U.C. Santa Cruz Faculty Association
February 18, 2020
As the exclusive senate-faculty bargaining unit at UCSC, the SCFA is empowered to bargain with the administration over terms and conditions of senate-faculty employment at UCSC (not including system-wide matters). On February 18, the SCFA delivered a request to bargain with EVC Kletzer over potential plans to discipline hundreds of striking graduate students. This type of bargaining is known as “effects bargaining”, and holds that if the effects of an administrative action, whether or not that action is within the administration’s rights, would significantly impact our ability to do our jobs, then the administration is obliged to give notice to and allow bargaining with the SCFA about its proposed actions. Below is the text of our letter requesting bargaining.