What Does a Strike Look Like?

• You do not show up to work. Period.
  • No email
  • No meetings with students
  • No teaching students
  • No distance learning
  • No counselling
• You are not paid during a strike. Period.
• We would need to organize protest activities and media campaigns to put pressure on the board of trustees to agree to our contract demands. This continues until a settlement is reached.
• If you call in sick you are not on strike.
• You do not earn California State Teachers’ Retirement Service credit while on strike.
• The Union strike fund can only offer partial compensation for lost wages to qualifying faculty.  Criteria are currently under development by the strike fund committee.
• Strikes are more likely to be successful when there is 100 percent participation.

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