CSU faculty protest statewide - salary inequality, inversion and stagnation on the bargaining table

California State University faculty took to the quads this week in protest, while contract talks continue.  CFA members have been without a contract since June.

California Maritime Academy

The offer from CSU is 3% this year and 2% in each of the following two. The union is asking for 4% now and 3% for the next two years.

A raise is not the only demand.

Speaking for CSULB faculty, CFA chapter president Douglas Domingo-Foraste told the Long Beach Press Telegram:

"We've been very patient in sacrificing for the university for eight years, since we last had a raise, and since that time the salary structure has gotten all screwy. Some people aren't paid enough. Some people are making more as a beginning assistant professor than an associate professor."

California Maritime faculty member Amy Parsons explained to the Vallejo Times Herald how salaries became inverted:

"Those hired before me have the same qualifications, but because they were hired during the economic downturn, they make less. Inversion hurts everybody."

Contract talks continue next week.