Teamsters Local 2010 filed yet another Unfair Labor Practice complaint with the State Labor Board on Friday, June 26, after CSU continued its bad faith bargaining during our latest bargaining session on June 23.
During that session, CSU failed to respond to our Union’s salary proposal and continued to refuse to negotiate multiple years of guaranteed raises. CSU again indicated that they will not commit to guaranteed raises for our members until there is a signed State budget. Such a stance undermines the entire collective bargaining process and is absurd given the substantial multi-year agreements countless other employers across California have agreed to, including contracts that CSU has agreed to in the past. CSU increasingly stands alone as the worst public sector employer in California even as it stands to receive hundreds of millions in new, ongoing funds in next year’s State budget.
“Workers are fed up with CSU’s disrespect and bad faith bargaining. CSU can afford to be fair with workers, but instead only hands out raises to overpaid executives while zeroing out workers who make the system run. Teamsters are leading the fight for fair treatment of CSU workers, and we are ready to do whatever it takes until we win.”
Jason Rabinowitz
Secretary-Treasurer, Teamsters Local 2010
Despite CSU’s continued stalling, our Bargaining Team continued to make proposals and push improvements in our contract language:
- Article 7 – Union Rights: Our Bargaining Team proposed improvements to the data CSU provides and increasing the number of hours available to train our union stewards.
- Article 10 – Appointment: Our team rejected CSU proposals to weaken existing requirements on postings and reports, while continuing to push for interview panel improvements, and stop the CSU from using a break in service to reset the clock for temporary employees.
- Article 13 – Personnel File: We stood firmly against continued CSU efforts to keep disciplinary records related to certain incidents in personnel files indefinitely.
- Article 28 – Health & Safety: Our team continued to press CSU for further improvements on safety shoes after getting CSU to put a minimum systemwide safety shoe allowance on the table for the first time. We also moved closer to agreement on improvements to safety training.
- Appendix D-7 – Provision of Information: Our team proposed reducing the fees that can be charged by CSU for fulfilling Teamsters’ information requests.
CSU passed proposals on the following articles during the session: Article 9 – Grievance Procedure, Appendix D-8 Side Letter on Arbitrators/Mediators, and Article 28 – Health & Safety.
We anticipate that CSU will finally respond to our salary proposal at our next meeting on July 14. Given CSU’s stalling and evasiveness at the table, we expect yet another disappointing and insulting lowball proposal from the CSU. Winning the raises we deserve, including the July 2025 raises that CSU owes our members, will require continued dedication and action to hold them accountable for their failed leadership.
