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Hundreds of Cal State Los Angeles faculty staged a one-day strike at their campus on Wednesday, Dec. 5 — the third iteration of similar actions planned by their fellow union members across the state this week. The California Faculty Association, a labor union representing around 29,000 instructional faculty, lecturers, librarians, counselors and coaches across the California State University system’s 23 campuses, planned the week of one-day walkouts as part of efforts to a negotiate a new labor contract. The union’s chief concern, according to its website, is securing 12% pay...

The union representing faculty across the California State University system is set to continue their series of one-day strikes on Wednesday, this time at Cal State Los Angeles. The California Faculty Association, which represents more than 29,000 tenured lecturers, librarians and counselors on the Cal State system’s 23 campuses, is looking for a 12 percent wage increase this academic year plus other concessions, including better parental leave, workload support and improved mental health services. Faculty members, who began their strike on CSULA’s campus around 7 a.m.

In the spirit of the holiday season, the labor movement keeps on giving the gift of strikes. This time, California State University faculty are the ones walking the picket line. The California Faculty Association, which represents close to 29,000 professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors and coaches across the CSU system, is staging one-day strikes at multiple campuses this week. Sacramento State is next up on the list, with the rolling strike scheduled to reach California’s capital city Thursday.

Libby Black usually spends her Tuesdays in the classroom, teaching painting and drawing at San Francisco State University. But today, the associate professor was on a picket line — one of thousands of CSU professors, lecturers, and other faculty members demanding higher wages across the 23-campus system. “We were already behind inflation,” said Black, speaking over the cheers of the rally around her. “We’re not asking for anything luxurious here.” The one-day strike at SF State was the second of four planned at CSU campuses this week. It began with...

Picketers dressed in union red — and one in an alligator onesie, in honor of the school’s mascot — marched with signs in hand at the entrance to the campus on 19th Avenue and Holloway Avenue. They rattled noisemakers and blew vuvuzelas at the passing cars, many of whom honked their horns in a show of support. The one-day San Francisco strike is the second of four planned throughout the week across the state by members of the California Faculty Association union, who say their pay has not kept up...

California State University faculty's rolling strike was set to launch round two at the San Francisco State campus on Tuesday. The first of the four one-day strikes took place Monday at Cal Poly Pomona. The union for faculty members at CSU campuses, the California Faculty Association (CFA), represents 29,000 professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors, and coaches at CSU campuses. Union leaders say the salary increases CSU has proposed are not adequate. At the San Francisco State campus on Sunday, many students were busy preparing for finals, and most who spoke with...

Faculty at Cal-Poly Pomona strike on campus, the beginning of one day rolling walkouts this week on California State University campuses. Hundreds of Cal Poly Pomona faculty members Monday crowded on sidewalks near main entrances, carrying signs that read “On strike!” as they called for higher wages — and shared stories about why they walked out, launching the first of four one-day strikes throughout the California State University system. Some faculty members say they have delayed decisions to start families because they can’t afford to raise a child. Others juggle...