CFA San José

Faculty Rights Chair-Janet Stemwedel 

Faculty Rights Committee – Deanna Fassett

Chapter President – Ray Buyco

San Jose State Field Representative – Shamako Noble

CFA Staff Faculty Rights Support – Robin Rahil

Calfac Faculty Rights Page 

Collective Bargaining Agreement 

CFA Grievance filing and Discipline Appeal Guide 

Faculty Rights Tips 

Faculty Rights Resources 

Grievance Form 

CFA Representation Policy 

Salary Issues/Range Elevation 

Workload Issues 

Academic Freedom 

TPM 

CFA will help, but it is necessary that you choose the track, sign the grievance, file it on time and with the appropriate administrator, and provide the information necessary to understand and pursue a resolution of your problem.

These forms and resources will be helpful for anyone facing a grievance situation.

• Campus CFA Chapter Faculty Rights Representatives
• Lecturers’ Handbook
• Coaches Handbook
• Counselors Handbook
• Grievance Flow Chart
• Statutory Hearing Manual
• CFA Representation Policy
• EP&R 76-36: Faculty Workload Policies and Procedures This 1976 document is still relevant to faculty employment in the CSU today.
• App for Reporting Police Misconduct
• Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act (HEERA)
• Unfair Practice Charge Information
• Employment Law fact sheets – click on “Employment”(these cover non-labor law topics like discrimination, family leave, unemployment benefits, etc.)
• Discrimination: While the Collective Bargaining Agreement has an anti-discrimination provision in Article 16, faculty are protected by federal and state laws.  For more information, go to California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission  Also see:
  • Interim CSU Nondiscrimination Policy, the CSU’s “Systemwide Policy Prohibiting Discrimination, Harassment, Retaliation, Sexual Misconduct, Dating and Domestic Violence, and Stalking against Employees and Third Parties and Systemwide Procedure for Addressing Such Complaints by Employees and Third Parties.”

Do you want to support Faculty fighting for rights, justice and equity? Are you interested in or skilled in reading, interpreting and applying policy? Then consider joining our Faculty Rights Committee!!!

How much work would this be?

We’re working to build out the committee in order to make sure that none of its members need to take on a heavy burden, and to refine our mechanisms to ensure that collectively we’re staying on top of faculty requests for help, sharing essential information, and refining our strategies together.  I can’t convert that to a firm hours/week ceiling, but I’m hopeful that it will end up averaging a few hours per week at most, and less than that most weeks.

What kind of work would this be?

The work of the FRC includes activities like:

-Helping other faculty members file grievances when they feel that they have been harmed by a violation of the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) or of University policy

-Helping other faculty members to mount arguments for more equitable pay

-Helping other faculty members to frame rebuttals to RTP or other evaluations — or to craft their narratives for such evaluations in the context of the policies that are supposed to guide these evaluations

-Helping other faculty members (such as department chairs) understand the CBA and/or University policy to avoid accidentally creating grievable situations

Generally, this is work aimed at making our University function more fairly for the Unit 3 faculty it employs — whether or not those faculty are CFA members.  A lot of it is one-on-one work, but if you enjoy giving workshops, there’s an opportunity to do some of that.  Some of the work of the FRC is oriented around understanding the rules, but some of it is oriented around persuading the University to treat compliance with the CBA and policy as a floor, rather than a ceiling.

In addition to regular check-ins the rest of the campus FRC, our CFA Field Rep and the CFA statewide Faculty Rights folks will be a resource to help you learn how to do this important work.  

I hope you’ll consider this invitation (and maybe even suggest a colleague or two you think might also be interested).  Please don’t hesitate to ask me any questions whose answers might make a difference to your decision!

Best,

Janet D. Stemwedel – Chair, Faculty Rights Committee (facrightschair.sj@calfac.org)

Shamako Noble – CFA SJSU Field Rep (snoble@calfac.org)