CSU tutors, teacher aides in labor talks (San Bernardino)

[struggle4progress]

By Janet M. Harp, Staff Writer

Cal State San Bernardino's 160 students employed as teachers' assistants or as tutors are joining a mission for better pay and benefits, tuition waivers and protection against excessive workloads. <snip>

The effort is being organized by the California Alliance of Academic Student Employees/United Auto Workers, the new union for the employees in the California State University system. <snip>

Because union activists feel they are not reaching an agreement with Cal State system officials on their own, they distributed letters this month to state representatives asking them to urge the officials to agree on the first contract with the union, which the Cal State system began recognizing in August. <snip>

Issues in dispute include just-cause protection for discipline and discharge, protection from excessive workload, health benefits, guaranteed wage increases and tuition-fee waivers. <snip>

http://www.sbsun.com/Stories/0,1413,208~12588~2831563,00.html

[rodeodance]

1. good for them. They are the backbone of big university's who can

well afford some benefits to the 'low' people on the totam pole.