid=424 According to this July 26 Sacramento Bee article, Legislative Counsel Diane Boyer-Vine has deemed that an executive order issued by Govern...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=288&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=288&amid=424 Governor's wage cut plan, state budget update, CSULA budget forum, one-week AFSCME strike against UC, and more! Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=278&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=278&amid=424 Press Release from State Controller John Chiang Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=279&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=279&amid=424 This July 24 Sacramento Bee story outlines the Governor's controversial plan to temporarily slash state workers' pay in response to t...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=280&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=280&amid=424 The CSU Chancellor will ensure that CSU employees receive their paychecks, according to this July 24 press release from CSU Office of the Chan...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=281&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=281&amid=424 It may be a distant two years away, but the next Governor's race is already off and running with Lt. Governor John Garamendi's July 31 announcement...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=292&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=292&amid=424 In response to Governor Schwarzenegger’s July 31 signing of an executive order to cut the pay of state workers to the federal minimum wage until a ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=291&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=291&amid=424 This August 5 bargaining update details the latest contract negotiation talks, Chancellor Reed's pledge regarding CSU employee salaries, a tentativ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=296&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=296&amid=424 Only three states require a two-thirds legislative majority to pass a budget: California, Rhode Island and Arkansas. This has led to pere...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=293&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=293&amid=424 To say the least! This August 1 press release from SEIU International responds...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=298&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=298&amid=424 Why does California seem to struggle with its budget every year? Is state spending really out of line, as Republicans suggest, or are Democrats rig...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=299&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=299&amid=424 The Labor Day holiday is more than the end of summer -- it's a reminder of the long, hard-fought struggle for workers' rights, going back to the mi...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=301&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=301&amid=424 Dan Walters in his August 22 Sacramento Bee article clearly identifies some of the smoke and mirrors on spending that the Republicans...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=303&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=303&amid=424 This August 24 Sacramento Bee editorial marks a new trend: the mass media's growing recognition of the Governor's efforts to break th...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=304&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=304&amid=424 Update on Governor's minimum wage plan, CSUMB negotiations on contracting out, CSU Dominguez Hills Alliance event, and more! Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=297&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=297&amid=424 The first week of September marks a record for California--the latest budget ever passed by the Legislature, eclipsing a 2002 standoff, as thi...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=306&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=306&amid=424 Labor Day is a celebration of the labor movement's contributions to American society and quality of life over the last 150 years. Read a FAQ about ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=305&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=305&amid=424 State budget standoff, administration profile, Labor Day history, contract campaign training, and more! Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=302&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=302&amid=424 This September 3 Sacramento Bee article details the myriad of programs that could go unpaid this month, including $1.1 billion to K-12 sch...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=307&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=307&amid=424 According to this September 5 Sacramento Bee article, no one knows! But surely students, the elderly, the sick and the needy will be the f...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=310&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=310&amid=424 Breaking its long practice of opposing tax increases, the California Taxpayers' Association on Friday agreed to support Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger'...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=312&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=312&amid=424 Californians have given their legislators the worst rating in recorded state history, according to a new Field Poll outlined in this September 12 <...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=313&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=313&amid=424 The legislature approved a budget early on the morning of September 16, but the Governor has vowed a veto, as outlined in this Sacramento Bee</...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=314&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=314&amid=424 The state budget just passed by the legislature relies on smoke and mirrors to make ends meet, according to this September 16 column by the Sac...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=315&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=315&amid=424 That's the opinion of Sacramento Bee columnist Dan Walters, who avers in this September 19 article that the new state budget is destined t...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=317&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=317&amid=424 In this September 23 article, Sacramento Bee columnist Peter Schrag argues that voters should look to themselves before blaming legislator...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=318&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=318&amid=424 Democrats are crafting a new ballot initiative to eliminate the stifling two-thirds vote requirement to pass a state budget, according to this Sept...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=319&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=319&amid=424 CSUEU President Pat Gantt provides his observations on the State Budget Battle of 2008-2009 in his <a href="http://www.csueu.org/Home/Blogs/tabid/8...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=322&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=322&amid=424 On September 23, the Alliance for the CSU issued this stateme...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=320&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=320&amid=424 According to this October 6 Sacramento Bee article , two weeks after California ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=324&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=324&amid=424 As this October 6 Sacramento Bee article points out, a federal judge scold...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=325&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=325&amid=424 CSUEU has announced its endorsements for California State Senate and Assembly seats in the upcoming November 4 elections. Visit the <a href="http:/...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=327&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=327&amid=424 As this October 7 Los Angeles Times article detail...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=326&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=326&amid=424 As this October 16 Los Angeles Times article points ou...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=328&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=328&amid=424 Economists worry that shriveling tax revenues may signal the onset of a historic fiscal crisis for nearly half the country's state governments, acc...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=330&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=330&amid=424 This October 24 Labor Notes article quotes CSUEU President Pat Gantt as one of many sources ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=332&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=332&amid=424 As detailed in this October 27 Sacramento Bee article , Gov. Schwarzenegger h...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=333&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=333&amid=424 The latest issue of CSUEU's University Employe...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=331&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=331&amid=424 This Library Services Specialist Bulletin, one in a series, outlines results of CSUEU-CSU contract negotiation meetings held the week of Octob...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=334&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=334&amid=424 In this November 6 letter, Governor Schwarzenegger announces cutbacks that include once-per-month furloughs for the next 18 months, elimination of ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=337&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=337&amid=424 CSUEU President Pat Gantt and Lt. Governor John Garamendi were among the featured speakers at a November 7 press conference on the steps ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=338&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=338&amid=424 CSUEU President Pat Gantt is quoted in this November 19 Sa...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=344&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=344&amid=424 The California state budget continues to be a saga featuring more twists than a soap opera. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=345&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=345&amid=424 CSUEU President Pat Gantt is quoted in this November 21 article appearing in local Chico a...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=349&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=349&amid=424 Nearly 500 staff, faculty members and students descended on Long Beach on November 18 to declare that budget cuts to the CSU have consequ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=348&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=348&amid=424 CSUEU has published two new Know Your Rights fliers dealing with performance evaluations and workload issues. Know Your Rights is a serie...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=336&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=336&amid=424 This December 5 New York Times...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=353&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=353&amid=424 State budget update, General Council delegate elections, new CalPERS service, updated online document library, and more! Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=358&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=358&amid=424 This December 25 Vallejo Times Herald article details a novel prog...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=357&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=357&amid=424 In this January 26 opinion piece in the Los Angeles T...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=363&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=363&amid=424 In this December 2 article , Sacramento Bee columnist Daniel Weintraub lay...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=352&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=352&amid=424 In his latest blog entry , dated January 12, C...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=359&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=359&amid=424 January 27: Since the state legislature and the governor have been unable to close the budget gap, the state controller’s office will be forced to ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=364&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=364&amid=424 On December 19, Governor Schwarzenegger issued an executive order that included furloughs and layoffs applying ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=355&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=355&amid=424 This January 15 Contract Negotiations News , one in a series of updates, provides details about a recent contract negotiation meeting. Prev...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=360&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=360&amid=424 This February 4 Contract Negotiations News<...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=365&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=365&amid=424 Budget deadline passes, Alliance for the CSU FAX Days, new survey on attitudes about education, Anda Webb interviewed about the budget, and mo...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=366&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=366&amid=424 Firing all state workers and closing all state prisons wouldn't even come close to balancing the budget, according to this <a href="http://www.merc...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=367&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=367&amid=424 The latest state budget plan includes provisions for a spending cap. We must oppose this ill-conceived idea, which sets this difficult budget year ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=372&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=372&amid=424 As this February 19 Sacramento Bee article explains, a state budget was ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=373&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=373&amid=424 Budget FAQ, new report on how unions help California's economy, SFSU teach-in on the budget, CSEA Women's Conference, and more! Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=374&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=374&amid=424 As this February 25 San Francisco Chronicle articl...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=377&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=377&amid=424 On February 25, Assembly Majority Leader Alberto Torrico introduced important legislation to expand funding for community colleges, the California ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=379&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=379&amid=424 State universities are the closest thing to an investment in California's future that we can budget for, so it's penny-wise and pound-foolish...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=380&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=380&amid=424 Budget update including important info on Prop. 1A, CalPERS updates including statewide retirement planning fairs, and more! Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=381&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=381&amid=424 If it's determined that the state will receive less than $10 billiion in unrestricted funds from the federal stimulus package, a $50 million cut to...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=384&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=384&amid=424 This March 27 letter from State Treasurer Bill Lockyer points out tha...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=385&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=385&amid=424 In 2000, Antonio Villaraigosa, now mayor of Los Angeles, sponsored and secured a California law which made March 31, César Chávez’s birthday, a sch...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=386&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=386&amid=424 Trigger cut protests, CSU contract proposals, Board of Directors meeting report, and more! Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=383&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=383&amid=424 This April 6 article outlines the impact on t...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=388&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=388&amid=424 Get out the vote against Prop. 1A on May 19, new Know Your Rights flyer about Weingarten rights, CSEA Benefits Fair on May 14, and more! Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=389&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=389&amid=424 As this April 17 <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=390&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=390&amid=424 This April 23 Los Angeles Times article references ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=391&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=391&amid=424 It's crucial for the CSU community to vote no on Prop. 1A this May 19, as passage of this ballot initiative is destined to wreak havoc on the CSU b...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=392&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=392&amid=424 This May 2 Modesto Bee article quotes CSUEU Chapter 308 President Frank Borrel...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=395&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=395&amid=424 Chapter election results, San Jose administration abandons center plans, CSEA Women's Conference report, Employee Free Choice Act update, Fresno St...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=387&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=387&amid=424 1A: NO 1B: NEUTRAL 1C: NO 1D and 1E: NEUTRAL 1F: YES <a href="http://www.csueu.org/Home/Committees/Legislative/tabid/...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=396&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=396&amid=424 "No on Prop. 1A" campaign, successful CSUEU Lobby Day 2009, welcome to new chapter presidents, SFSU Cal/OSHA filing garners fast results, safe...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=394&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=394&amid=424 <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-f...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=397&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=397&amid=424 In this April 28 opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=393&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=393&amid=424 Ten reasons to vote no on Prop. 1A, a look at Colorado's bungled spending cap initiative, new TV ad against 1A begins airing, and more! Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=399&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=399&amid=424 CSUEU is distributing this May 14 press release widely announcing its opposition to Prop. 1A because of the devastating impact that it is dest...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=400&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=400&amid=424 California has been trying to do too much for too many people without enough money to sustain it for too many years, and the reckoning is comi...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=403&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=403&amid=424 This May 20 Sacramento Bee editorial analyzes the message that voters sent ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=404&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=404&amid=424 This May 20 CSUEU statement on the May 19 election is augmented by a new <a href="http://www.csueu.org/Home/Blogs/tabid/80/EntryId/156/Budget-...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=405&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=405&amid=424 The task of our next generation of leaders will be to show that California is not ungovernable--it's just been ungoverned for too many years. Undoi...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=406&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=406&amid=424 The Golden State's political system has been unable to deal with the recession. Does California's political paralysis foreshadow the future of the ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=407&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=407&amid=424 This May 15 memo from CSU Chancellor Reed provides a stark budget update addressing the deep cuts proposed in Gov. Schwarzenegger’s May Revise. The...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=402&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=402&amid=424 Assemblywoman Nora Evans (D-Santa Rosa), chair of the Assembly Budget Committee, has started a new ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=408&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=408&amid=424 Corporate tax giveaways from dead-of-night budget agreements in September and February will cost the state as much as $2.5 billion in revenues at a...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=418&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=418&amid=424 From the June 4 edition of the Sacramento Bee . Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=421&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=421&amid=424 Assembly Speaker Karen Bass said Wednesday that her caucus is deciding among numerous revenue-raising options because the $24.3 billion state budge...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=426&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=426&amid=424 As this May 29 Washington Post/Sacramento Bee opinion piece by Harold Mey...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=411&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=411&amid=424 That's the assessment of the Chronicle of Higher Education , as outlined in this <a href="http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i39/39masterplan.ht...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=427&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=427&amid=424 Meeting with CSU about the budget, polls show that voters support new revenues, CSUEU now represents food service workers at CSU Sacramento, CSU Ch...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=425&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=425&amid=424 Budget update, GC delegate election results, new online directory, new Spanish-language Know Your Rights flyers, and more! Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=410&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=410&amid=424 Contract extended for two years, CSUEU distributes press release announcing opposition to Prop. 1A, Frank Borrelli wins lifetime achievement award,...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=401&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=401&amid=424 Several newspaper and television stations have reported about looming furlough negotiations over the last few days. This <a href="http://www.presst...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=433&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=433&amid=424 State budget update, statewide meetings focus on furloughs, officer elections set for this weekend, nominations open for CSUEU Woman of the Year, a...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=434&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=434&amid=424 This June 27 Time article , referencing CSU...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=439&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=439&amid=424 In this June 26 article , the Silicon...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=441&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=441&amid=424 After three full days of bargaining, CSUEU reached a conceptual agreement which will provide workload protections, significant layoff mitigation an...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=446&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=446&amid=424 Sacramento, Calif. (July 7, 2009)—The California State University Employees Union, representing some 16,000 staff employees in the California State...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=447&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=447&amid=424 The CSUEU bargaining team has reached a <a href="/Portals/0/Docs/2009/2009BargNews/CSU-CSUEU Furlough Final_Amended_2...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=449&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=449&amid=424 Tentative agreement on furloughs, update on CSU and state budget, statewide election results, CSUEU endorses Garamendi for Congress, and more! Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=450&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=450&amid=424 SACRAMENTO, Calif. (July 20, 2009) – The California State University Employees Union (CSUEU), representing some 16,000 classified California State ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=455&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=455&amid=424 Reports from Tuesday's CSU Board of Trustees meeting, Modesto Bee quotes chapter President Frank Borrelli, Organizing Committee seeks new ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=458&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=458&amid=424 In a close advisory vote, California Faculty Association members have approved a furlough program. We will post a link to the CFA agreement wh...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=459&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=459&amid=424 A newly published Know Your Rights flyer about furloughs i...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=461&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=461&amid=424 The state's budget cuts to the three-tiered system--UC, Cal State and community colleges--may threaten the system's world-class reputation and the ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=462&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=462&amid=424 At least eight campuses begin furloughs this week. During furlough weeks (also known as "furlough periods" per section 2b of the furlough agreement...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=463&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=463&amid=424 First furlough days roll out, final budget plan hurts Californians, introducing CSUEU's newly elected officers, CalPERS health premium holiday is i...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=464&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=464&amid=424 As this August 20 San Francisco Chronicle articl...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=467&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=467&amid=424 Opinion piece on furloughs, report from the furlough Labor Management Committee, using Capwiz to contact your legislators about furloughs, and more...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=468&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=468&amid=424 The Conference Budget Committee's deliberations about the higher education budget, originally scheduled for today, have been postponed until tomorr...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=419&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=419&amid=424 Breaking its long practice of opposing tax increases, the California Taxpayers' Association on Friday agreed to support Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger'...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=311&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=311&amid=424 Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to sign an executive order next week that will temporari...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=276&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=276&amid=424 Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi today held a joint press conference with Califor...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=177&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=177&amid=424 In May, 2009, when CSUEU and CSU agreed to extend the 2007-2009 contract until June, 2011, the two parties agreed to establish a Labor Management C...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=471&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=471&amid=424 On August 25, 2009, CSUEU met with CSU for the second time regarding the CSU’s proposed IT security policy. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=472&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=472&amid=424 The latest edition of CSUEU's University Employee</a...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=473&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=473&amid=424 Furloughs begin, LMCs form and meet, CSUEU announces CalPERS Board endorsements, CSEA General Council meets this weekend, and more... Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=474&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=474&amid=424 CSEA General Council 2009 took place from September 4 through 7 in Los Angeles. Each day, ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=475&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=475&amid=424 Active and retired CalPERS members have received ballots for two very important elections on the CalPERS Board of Administration. The CSUEU Board o...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=483&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=483&amid=424 CSU Stanislaus President Ham Shirvani's recent "State of the University" address painted a gloomy picture on overall funding, as this September 10 ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=484&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=484&amid=424 GC update, CSUEU negotiates Head Start contract, big demo planned at Chancellor's Office, exec pay bill awaits Gov's signature, and more! Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=485&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=485&amid=424 As this September 20 Sacramento Bee article details, California leg...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=486&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=486&amid=424 This September 29 Contract Negotiations News outlines results ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=488&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=488&amid=424 Mock funeral for California's Master Plan, Week of Action is coming to your campus, remember the call-back provision of the furlough agreement, Cal...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=489&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=489&amid=424 As this October 5 Sacramento Bee article points out, s ign...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=490&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=490&amid=424 California's Master Plan for Higher Education needs to be revised--and soon--according to this September 30 <a href="http://www.presstelegram.com/e...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=491&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=491&amid=424 Due to cutbacks caused by the budget crisis, community college students across the state are finding it increasingly difficult to transfer into the...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=493&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=493&amid=424 Rally in San Francisco today for higher ed funding, actions statewide supporting AB 656, Gov signs and vetoes many bills, compensati...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=495&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=495&amid=424 CSUEU President Pat Gantt offers his perspective on the state and CSU budgets. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=496&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=496&amid=424 On October 23, the California Budget Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving public policies that impact low- to middle-incom...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=497&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=497&amid=424 Chico rally for AB 656, CSU receives stimulus funds, Annel Martin honored for service, March 4 set as statewide day of action, CalPERS election run...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=498&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=498&amid=424 This opinion piece in the November 5 edit...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=499&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=499&amid=424 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 fu...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=500&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=500&amid=424 The bargaining team today settled a statewide furlough grievance that had been filed shortly after the start of the furloughs program. The settleme...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=501&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=501&amid=424 As this November 9 Sacramento Bee article details, enterprise zones are just o...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=502&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=502&amid=424 A new poll from the Public Policy Institute of California reveals that California...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=503&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=503&amid=424 CSU budget battle looms, ballots for the CalPERS board election are in the mail, CSUEU-endorsed Garamendi wins Congressional seat, Californians are...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=504&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=504&amid=424 As this November 18 Sacramento Bee article explains, the nonpartisan Leg...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=506&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=506&amid=424 In response to a November 8 feature article in the Sacramento Bee highlighting the fun that young Sacramentans are having on their furloug...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=507&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=507&amid=424 CSUEU members made impassioned comments to the CSU Board of Trustees at its two-day meeting, November 17-18, 2009. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=508&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=508&amid=424 An update on recent fact-finding hearings conducted as a part of contract negotiations for Bargaining Unit 13, representing English Language Progra...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=509&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=509&amid=424 As this November 23 Sacramento Bee article outlines, Ass...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=510&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=510&amid=424 Budget update, protests at CSULA and elsewhere, join the E-March to protect public education, CSUEU Board of Directors meeting features CalPERS CEO...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=511&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=511&amid=424 As this November 29 Los Angeles Times article ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=513&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=513&amid=424 On December 3, the State Auditor’s Office published an investigative report detaili...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=514&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=514&amid=424 L.A. Times columnist and San Jose State grad Steve Lopez answers that question in this scathing <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=515&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=515&amid=424 On December 7, CSUEU President Pat Gantt was invited to provide his perspectives to a newly formed Joint Committee on the Master Plan for Higher Ed...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=516&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=516&amid=424 CSUEU and CSU have reached agreement on implementation of LVN II, phlebotomist and ortho tech classifications. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=517&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=517&amid=424 Update on LSS negotiations: implementation of the LSS series will be held in abeyance. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=519&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=519&amid=424 SFSU student protests, Economic Recovery Summit, CSU executive misspent $152,000, EMarch on the governor, Pat Gantt testifies to Committee to ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=518&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=518&amid=424 J.J. Jelincic has won the runoff election for the CalPERS Board of Administration, receiving 109,088 votes to 104,656 for candidate Cathy Hackett.<...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=520&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=520&amid=424 And those options are few, according to this December 20 Sacramento Bee analysis...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=521&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=521&amid=424 Assemblymember Noreen Evans' December 18 blog entry details...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=523&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=523&amid=424 This December 23 Los Angeles Times article foreca...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=524&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=524&amid=424 This December 28 Los Angeles Times editor...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=525&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=525&amid=424 This December 31 <a href="http://californiabudgetbites.org/2009/12/31/looking-back-our-nominees-for-the-five-worst-budget-and-policy-choices-of-200...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=526&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=526&amid=424 Governor Schwarzenegger's State of the State address, delivered on the morning of January 6, acknowledged the need for higher education suppor...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=527&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=527&amid=424 CSUEU President Pat Gantt represented the union in a January 5 media event via teleconference highlighting the increasingly united front of al...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=528&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=528&amid=424 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.</...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=529&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=529&amid=424 This January 6 Sacramento Bee article features a fascinating graph showin...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=530&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=530&amid=424 Legislation to impose a new severance tax on oil and natural gas extraction to help bolster higher education funding passed the Assembly's Revenue ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=531&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=531&amid=424 Governor's budget would increase CSU funding, Kiplinger's names CSU San Luis Obispo as a best value in public education, CSUEU participates in...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=532&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=532&amid=424 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 Educ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=533&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=533&amid=424 Dispatchers' overtime pay grievance settled, CSUEU presses Chancellor for budget plan answers, CSUEU endorses March 4 National Day of Action, free ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=535&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=535&amid=424 CSUEU for the first time offers a free webinar designed to help union stewards and members learn more about the issue of job merging. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=536&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=536&amid=424 Last Tuesday, January 26, Oregon voters approved a pair of ballot measures that will increase taxes in a recession. One raises income taxes for the...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=537&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=537&amid=424 Frequently Asked Questions about the CSU Budget FY 2010/11 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=538&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=538&amid=424 This February 7 Sacramento Bee article examines various scenarios--inclu...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=539&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=539&amid=424 Sonoma rally for CSU funding, Capitol rally for jobs today, March 4 National Day of Action gains momentum, Sen. Florez seeks end to tuition spikes,...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=540&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=540&amid=424 CSU East Bay announced yesterday that an estimated 140 non-teaching staff members, 86 of whom are members of the CSU Employees Union (CSUEU), would...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=541&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=541&amid=424 <img height="114" alt="" hspace="5" width="115" align="left" bord...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=542&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=542&amid=424 Budget and layoffs update, March 4th events scheduled across the state and nation, FBI raid at Sonoma State, thumbs up for beginner stewards traini...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=543&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=543&amid=424 <img border="1" alt="" align="left" width="69" height="100" src="/Portals/0/Articl...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=544&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=544&amid=424 On Monday, March 1, CSU Humboldt administration gave CSUEU notice that it would be implementing a partial layoff of 55 Bargaining Unit 7 and 9 posi...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=545&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=545&amid=424 Massive turnout for March 4 Day of Action, layoff notices at three chapters, new steward training at CSU East Bay, Speaker Perez makes higher ed a ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=546&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=546&amid=424 CSUEU President Pat Gantt's remarks to the CSU Board of Trustees at their meeting in Long Beach on March 16 reflect the deep concern that layoff no...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=547&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=547&amid=424 Layoffs update, students rally in Sacramento, Fresno meeting brings together NorCal activists, many CSU buildings are unsafe in earthquakes, and mo...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=548&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=548&amid=424 This March 25 San Jose Mercury News article quotes Steve S...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=549&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=549&amid=424 This campus-wide memo, dated March 26, explains that no layoffs are planned at CSU San Marcos. Comments CSUEU President Pat Gantt, "This good news ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=551&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=551&amid=424 In this March 25 Chico News and Review editorial , CSU Chico President P...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=552&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=552&amid=424 The CSUEU bargaining team and Chancellor’s Office representatives held their second bargaining session on April 1, 2010, following their first meet...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=554&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=554&amid=424 On Tuesday, April 6, CSUEU reached agreement with CSU East Bay administration on voluntary time reduction programs. These programs will decrease th...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=555&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=555&amid=424 March and rally at CSU East Bay in support of union negotiators, controversy swirls around Palin talk at CSU Stanislaus, CSU San Marcos employees g...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=557&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=557&amid=424 On April 15, San Jose State administrators announced layoff notices to 73 staff members, along with elimination of 49 vacant positions, as des...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=559&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=559&amid=424 Layoffs at CSU Fresno, "Save Our Jobs" Rally at CSU Long Beach today, "March for California's Future" Rally in Sacramento yesterday, Cal Poly ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=560&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=560&amid=424 The Senate voted 25-7 this afternoon to confirm Sen. Abel Maldonado's lieutenant governor nomination, clearing the way...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=563&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=563&amid=424 In a bit of good news from Sacramento, Gov. Schwarzenegger has just renewed the commitment to higher education funding that he'd expressed back in ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=565&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=565&amid=424 A group of advanced San Jose State University broadcast journalism students have posted their informative reports about an April 29 SJSU layof...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=566&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=566&amid=424 This morning, California State University Bakersfield administration notified the...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=568&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=568&amid=424 Layoffs at CSU Bakersfield, rallies at San Jose State and CSU Channel Islands, successful two-day Lobby Day 2010 at the State Capitol, CSEA Benefit...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=569&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=569&amid=424 That's the opinion of Bob Linscheid, the alumni member of the CSU Board of Trustees, as explained in this informative May 9 <a href="http://www.sac...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=570&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=570&amid=424 CSUEU President Pat Gantt delivered this letter to CSU Chancellor Reed on May 11 requesting a system-wide hiring freeze in order for laid-off emplo...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=571&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=571&amid=424 As described in this May 10 CSU press release , the CSU Office of the Chance...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=572&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=572&amid=424 During the CSU Board of Trustees meeting on the morning of May 11, CSUEU leaders called for good faith bargaining in the face of layoff notices at ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=573&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=573&amid=424 Governor Schwarzenegger has unveiled his state budget May Revise, which includes a proposed restoration of $305 million to the CSU's 2010-11 b...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=574&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=574&amid=424 Sacramento, Calif. (May 19, 2010)—Over the last 17 years, the number of managers at San Jose State University has increased by more than 35 percent...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=576&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=576&amid=424 Governor's May Revise includes $366M for CSU, Maritime Academy receives layoff notices, growth in SJSU managers far outstrips growth in staff, new ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=577&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=577&amid=424 The CSUEU bargaining team met with CSU representatives at San Jose State University on May 19 and 20. Both parties exchanged proposals. CSUEU initi...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=578&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=578&amid=424 Sacramento, Calif. (May 25, 2010)—This morning, California State University Sacramento administration notified the CSU Employees Union (CSUEU)...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=581&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=581&amid=424 On May 25, 2010, CSUEU reached an agreement with the CSU which will lessen the impact of layoffs and budget cuts on Fresno State’s CSUEU-represente...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=582&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=582&amid=424 Sacramento, Calif. (May 26, 2010)—The California State University Employees Union (CSUEU) announced today that it has reached an agreement with CSU...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=583&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=583&amid=424 The CSUEU bargaining team met today with California State University representatives on the San Jose State University campus as a ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=584&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=584&amid=424 State budget update, BOD endorses John Laird for state Senate, Palin to receive $75K to speak at CSU Stanislaus, SFSU student creates CSU funding v...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=585&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=585&amid=424 On June 3, 2010, the CSUEU bargaining team met with representatives from the Office of the Chancellor and campus administration to discuss CSU’s Ma...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=586&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=586&amid=424 On Tuesday, June 8, the CSUEU bargaining team met with representatives of CSU East Bay and the Office of the Chancellor to continue negotiating mit...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=588&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=588&amid=424 On May 11, 2010, CSUEU received notice of two layoffs in the same department at the California Maritime Academy . In addition, one ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=589&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=589&amid=424 The Sacramento Bee published a front page article on June 10 stating that the courts may decide in favor of the governor’s earlier order t...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=591&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=591&amid=424 California's June 15 constitutional deadline for passing a state budget has come and gone. The occasion has prompted Jean Ross, head of the Califor...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=592&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=592&amid=424 In this opinion piece in the...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=593&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=593&amid=424 On June 15 and 16, the CSUEU bargaining team met with representatives of CSU Sacramento (CSUS) and the Office of the Chancellor in...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=595&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=595&amid=424 Layoffs update, CSUEU leaders set to host interactive internet radio show on June 23, CSU Trustees vote tomorrow on student fee hike, and more...</...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=594&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=594&amid=424 The Sacramento Bee published a front page article on June 10 stating that the courts may decide in favor of the governor’s earlier order t...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=597&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=597&amid=424 On June 24, CSUEU reached an agreement with CSU and California State University, Sacramento (CSUS) which CSUEU expects will m...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=598&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=598&amid=424 On June 22, CSUEU reached an agreement with CSU and San Jose State University (SJSU) which CSUEU expects will mitigate a number of...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=599&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=599&amid=424 On June 29, CSUEU reached an agreement with CSU and CSU East Bay (CSUEB) regarding the mitigation of layoffs. It augments an earli...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=602&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=602&amid=424 On June 30, the second day of layoffs bargaining at CSU Bakersfield following a preliminary session on June 3, CSUEU and CSU reach...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=601&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=601&amid=424 Layoffs update, CSU raises student fees, BOD meeting last weekend, LaborFest kicks off in the Bay Area, CSU San Marcos "Farewell to Furloughs" picn...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=600&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=600&amid=424 Yesterday, Gov. Schwarzenegger made public an executive order that could temporarily reduce pay for more than 200,000 state workers to the federal ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=603&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=603&amid=424 VP for Rep's comments to the Board of Trustees, Chiang fights the governor's order to slash pay, CSEA Foundation celebrates 25 years of scholarship...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=604&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=604&amid=424 On July 16, Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Patrick Marlette denied Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's request to compel State Controller John Chi...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=606&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=606&amid=424 The CSUEU bargaining team and Office of the Chancellor representatives met on July 14-15 to discuss the layoff notices of eight Of...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=607&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=607&amid=424 On July 20 and 21, CSUEU and CSU met at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (CPP) in an effort to mitigate four layoff...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=608&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=608&amid=424 As this July 28 San Francisco Chronicle article o...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=609&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=609&amid=424 CSUEU wins $160,000 dispatcher settlement, Pomona chapter sends a bargaining message, San Diego State chapter meeting draws 200-plus members, this ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=610&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=610&amid=424 The CSUEU team, including impacted employees, met with CSU representatives at the California Maritime Academy (CMA) on July 29, 20...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=611&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=611&amid=424 Laird for State Senate this Tuesday, $365 million in CSU funding remains intact, Cal Poly Pomona decides that support for the deaf is seasonal, Joh...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=613&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=613&amid=424 On the afternoon of August 18, the California Supreme Court allowed furloughs to start again Friday, as outlined in this August 19 <a href="http://...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=615&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=615&amid=424 On the afternoon of August 18, the State Supreme Court...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=614&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=614&amid=424 On August 19, 2010, CSUEU and CSU met at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (CPP) in an effort to mitigate four layof...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=616&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=616&amid=424 John Chiang speaks at Long Beach chapter event, CSUEU reaches agreement on expanded vision and dental coverage for adult children, new reprographic...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=617&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=617&amid=424 As this August 30 San Francisco Chronicle a...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=619&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=619&amid=424 This Sacramento Bee story summarizes 10 k...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=618&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=618&amid=424 On August 28, The Tribune , based in San Luis Obispo, published a <a href="http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2010/08/27/1266334/viewpoint-the-fa...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=620&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=620&amid=424 This August 30 opinion piece from the AFL-CIO Now Blog captures many of the most important talking points in support of public employees. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=621&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=621&amid=424 Labor Day celebrates 100-plus years of union history and accomplishments. ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=622&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=622&amid=424 This August 31 Los Angeles...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=623&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=623&amid=424 In this September 4 opinion...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=624&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=624&amid=424 Board of Directors endorses November election candidates, English Language Program instructors ratify their first-ever agreement, newly formed CSU ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=625&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=625&amid=424 On September 9, the CSUEU Board of Directors passed a resolution endorsing the October 7th National Day of Action to Defend Public Education, a gra...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=626&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=626&amid=424 State budget stalemate continues, CSU Board of Trustees ratifies the BU 13 agreement, CSUEU will be participating in the October 7 National Day of ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=627&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=627&amid=424 The bill, sponsored by Sen. Leland Yee, expanded public records law to campus auxiliaries and foundations. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=628&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=628&amid=424<div style="border-bottom: medium none; text-align: left; border-left: medium none; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; b...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=629&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=629&amid=424 As outlined in this <a href="http://m.sacbee.com/sacramento/db_98824/contentdetail.htm;jsessionid=3A53B1704CC90E73987015F7601D0AD4?contentguid=CReJ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=630&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=630&amid=424 As this October 7 Los Angeles Times a...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=632&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=632&amid=424 CSUEU supports Jerry Brown for governor, the CSU system is set to receive a $365 million funding increase, CSUEU chapters host events today in...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=633&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=633&amid=424 Early on October 8, the legislature finally approved the 2010-11 state budget, 100 days into the new fiscal year. The governor is expected to sign ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=634&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=634&amid=424 Late on October 8, Gov. Schwarzenegger signed the newly approved $87.5 billion state budget, but vetoed $962 million in spending. The action offici...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=635&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=635&amid=424 After setting a record for the latest budget in California history, the governor signed the budget on October 8, 2010. One of the more significant ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=636&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=636&amid=424 During her final televised debate with Jerry Brown on October 12, gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman cited the benefits that u...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=637&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=637&amid=424 Chapters across the state hosted events last week in honor of the October 7th National Day of Action to Defend Public Education, the state budget t...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=638&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=638&amid=424 On October 15, KQED-FM in the Bay Area aired this eloquent essay in support of state workers by veteran journalist Dick Meister, who poin...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=639&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=639&amid=424 On October 19, the Jerry Brown campaign debuted a ne...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=640&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=640&amid=424 Wages received by California public employees are about seven percent lower, on average, than wages received by comparable private sector workers, ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=641&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=641&amid=424 Brown campaign hits the home stretch, Whitman targets CSU staff benefits, activists attend statewide committee and bargaining unit council mee...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=642&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=642&amid=424 As this October 25 Sacramento Be...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=643&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=643&amid=424 Electing Jerry Brown and defeating Meg Whitman was our top priority in this election, and we are t...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=644&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=644&amid=424 Voters embrace vision to rebuild California, CSEA celebrates at Brown's victory party, Assemblymember Mary Salas joins SDSU chapter meeting, CSU co...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=645&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=645&amid=424 CSU Board of Trustees raises fees and mulls change of terms from "fees" to "tuition," CSUEU launches YouTube Channel, CSU Monterey Bay chapter host...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=646&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=646&amid=424 Jerry Brown is busy working on a new state budget, Sen. Darrell Steinberg denounces new CSU fee hikes, a personal perspective on volunteering ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=650&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=650&amid=424 On December 8, Governor-elect Jerry Brown convened a budget forum in Sacramento to try to get state lawmakers and local government officials o...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=652&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=652&amid=424 Governor-elect Jerry Brown's second budget forum focuses on education, Sen. Yee re-introduces public transparency bill, VP for Representation Russe...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=653&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=653&amid=424 The rate hike CalPERS imposed on state taxpayers got about $200 million smaller in December. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=654&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=654&amid=424 Gov. Brown's proposed budget set to be unveiled soon, CSEA president warns against Social Security reform, LA Times takes sides on legisla...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=656&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=656&amid=424 January 10, 2011--Governor Brown’s proposed budget, unveiled this morning, represents a comprehensive approach, combining cuts with new revenu...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=657&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=657&amid=424 Two days after Governor Brown unveiled his proposed budget, including a $500 million cut to the CSU, the specific impacts to the CSU system remain ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=658&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=658&amid=424 If this January 14 Los Angeles Times article </...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=659&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=659&amid=424 January 18 -- This Frequently Asked Questions document provides an overview of the proposed 2011/12 state budget and its potential impacts for CSU ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=660&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=660&amid=424 This January 20 Chico News & Review column provides insightful infor...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=662&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=662&amid=424 January 27--Today’s edition of The Tribune in the San Luis Obispo area reports that new Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (SLO) President Jeffrey A...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=663&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=663&amid=424 SACRAMENTO, Calif. (January 31, 2011)—Pat Gantt, president of the California State University Employees Union (CSUEU), issued this statement today ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=664&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=664&amid=424 The contract between CSUEU and CSU expires on June 30, 2011, and negotiations will soon begin for a new contract. Late last week, CSUEU submitted a...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=665&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=665&amid=424 Gov. Brown delivers State of the State address, CSUEU sends its initial bargaining proposal to the CSU, two recent articles highlight public worker...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=666&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=666&amid=424 As this February 6 Los Angeles Times article ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=667&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=667&amid=424 As reported in the Sacramento Bee on Febr...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=668&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=668&amid=424 California state workers' salaries and benefits aren't the cause of the economic crisis that makes massive budget cuts necessary, accordi...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=669&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=669&amid=424 Member survey addresses contract negotiations and related concerns, UCLA study shows that cuts are taking a toll on CSU students, check out th...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=670&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=670&amid=424 In this February 17 opinion piece , Sacramento Bee <...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=671&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=671&amid=424 On Saturday, February 26, more than 1000 people gathered on short notice at the Sacramento Capitol to show strong support for unions in Wisconsin. ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=672&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=672&amid=424 Contract bargaining news, joint legislative committee confirms $500 million in cuts to the CSU budget, overview of attacks on collective bargaining...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=673&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=673&amid=424 As this March 9 Huffington Post article reveals, sev...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=674&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=674&amid=424 New Field Polls show continuing support for tax extensions but eroding support for pensions and benefits, bargaining team continues successful list...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=675&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=675&amid=424 March 23, 2011 — At yesterday’s Board of Trustees meeting in Long Beach, Chancellor Charles Reed announced a 2.4 percent reduction in student count...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=676&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=676&amid=424 As this March 24 New York Times article details, General ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=677&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=677&amid=424 To what degree have the state budget crises across the nation been caused by overzealous tax cuts during the last decade? To a high degre...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=678&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=678&amid=424 Gov. Brown's decision to drop the June special election, bargaining update, L.A. rally in support of Wisconsin workers, April 4 and April...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=679&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=679&amid=424 CSUEU chapters "Take Class Action," Monterey Bay members protest Chancellor Reed appearance, agreement reached on bargaining sites, CSUEU Lobb...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=680&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=680&amid=424 SEIU State Council has just launched standupforca.org , a new web site promoting the idea that the state budge...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=681&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=681&amid=424 California voters agree with Gov. Jerry Brown that tax increases are needed to help close the state budget deficit, and they want to vote...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=682&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=682&amid=424 Rally to support bargaining set for May 4 at CSULA, follow CSUEU on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, Chico chapter participates in large rally suppor...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=683&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=683&amid=424 With the current Collective Bargaining Agreement between CSUEU and the CSU Board of Trustees expiring this June 30, <a href="/LinkClick.aspx?link=1...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=684&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=684&amid=424 Public employees are being blamed for California’s budget woes. We are fighting back with...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=685&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=685&amid=424 www.csueu.org/Bargaining/tabid/63/Default.aspx Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=688&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=688&amid=424 (San Bernardino, CA) – California State University (CSU), San Bernardino students, faculty, and staff launched an aggressive online campaign today,...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=690&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=690&amid=424 Across this state and across the nation public employee unions have been made into scapegoats by conservative leaders and those who passively defer...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=689&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=689&amid=424 On May 6, the CSUEU bargaining team finished three days of contract negotiations with representatives of the CSU at the campus of Cal State&#1...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=691&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=691&amid=424 On Monday, May 16, Gov. Jerry Brown released his revised budget proposal for the 2011/12 fiscal year. He outlined his plan to place $6.6 billion in...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=692&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=692&amid=424 Urge your Republican legislators to vote for tax extensions, contract negotiations continue, CSU Channel Islands plans rally for laid-off workers, ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=693&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=693&amid=424 On May 19, the CSUEU bargaining team finished three days of contract negotiations with representatives of the CSU at the Sacramento State campus. T...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=694&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=694&amid=424 On May 24, more than one dozen CSU presidents and their campus delegations met with Governor Brown to talk about the impact of budget cuts on ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=695&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=695&amid=424 As this May 26 Labor Notes article explains, a...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=696&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=696&amid=424 Channel Islands chapter supports laid-off workers, San Diego and San Jose chapters plan rallies, online National Workforce Network launches today, ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=698&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=698&amid=424 In a move designed to encourage compromise between Republican and Democratic state legislators in this time of budget crises, the SEIU Califor...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=699&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=699&amid=424 As outlined in this June 9 ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=700&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=700&amid=424 On June 9, 2011, the CSUEU bargaining team finished three days of contract negotiations with representatives of the CSU at the San Diego State camp...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=701&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=701&amid=424 Gov. Brown vetoes his own party's budget bill, we need to urge the governor to delete a trailer bill eliminating CSU fiscal audits, San Diego ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=702&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=702&amid=424 On June 16, 2011, the CSUEU bargaining team finished three days of contract negotiations with representatives of the CSU at the San Jose State camp...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=703&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=703&amid=424 The California State Legislature approved $150 million in funding cuts to the California State University in the state budget bill adopted last nig...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=704&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=704&amid=424 Gov. Brown signs budget with $150 in cuts to CSU, notable quotes from budget stories around the web, collective bargaining update, and more! Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=705&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=705&amid=424 On June 30, 2011, the CSUEU bargaining team finished three days of contract negotiations with representatives of the CSU at the Fullerton campus.</...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=706&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=706&amid=424 If you have questions about the Library Services Specialist Classification Implementation, this new FAQ should give you the answers. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=707&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=707&amid=424 On July 7, 2011, the CSUEU bargaining team finished three days of contract negotiations with representatives of the CSU at the Chancellor’s Office....Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=708&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=708&amid=424 CSU trustees hike students fees and president's salary, contract bargaining continues, union leaders focus on contracting out, webinar&#1...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=709&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=709&amid=424 On July 15, 2011, the CSUEU bargaining team finished three days of contract negotiations with representatives of the CSU at Long Beach State. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=710&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=710&amid=424 Sacramento, Calif. (July 18, 2011)--This morning, the California State University Stanislaus and California State University Fresno administrations...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=711&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=711&amid=424 Layoffs at Stanislaus and Fresno, don't sign anti-union petitions, new bills would limit CSU executive pay raises, webinar for library assistants i...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=712&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=712&amid=424 Congress has voted to raise the federal debt limit until 2013. The deal centers on sharp spending cuts – up to $2.4 trillion – without increasing r...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=713&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=713&amid=424 On August 3, CBS Evening News aired this insightful report o...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=714&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=714&amid=424 ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=715&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=715&amid=424 CSUEU President Pat Gantt featured on today's National Workforce Network webcast, Communications Committee seeks chapter photos, Wisconsin voters r...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=716&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=716&amid=424 On August 19, 2011, the CSUEU bargaining team finished three days of contract negotiations with representatives of the CSU at Dominguez Hills. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=717&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=717&amid=424 Labor Day celebrates 100-plus years of union history and accomplishments. ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=718&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=718&amid=424 In this August 22 article , Time details the deterioratio...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=719&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=719&amid=424 Contract negotiations continue, proposed ballot initiative would limit contributions to union Political Action Committees, pre-register n...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=720&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=720&amid=424 The latest version of CSU's Library Services Sp...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=721&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=721&amid=424 In this September 2 Sacramento Bee opinion piece , two California ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=722&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=722&amid=424 This FAQ explains why voters need to be educated about this dangerous measure, which has qualified for the fall 2012 ballot. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=723&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=723&amid=424 San Diego chapter rallies for tax severance bill, Gov. Brown signs university foundations transparency bill, Lt. Gov. Newsom forms university fundi...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=724&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=724&amid=424 On Sept. 9, 2011, the CSUEU bargaining team finished another three days of contract negotiations with representatives of the CSU at the Office of t...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=725&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=725&amid=424 This September 13 Modesto Bee article and t...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=726&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=726&amid=424 A new California Budget Project backgrounder, " Steady Climb: State Correction...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=727&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=727&amid=424 Pat Gantt and Russell Kilday-Hicks address the CSU Board of Trustees meeting this week, new report shows the federal government pays twice as ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=728&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=728&amid=424 On Monday, October 3, 2011, the CSUEU bargaining team firmly rejected management’s take-back proposals on Article 24 (Layoffs). The union character...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=729&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=729&amid=424 Negotiations Continue; Union Rejects CSU’s Parking Pay Cut Proposal and Attacks on Employment Security; Union Demands Movement Through the Salary R...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=731&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=731&amid=424 Bargaining team concludes three days of intense negotiations, be sure to understand any ballot initiative petitions before signing, the Occupy Wall...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=730&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=730&amid=424 October 7, 2011: CSUEU stands in solidarity with our sisters and brothers occupying Wall Street. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=732&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=732&amid=424 As detailed in this October 8 Sacramento Bee </...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=733&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=733&amid=424 In this thought-provoking October 9 New York Times </...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=734&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=734&amid=424 There's room for compromise on pension reform, and public employees support some reform strategies--that's the premise of this <a href="http:/...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=735&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=735&amid=424 As this October 13 ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=736&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=736&amid=424 No to the parking pay cut proposal, Board of Directors endorses OccupyWallStreet, CSEA Women's Conference is a success, new poster honors Dolores H...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=737&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=737&amid=424 As detailed in this October 22 Sacramento Bee art...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=738&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=738&amid=424 A recently released study by the nonpartisan watchdog Project On Government Oversight says the federal government signs off on service contract bil...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=739&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=739&amid=424 Three days of contract bargaining between CSUEU and the CSU concluded last week at Long Beach State (October 18-19) and Dominguez Hills (October 20...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=740&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=740&amid=424 Latest contract bargaining news, Mike Geck's first-person account on handling security for Occupy San Diego, CSEA Foundation nears this year's fund...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=741&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=741&amid=424 A comprehensive new study that profiles 280 of America’s most profitable companies finds that 78 of them paid no federal income tax in at least one...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=742&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=742&amid=424 On October 27, 2011, Governor Brown proposed a 12-point plan to “reform” all public employee pension systems in California. This <a href="/LinkClic...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=743&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=743&amid=424<div style="border-bottom: medium none; text-align: left; border-left: medium none; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; b...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=744&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=744&amid=424 The CSUEU Board of Directors has approved a resolution supporting CFA in its actions planned for November 17. We must remember that the CSUEU/CSU c...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=745&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=745&amid=424 Voters in Ohio trounced a centerpiece of the conservative legislative agenda on Tuesday, striking down a law that restricted public workers’ r...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=746&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=746&amid=424 There was an abrupt ending to the second day of the CSU Board of Trustees meeting, Wednesday, November 16. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=747&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=747&amid=424 CSUEU makes its voice heard at Tuesday's and yesterday's CSU Board of Trustees meeting, CSUEU supports CFA's strike today, Toni Kukreja contributes...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=748&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=748&amid=424 In an exclusive interview with the Associated Press on Friday morning, November 18, CSUEU President Pat Gantt gave voice to the frustration of ever...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=749&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=749&amid=424 The CSU Employees Union released the following comments today in the wake of the CSU Board of Trustees’ November 16 closed meeting: “Th...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=750&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=750&amid=424 Contract bargaining resumes this Monday, CSU cancels next Board of Trustees meeting, legislature schedules hearing on police responses to camp...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=751&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=751&amid=424 This December 4 Sacramento Bee editorial </...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=752&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=752&amid=424 The CSUEU bargaining team met with CSU management at the Office of the Chancellor in Long Beach from Monday, December 5, through Thursday, December...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=754&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=754&amid=424 On December 7, we lost one of our union sisters, Annette Lujan, 48, in a tragic elevator accident at the CSU Long Beach Foundation building. Annett...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=753&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=753&amid=424 At least three initiatives for increased education funding have made it to the fall ballot--but, unfortunately, they could cancel each other o...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=755&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=755&amid=424 December 13: CSUEU released this statement in response to the Department of Finance’s action this morning to enact $1 billion in mid-year trigger c...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=756&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=756&amid=424 Bargaining continues in January, CSU budget is cut by another $100 million, legislators call for an independent investigation of the Nove...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=757&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=757&amid=424 According to the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office , two ballot proposals aimed at c...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=758&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=758&amid=424 In this January 2 San Francisco Chronicle opinion ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=759&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=759&amid=424 January 5: In a press conference this afternoon, Gov. Jerry Brown outlined his proposed 2012-13 budget, which calls for no change from this year’s ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=760&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=760&amid=424 Proposed 2012-13 CSU funding remains flat, the Legislative Analyst's Office advocates more oversight of California's public higher education system...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=761&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=761&amid=424 In this commentary , California Budget Project Executive Director Jean Ross argues that...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=762&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=762&amid=424 The latest edition of University Employee, featuring thought-provoking articles on a wide range of union issues, is now <a href="/Lin...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=763&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=763&amid=424 The CSUEU bargaining team successfully concluded negotiations for a new contract this afternoon. CSUEU and CSU reached a tentative agreement which ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=764&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=764&amid=424 Your CSUEU bargaining team recommends ratification of the tentative agreement (TA) reached with the CSU on January 13, 2012. In coming weeks, barga...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=765&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=765&amid=424 Descriptions of proposed changes per the tentative ...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=766&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=766&amid=424 Chapter meetings set to discuss tentative agreement ratification, CSUEU members speak out at this week's CSU Board of Trustees meeting, CSU tr...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=767&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=767&amid=424 Chapters meet across the state to learn more about the tentative agreement, Obama hints at action against steep tuition hikes, union membership not...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=769&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=769&amid=424 In a newly published report , the Legislative Analyst's Office&#16...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=770&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=770&amid=424 A group hoping to put an overhaul measure before vote...Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:56 GMThttp://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=771&amid=424http://www.csueu.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx?itemid=771&amid=424