CFA needs to lobby even harder. It must work more closely with its affiliates, and get its message out to other groups. CFA also learned that there is a distinct advantage to having a ratified collective bargaining agreement calling for certain salary increases. CFA placed the urgent need for faculty raises on the legislature's agenda. I trust that your summer was restful, because this academic year will be filled with challenges for the CSU faculty.
Opportunity presents itself.
This campaign is intended to give us the power to renegotiate successfully your collective bargaining agreement. To be successful in this effort, CFA needs your attention and active support. CFA also needs your ideas and sense of priorities. During the next few months, CFA officers intend to visit each campus to discuss these challenges and opportunities with you and your colleagues. Together we must develop strategies that will provide the greatest benefit for the faculty, our students and the university.