I am writing to bring you up to date on the Davis Faculty Association’s and the Council of University of California Faculty Association’s efforts to pressure the UC Administration to adjust downwards the cost of the health care plan options…
Dear DFA members and all fellow UCD Faculty, On October 26th, every UC employee received an Open Enrollment notice with new rates for healthcare benefits. The increases in the employee health benefits share are unprecedented and alarming. Costs for healthcare…
Dear Davis Faculty Association members, I sincerely hope that your quarter is going well. I hope that you are successfully navigating the competing demands of undergraduate and graduate teaching, research and scholarly mentorship, and university, professional, and community service. More…
This coming Monday is Labor Day, and there’s no better way to evoke the true spirit of the day than by celebrating with your fellow Union members. The Sacramento Central Labor Council, which the Davis Faculty Association recently joined, will…
Dear DFA members and other UCD colleagues, As many of you are probably aware, UC Davis will be the scene of several events, actions, and protests this Tuesday evening (03/14/23). An organization called Turning Point (TPUSA) is sponsoring an event…
Dear UC Davis faculty colleagues, The Davis Faculty Association, in collaboration with the Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA), wishes to offer some ideas and advice on the upcoming labor action that is planned next week for UC Davis, and…
Dear DFA members, We are sharing this letter-writing initiative begun by faculty, students, and staff to bring attention to problems with UCPath in case you are interested in signing on. Please consider signing this letter online, and sharing the link…
Dear Davis Faculty Association members, Well, we made it through another tough and trying year. We started back to campus with a combination of in-person masked instruction, remote instruction, and other hybrid combinations. Getting our vaccinations, maybe dealing with anti-vaxxers…
Dear DFA Members, We wanted to catch you up about an exciting new effort to improve higher education funding and governance at the national level, Higher Ed Labor United, or HELU, for short: Last Fall, CUCFA (the systemwide organization…
The Davis Enterprise has coverage of the UC-AFT picket and rallies that quotes DFA co-chair Jesse Drew’s rally speech: “It is no secret that employers in all industries have pushed workers into jobs with little security, no benefits, low wages…
