The tentative contract between the California Faculty Association (CFA) and the California State University (CSU) Board of Trustees was made official May 16 after the board voted in favor to ratify it.
According to the contract, all faculty members will receive a 20.7 percent pay increase over the four-year course of the contract, and 3 percent of that is retroactive back to July 2006.
For the 2007/2008 school year, the Cal State Long Beach budget falls just over $300 million short of covering the new costs of the contract and costs from other bargaining parties, according to Ted Kadowaki, the CSULB assistant vice president of budget planning and administration. Kadowaki said CSULB will use temporary money, which is money accumulated over the years through cost-saving methods, to cover the difference. He said the temporary money should hopefully last a couple of years until some permanent funds can be found. There should not be any program cuts at CSULB according to Kadowaki. He also said the governor’s revised budget proposal should not have an effect on CSULB.
