Disclaimer: The following resolutions are provided here for convenience and increased context. Please consult the CFA directly for the official versions of these resolutions. All official procedures of submitting, presenting, and adopting resolutions are handled by the CFA directly. The CFA hosts resolutions on their own site for all previous assemblies. They do not list resolutions that were considered but failed, nor do they host minutes of assembly.
In addition, from some assemblies (specifically Spring ’24 and Fall ’24), final official vote tallies for resolutions have not been released by the CFA, despite multiple requests. If you think that this information should be made available to union members, please contact your local chapter delegates to express your concerns, or email events@calfac.org directly.
Please stay tuned for more info about past and upcoming CFA assemblies, as well as more information about these resolutions and our efforts to see their implementation in the CFA. Thank you all for your support! We will keep on fighting to make the CFA stronger and more effective! Our work is just getting started!
Table of Contents
- Fall Assembly 2025 (101st assembly)
- Spring Assembly 2025 (100th Assembly)
- Fall Assembly 2024
- Resolution to Establish a Strike Fund
- Resolution to Put Decision to Call off a Strike to a Vote of the Membership
- Resolution to Add an Article Protecting Academic Freedom to the Collective Bargaining Agreement
- Resolution to Abolish the Two-Tier Faculty Labor System: Tenure for All
- Resolution for a New CBA Article Governing Use of AI
- Spring Assembly 2024
- Future Resolutions
Fall Assembly 2025 (101st assembly)
Fall Assembly will be virtual, and will take place on Saturday October 18 and Sunday 19th. The CFA Board of Directors will meet Friday, October 17th. Typically, various caucuses meet earlier in the week to discuss business and endorse various resolutions. Stay tuned! Please ask your local CFA chapter / executive board / field rep for a registration link to attend these sessions.
Spring Assembly 2025 (100th Assembly)
At Spring Assembly 2025 (in-person), the following resolutions were passed by the general assembly. Many of these were authored by members of CREW and endorsed by CREW. Links are to resolutions hosted on the CFA website. Moreover, these are the official percentages as reported by the CFA here.
- Resolution to Amend the CFA Representation Policy (Passed by 64%)
- Resolution on Fighting CSU Mergers, Shutdowns, Cuts & Layoffs (Passed by 58%)
- Resolution on Becoming a Sanctuary Union (Passed by 100%)
- Resolution to Eliminate Quantitative Ranking of Faculty (Passed by 59%)
- Resolution to Fight Management Bloat (Passed by 95%)
- Resolution to Stop CSU Partnership with Israeli Universities (Passed by 83%)
- Resolution to Join AFT Lawsuit for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (Passed by 89%)
- Resolution to Fund the CSUs By Defunding CA Prisons (Passed by 99%)
Fall Assembly 2024
At Fall Assembly 2024, the following resolutions passed by vote of general assembly. See the CFA website for details (links to resolutions on their site).
- Resolution for a New CBA Article Governing the Use of AI
- Resolution to Abolish the Two-Tier Faculty Labor System
- Resolution to Add an Article Protecting Academic Freedom to the Collective Bargaining Agreement
- Resolution to Establish a Strike Fund
- Resolution to Fund Jobs and Education Not Wars and Occupation
The following five resolutions were introduced by members of CREW. We are pleased to announce that four of five of our resolutions passed!
Resolution to Establish a Strike Fund
Result: PASSED! (Vote count: unknown)
The resolution to establish a strike fund was presented at the spring assembly and ended in a 50/50 tie. It has since been amended, removing specific recommendations about what percentage of the budget to dedicate to the fund in response to concerns raised on the floor. (Submitted by: Robin Averbeck, CH)
Endorsements:
- CFA-Los Angeles Executive Board & College Stewards, October 15, 2024
- Asian Pacific Islander Desi Americans Caucus, October 16, 2024
- LGBTQIA+ Caucus, October 16, 2024 Teacher Education Caucus, October 16, 2024
- Native American Indigenous Peoples Caucus, October 17, 2024
- Black Caucus, October 18, 2024
- Council of Presidents, October 18, 2024
- Council of Lecturers, October 18, 2024
- Council for Racial and Social Justice, October 18, 2024
- Palestine Arab Muslim Caucus, October 18, 2024
- Chicanx/Latinx Caucus, October 18, 2024
- Counselors Committee, October 18, 2024
Resolution to Put Decision to Call off a Strike to a Vote of the Membership
Result: Failed (Vote count: unknown)
This resolution lost by a few votes at the spring assembly. It has been amended, removing a specific waiting period for a vote, allowing for more flexible implementation, which was a concern raised on the floor during Spring Assembly. (Submitted by: Anthony Ratcliff, LA)
Endorsements:
- CFA-Los Angeles Executive Board & College Stewards, October 15, 2024
- Asian Pacific Islander Desi Americans Caucus, October 16, 2024
- LGBTQIA+ Caucus, October 16, 2024
- Teacher Education Caucus, October 16, 2024
- Native American Indigenous Peoples Caucus, October 17, 2024
- Council of Lecturers, October 18, 2024
- Palestine Arab Muslim Caucus, October 18, 2024
- Chicanx/Latinx Caucus, October 18, 2024
- Counselors Committee, October 18, 2024
Resolution to Add an Article Protecting Academic Freedom to the Collective Bargaining Agreement
Result: PASSED! (Vote count: unknown)
This resolution was developed to defend faculty rights in response not only to the administrative overreach of the Interim Time, Place and Manner policy recently
imposed but the way the existing policy was used to suppress faculty rights last
spring on multiple campuses. (Submitted by: John Caravello, CI)
Note: The original draft of this resolution contained proposed language for what the article would look like, as well as other necessary amendments to the Collective Bargaining Agreement. The CFA required that the proposed language be removed before acceptance of this resolution for discussion.
Endorsements:
- CFA-Los Angeles Executive Board & College Stewards, October 15, 2024
- Asian Pacific Islander Desi Americans Caucus, October 16, 2024
- LGBTQIA+ Caucus, October 16, 2024
- Teacher Education Caucus, October 16, 2024
- Native American Indigenous Peoples Caucus, October 17, 2024
- Black Caucus, October 18, 2024
- Council of Presidents, October 18, 2024
- Council of Lecturers, October 18, 2024
- Council for Racial and Social Justice, October 18, 2024
- Palestine Arab Muslim Caucus, October 18, 2024
- Chicanx/Latinx Caucus, October 18, 2024
- Counselors Committee, October 18, 2024
Resolution to Abolish the Two-Tier Faculty Labor System: Tenure for All
Result: PASSED! (Vote count: unknown)
This resolution is the culmination of years of organizing and developing policy ideas by members of the Equity for Lecturer Faculty committee at San Francisco State. Most of the faculty who contributed ideas to this resolution have already lost their jobs due to budget cuts. (Submitted by: Ali Kashani, SF)
Endorsements:
- CFA San Francisco State University Chapter, May 24, 2024
- CFA-Los Angeles EBoard & College Stewards, October 15, 2024
- Asian Pacific Islander Desi Americans Caucus, October 16, 20204
- LGBTQIA+ Caucus, October 16, 2024
- Teacher Education Caucus, October 16, 2024
- Native American Indigenous Peoples Caucus, October 17, 2024
- Black Caucus, October 18, 2024
- Council of Presidents, October 18, 2024
- Council of Lecturers, October 18, 2024
- Council for Racial and Social Justice, October 18, 2024
- Palestine Arab Muslim Caucus, October 18, 2024
- Chicanx/Latinx Caucus, October 18, 2024
- Counselors Committee, October 18, 2024
Resolution for a New CBA Article Governing Use of AI
Result: PASSED! (Vote count: unknown)
This resolution was coauthored by several CFA members just in time for the deadline of resolution acceptance, and thus was not drafted in time to be considered by any CFA caucuses or councils for endorsement. However, it was discussed extensively on the assembly floor.
It resolves:
- That management be prevented from forcing the use of artificial intelligence by bargaining unit members
- That management may not use artificial intelligence to perform bargaining unit work
- That AI not be integrated into hiring processes of bargaining unit positions, and or into the processes of evaluation of bargaining unit members
- That the CSU meet engage in meet and confer sessions with any introduction of artificial intelligence that may impact the work of bargaining unit members, and
- that the California Faculty Association propose an article in its next round of bargaining to govern the use of AI towards these ends.
(Submitted by: Brian Dolber, SM)
Spring Assembly 2024
At 2024 Spring Assembly, CREW (or members of CREW) were able to bring forth many resolutions to the general assembly. Although official tallies were not ever made public by the CFA (despite repeated requests), we do have an informal sense of the vote totals, since they were conducted via Zoom polling.
Passed Resolutions
- Resolution to Encourage Participation in Statewide General Meetings
- Resolution to Conduct Power Structure Analysis (60% Yes)
- Resolution for a Big, Representative Bargaining Committee (51% Yes/44% No)
- Resolution for Mass Participation in Bargaining Sessions (70% Yes/ 27% No)
- Resolution to Create Article Committees (48% Yes, 45% No)
- Resolution to Fight Severe Cutbacks in Instruction on CSU Campuses
- Resolution to Support Palestinians and Their Allies in the CSU
Failed Resolutions
- Resolution to Elect the Bargaining Team (49% Yes/50% No)
- Resolution to Establish a Strike Fund (Tie)
- Resolution to Put Decision to Call Off a Strike to a Vote of the Membership (43% Yes/52% No)
Future Resolutions
We are already planning resolutions for future assemblies, as well as other avenues of effecting change in our union. Do you have ideas? Let us know, or join us and help out!
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