UC faculty need to wake up to the systematic degradation of their pay and benefits. In 2009, when the salary furlough temporarily cut faculty salaries between 6 and 10%, faculty were outraged. Yet since then our compensation has been hit…
John Arnold — the billionaire former Enron trader who has been the financial backing for a proposed California ballot proposition that would eliminate constitutional protections for vested pension and retiree healthcare benefits for current public employees, including UC employees, if…
Several unions representing UC employees — AFSCME, CNA and UPTE — have hired Pension Trustee Advisors, Inc. (PensionTrusteeAdvisors.com), to examine the UC Retirement System. This pension consultant will be presenting the results of his research online in a “webinar” to…
The following is a press release that the Council of UC Faculty Associations distributed to media outlets: At their Special Meeting on Monday, December 13, the Regents of the University of California will be making decisions on two significant issues…
The UC Regents will be meeting on December 13th and voting on changes to post employment benefits as well as on recommendations from the UC Commission on the Future. The relevant portions of the Regents agenda are: UC Commission on…
According to Academic Senate Chair Dan Simmons, UC President Yudof has decided what his post employment recommendation to the Regents will be: over many objections he will recommend a second tier, a variant on option C. The Regents will discuss…
Yesterday, the Council of UC Faculty Associations sent the following letter about proposed changes to post employment benefits to UC President Yudof. When delivered to Yudof, this letter served as a cover letter to a longer report available at: …
The post-employment task force has released its report and it is available online at: UC President Yudof distributed a letter about the report in advance of its release. Here is an excerpt: “The first issue to be addressed concerns…
It has been another busy year for the Davis Faculty Association and our affiliate CUCFA (Council of UC Faculty Associations). In recent years we have made an effort to communicate with our members more frequently. Toward that end, we rebuilt…
