Adopted:
ACADEMIC SENATE
of
CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY
San Luis Obispo, CA
AS-____-01/EC
RESOLUTION ON
STATUS OF CFA-CSU CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS
| WHEREAS, | The California State University (CSU) has imposed its contract on the faculty of the CSU at the conclusion of the last two rounds of contract negotiations; and |
| WHEREAS, | The current Faculty Merit Increase (FMI) program has been a major point of disagreement between the CSU and the California Faculty Association (CFA) in contract talks; and |
| WHEREAS, | After a thorough hearing of both sides, independent arbitrator Richard B. Danehy recently issued a Fact Finder's Report that stated that the FMI program "appears to be ill conceived and poorly administrated"; and |
| WHEREAS, | The Academic Senate of the CSU has endorsed the report of its merit pay task force and the recommendations of that report; and |
| WHEREAS, | The salaries of the faculty of the CSU remain below the average salaries of those faculty of the CPEC comparison institutions, even though there have been substantial salary increases for the past three years; and |
| WHEREAS, | Low salaries, high faculty workload and continual contract disputes, together with California's high cost of living, have seriously hampered the ability of the CSU to hire and retain good faculty; and |
| WHEREAS, | The CFA and the CSU are about to begin a new series of negotiations for a successor contract; therefore, be it |
| RESOLVED: | That the Academic Senate of Cal Poly urge the administration of the CSU to abandon the current FMI program; and be it further |
| RESOLVED: | That any future merit pay program be one based on the recommendation of the merit pay task force report of the Academic Senate CSU; and be it further |
| RESOLVED: | That criteria for "awards" in any merit pay program be made explicitly clear and public for each level of evaluation (i.e., departments, department chairs, deans, provosts, and presidents); and be it further |
| RESOLVED: | That the Academic Senate of Cal Poly urge that CFA and CSU work together to conclude contract negotiations in a timely manner and in such a way that will not have a negative impact on the efforts to recruit and retain new faculty. |
Proposed by: Academic Senate Executive Committee
Date: January 30, 2001
Revised: February 5, 2001