Campus
employees union holds protest at Brotman
Hall
By Starr T. Balmer
Online Forty-Niner
City Editor
About 100 members of the California State University Employees Union (CSUEU)
rallied for higher salaries and better benefits in front of Brotman Hall Thursday
afternoon.
Rocky Waters, Bargaining Unit 9 chairman, said CSUEU employees are rallying at
various California State University campus to bring awareness to full contract
bargaining, which allows them and CSU management to negotiate better working
conditions for employees.
"
The university resists to making proposals for wages and benefits," Pat
Gantt, president of CSUEU, said.
He said he wants to see better wages and more promotional opportunities.
CSUEU presented several proposals including a 13.7 percent raise for staff to
match those given by the Board of Trustees to campus presidents, no parking fees
and elimination of all non-grievability clauses.
"
Raises, Rights, Respects" lined the back of T-shirts CSUEU employees wore
in support of the full contract bargaining.
"
We are protesting for better salaries, for parking fees not to go up and for
a fair and better contract," Annel Martin, Bargaining Unit 7 chairwoman,
said.
Sharon Cunningham, Bargaining Unit 5 chairwoman of San Diego marched with a sign
that read "Show Us the Money" in support of higher salaries and better
benefits.
Cal State Long Beach is the second university with which CSUEU has begun negotiating.
They will be visiting 11 other CSU campuses throughout the year, supporting and
negotiating the full contract bargaining.
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