{"id":504831,"date":"2026-10-23T00:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T00:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/504831\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T00:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T00:58:15","slug":"faculty-and-students-protest-csu-event-demand-higher-pay-and-job-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/504831\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty and Students Protest CSU Event, Demand Higher Pay and Job Security"},"content":{"rendered":"

The rally follows a recent impasse in contract negotiations between the faculty union and California State University.<\/p>\n

Oct 22, 2026<\/p>\n

Updated 5:25 pm PT<\/p>\n

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Over a dozen California Faculty Association members, faculty and students from San Jos\u00e9 State University marched in a picket line on Oct. 22, 2026, with signs chanting, “What do we want? Fair contracts! When do we want it? Now!\u201d\u00a0(Alina Ta\/KQED)<\/p>\n

A group of California<\/a> Faculty Association union members and students rallied in San Jos\u00e9 on Thursday to protest a speech by the state university system\u2019s chancellor, demanding higher pay and more job security protections against AI.<\/p>\n

Lecturers, faculty members and students from Sacramento and San Jos\u00e9 State University marched in the rain in front of the city\u2019s Signia Hilton Hotel, which hosted California State University\u2019s 2026 Student Success Symposium.<\/p>\n

Holding signs that read \u201cCSU unfair to labor\u201d and \u201cStep up or strike out,\u201d they called on CSU Chancellor Mildred Garc\u00eda, who was giving a speech at the event. They chanted, \u201cWhat do we want? Fair contracts! When do we want it? Now!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to be heard at the bargaining table and let her know that faculty is present at San Jos\u00e9 State,\u201d said Ginevra Marta Scherini, a lecturer at the university. \u201cWe want fair bargaining and good outcomes for our contracts.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Tower Hall at San Jos\u00e9 State University on April 3, 2025.\u00a0(Gina Castro\/KQED)<\/p>\n

In July, the faculty union declared an impasse in contract negotiations after CSU returned with a proposal<\/a> that would cut their health benefits.<\/p>\n

Scherini, who said she\u2019s been working at the university for five years and teaches in three different departments, still has to work a second job to afford living in the Bay.<\/p>\n

She also said she\u2019s worried about how SJSU and CSU\u2019s interest in AI will impact her job security.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the major guardrails I hope to see come out is to make sure that artificial intelligence isn\u2019t used to replace faculty and substitute for classroom learning,\u201d Scherini added.<\/p>\n

San Jos\u00e9 State University spokesperson Michelle Smith McDonald told KQED at the event that the university is keeping its AI policies \u201cmore open\u201d to allow professors and lecturers to freely decide how they want it to be used in the classroom.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe university hears those concerns, the provost hears those concerns, and it\u2019s a matter of how prescriptive you are about AI and AI usage,\u201d McDonald said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The rally follows a recent impasse in contract negotiations between the faculty union and California State University. Oct…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-504831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}