{"id":506939,"date":"2026-10-24T21:58:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T21:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/506939\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T21:58:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T21:58:24","slug":"csu-faculty-union-seeks-strike-authority-as-contract-talks-stall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/506939\/","title":{"rendered":"CSU faculty union seeks strike authority as contract talks stall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The California State University faculty union is asking its members to authorize a strike, as negotiations with the California State University system remain stalled.<\/p>\n<p>This summer, the California Faculty Association declared an impasse after 16 months of negotiation with the CSU. The <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nqF6uJ-fjVg&amp;t=5s\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"box-sizing:\" border-box=\"\" margin:=\"\" padding:=\"\" outline:=\"\" none=\"\" color:=\"\" rgb=\"\" cursor:=\"\" pointer=\"\" text-decoration:=\"\" underline=\"\" text-underline-offset:=\"\" transition:=\"\" color=\"\" ease-out=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">union\u2019s president said<\/a> university officials negotiating with the union have \u201cnot been honest agents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If a majority of members approve the strike authorization, voting from Oct. 26 through Nov. 19, CFA leadership would be authorized to call a strike.<\/p>\n<p>The union, which represents 29,000 professors and other university employees, is seeking salary increases, changes to faculty workloads and protections related to the use of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, CSU has <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.calstate.edu\/csu-system\/news\/Pages\/CSU-Reaches-Third-Tentative-Labor-Agreement-in-Three-Weeks-Covering-More-Than-14,000-Employees.aspx?utm_source=CSU+Leader&amp;utm_campaign=3cc4ae9ca8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_10_05_09_52_COPY_20&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-924349acaa-572552449\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"box-sizing:\" border-box=\"\" margin:=\"\" padding:=\"\" outline:=\"\" none=\"\" color:=\"\" rgb=\"\" cursor:=\"\" pointer=\"\" text-decoration:=\"\" underline=\"\" text-underline-offset:=\"\" transition:=\"\" color=\"\" ease-out=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reached tentative agreements<\/a> with three unions: the Statewide University Police Association, the United Auto Workers Local 4123 and Academic Professionals of California. Together, the agreements cover 14,000 university employees.<\/p>\n<p>The tentative agreements, which must be approved by union members and CSU\u2019s Board of Trustees, include an 8% salary increase over two years, along with one-time raises negotiated by each bargaining unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The California State University faculty union is asking its members to authorize a strike, as negotiations with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-506939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506939","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=506939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}