CREW Events and Workshops

CREW has organized the following discussions about labor history, organizing training workshops, and contract article revision workshops to develop new proposed language for bargaining.

Events happen each Friday from 4pm-5pm. All events are hosted online (via Zoom) unless otherwise indicated. Please register using the links below to receive an invitation to join each meeting. You can also receive reminders about these events by joining our mailing list.

Please help us let your colleagues know about them by forwarding the announcements to other CFA and CREW members and having them announced in your chapter newsletters. 

  1. CREW Events and Workshops
    1. Which Kind of Union Do We Have: Class Struggle Unionism or Business Unionism?
    2. Article 12. Appointments Contract Article Revision Workshop
    3. The Importance of Striking BIG
    4. Organizing for a Safe Campus Workshop
    5. Article 15. Evaluation Contract Article Revision Workshop
    6. Article 5. Management Rights
    7. 1968 SFSU Student and Faculty Strike
    8. Resisting the Financialization of the CSU
  2. Want to Host an Event?

Which Kind of Union Do We Have: Class Struggle Unionism or Business Unionism?

Friday, October 25, 2024 at 4pm — Online event — LABOR HISTORY

Led by Ann Robertson, SFSU Retiree Rep, Senior Lecturer Emeritus

See short attached reading: Chapter 2, pages 16-35, of Joe Burns book, Class Struggle Unionism

Register

Article 12. Appointments Contract Article Revision Workshop

Co-led by Ali Kashani (SFSU Lecturer Rep) and Brad Erickson (SFSU Chapter President)

Friday, November 1, 2024 at 4pm — Online Event — CONTRACT ARTICLE REVISION WORKSHOPS

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The Importance of Striking BIG

Robin Marie, Chico M&O Chair, Lecturer, History Department. See the flyer.

Friday, November 8, 2024 at 4pm — Online Event — UNION ORGANIZING 101

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Organizing for a Safe Campus Workshop

Led by Tenaya Lafore, EdD, UC Berkeley, Labor Occupational Health Program

Friday, November 15, 2024 at 4pm — Online event — UNION ORGANIZING 101

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Article 15. Evaluation Contract Article Revision Workshop

Led by Brad Erickson (SFSU Chapter President). See the Resolution to Eliminate Quantitative Ranking of Faculty. Co-author with Wei Ming Dariotis of “Equity and efficacy in teaching effectiveness assessment (TEA).” In K. R. Roth, F. Kumah-Abiwu, & Z. S. Ritter (Eds.), Emancipatory change in US higher education (pp. 53–85). Palgrave Macmillan. (2023). 

Friday, November 22, 2024 at 4pm — Online Event — CONTRACT ARTICLE REVISION WORKSHOPS

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Article 5. Management Rights

Co-led by Robert Ovetz (SJSU) and Kevin Van Meter (Univ. of S. Maine Scontras Labor Center)  who will examine why Article 5 is a threat to having a fighting union that can defend and improve public higher education. Robert and Kevin are the co-authors of “Management Rights, Workers Wronged” (Dollars & Sense magazine, M/A 2023)

Friday, December 6 at 4pm — Online Event — CONTRACT ARTICLE REVISION WORKSHOPS

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1968 SFSU Student and Faculty Strike

Led by Gifford Hartman, Global Labour University and SF Bay Area labor organizer.

Friday, December 13, 2024 at 4pm — Online Event — LABOR HISTORY

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Resisting the Financialization of the CSU

Led by Jason Wozniak (professor West Chester Univ., PA, co-author Lend and Rule, 2024)

TBD — Online Event — UNION ORGANIZING 101

Want to Host an Event?

If you or your chapter would like to propose or sponsor an event, or if you have ideas for other events you would like to lead, please contact our current event coordinator, Robert Ovetz, SJSU rfovetz@riseup.net