Dozens of union members from throughout the California State University system held up picket signs and marched around the Chancellor’s Office in Long Beach on Tuesday, Sept. 9 — to demand action, transparency and accountability from leadership on salary issues and other concerns.
Teamsters Local 2010, the California Faculty Association and other CSU unions gathered at the system’s headquarters, during Tuesday’s Board of Trustees meeting, to urge officials to take a 0% interest, short-term loan the state has offered and use it solely to restore premature job cuts, fund instruction, and pay the promised contractual raises and salary steps contained in various collective bargaining agreements. The Chancellor’s Office is reviewing whether to accept the loan, the CSU says on its website .