CFA to Vote on Strike

Members of the California Faculty Association will be voting in the coming weeks on whether or not to go on strike.

The CFA will be voting by campus over Mar. 5 through Mar. 8 and Mar. 12 through Mar. 15. Sixteen of the 23 CSUs will vote during the first session and the remaining 7 will vote in the second session. Long Beach State faculty will be voting in the second session.

According to the CFA's website, bargaining over salaries, parking costs, lecturer rights and class size are all items over which negotiations with the Chancellor's Office have reached a stalemate. CSU Long Beach President F. King Alexander's office could not be reached for comment on the upcoming vote.

If the organization does vote in favor of a strike for faculty members, teachers and other faculty will be implementing two-day rolling strikes across the state. Such action would be the first in the history of the CFA.