<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Just following up on this: thanks to all who worked on the Department statement. With apologies for cross-postings, I am attaching below a message from the Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA), responding to the now-infamous memo from Michael Brown, which (rightly) provoked a great deal of outrage and consternation systemwide. As you can see, the information in the Brown memo has been characterized as potentially misleading, in failing to distinguish between faculty being on strike, and refusing to pick up struck labor.<div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; font-size: 16px;" class=""><a href="https://sites.google.com/ucr.edu/farahgodrej" class="">Farah Godrej</a><br class="">Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies<br class="">Department of Political Science<br class="">University of California, Riverside <br class="">(she/her/hers)</div><div style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; font-size: 16px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; font-size: 16px;" class="">Author of <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/freedom-inside-9780190070090?cc=us&lang=en&" class="">Freedom Inside? Yoga and Meditation in the Carceral State</a> (Oxford University Press, 2022) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjC3q9Wh_kM" class="">preview</a></div><div style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; font-size: 16px;" class=""><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/societies/american-political-science-association/a-juneteenth-collection-from-the-apsa-journals?utm_source=hootsuite&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=MNE_campaign" class="">"</a><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/societies/american-political-science-association/a-juneteenth-collection-from-the-apsa-journals?utm_source=hootsuite&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=MNE_campaign" class="">A Juneteenth Collection: Examining the Structure and Consequences of the Carceral State</a>,” in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">American Political Science Review</i></div><div style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; font-size: 16px;" class=""> <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1065912920954537" class="">"Yoga, Meditation and Neoliberal Penality: Compliance or Resistance?”</a> in <i class="">Political Research Quarterly </i> </div><div style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; font-size: 16px;" class=""><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Fred-Dallmayr-Critical-Phenomenology-Cross-cultural-Theory-Cosmopolitanism/Godrej/p/book/9781138955936" class="">Fred Dallmayr: Critical Phenomenology, Cross-cultural Theory, Cosmopolitanism </a>(Routledge, 2017)</div><div style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; font-size: 16px;" class=""><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/cosmopolitan-political-thought-9780199782079?lang=en&cc=us" class="">Cosmopolitan Political Thought: Method, Practice, Discipline</a> (Oxford University Press, 2011) </div><div style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; font-size: 16px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; font-size: 16px;" class=""><div class=""><a href="https://ucr.zoom.us/j/5399165858" class="">Personal Zoom Room</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; font-size: 16px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 16px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 2, 2022, at 8:39 PM, Jennifer Merolla <<a href="mailto:merolla@ucr.edu" class="">merolla@ucr.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Dear All,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I wanted to share with you our department's statement in solidarity with academic workers in our department and across the UC system (see attached statement). We are also sending this to the email address collecting statements/letters of support on the UC fair now website.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best,</div><div class="">Jenn</div></div>
<span id="cid:f_lb7g2xd00"><UCR Department of Political Science Statement on the Strike by Graduate Student Employees.pdf></span>_______________________________________________<br class="">Poscgrad mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Poscgrad@lists.ucr.edu" class="">Poscgrad@lists.ucr.edu</a><br class="">https://lists.ucr.edu/mailman/listinfo/poscgrad<br class=""></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Council of UC Faculty Associations <<a href="mailto:newsletter@cucfa.org" class="">newsletter@cucfa.org</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Response to UC Provost Brown's letter</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">December 2, 2022 at 12:52:20 PM PST<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><<a href="mailto:godrej@ucr.edu" class="">godrej@ucr.edu</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Council of UC Faculty Associations <<a href="mailto:newsletter@cucfa.org" class="">newsletter@cucfa.org</a>><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><center class="" style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="100%" width="100%" id="bodyTable" class="" style="border-collapse: collapse; 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max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="mcnTextContent" valign="top" style="word-break: break-word; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px 18px 9px;"><div class="entry-content"><p class="" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;">Dear Colleagues,</p><p class="" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;">On Thursday, December 1, Senate faculty received a<a href="https://ucrfa.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=09ad3c84a389e9df513c0f81a&id=7c3e3620a9&e=9c214e736a" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(0, 124, 137);"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 205);"> </span></a><a href="https://ucrfa.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=09ad3c84a389e9df513c0f81a&id=c021413e85&e=9c214e736a" class="" style="color: rgb(0, 124, 137);"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 205);">potentially misleading email</span></a><a href="https://ucrfa.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=09ad3c84a389e9df513c0f81a&id=f3ead59218&e=9c214e736a" class="" style="color: rgb(0, 124, 137);"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 205);"> </span></a>from the President’s Office of the University of California, titled “Regarding Faculty Rights and Responsibilities,” and signed by Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs Michael Brown.</p><p class="" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;">This communication fails to distinguish between being on strike and declining to pick up struck labor. It is the case that the university may dock pay for any faculty on strike, although it is unclear precisely how they would enforce that policy. Faculty pay can only be docked for the period during which they choose to strike, not for the duration of the multi-unit strike itself. While a partial strike by faculty can be unprotected, it is unclear what mechanism of reporting or tracking the University is using to determine whether faculty are continuing to engage in non-instructional labor, such as their own research. Similarly, it is also not apparent what mechanism of reporting would be used to discipline those they believed have violated the Faculty Code of Conduct by engaging in the unprotected activity of a partial strike if they had continued non-instructional labor whether for university service or their own research.</p><p class="" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;">The vast majority of faculty have not been on strike; they have continued to teach their classes and to support the strike in other ways. However, UC is now asking Senate faculty to take up the struck labor of their ASEs on strike. Struck labor would include returning grades for classes with ASEs where ASEs are responsible for grading and/or grade submission. Refusing to do this additional labor, for no further compensation, does not represent being on strike. Refusing to pick up the struck labor of ASE grading is not the same as a sympathy strike, and so the issue of “all or nothing,” or “whole” or “partial” striking is irrelevant. Faculty have the<span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 205);"> </span><a href="https://ucrfa.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=09ad3c84a389e9df513c0f81a&id=b82a49cb1a&e=9c214e736a" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(0, 124, 137);"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 205);">HEERA-protected right not to take up this struck labor</span></a><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 205);"> </span>if they choose not to do so. And their pay cannot be docked for not picking up struck labor. If you choose not to pick up the struck labor of ASE grading, please<a href="https://ucrfa.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=09ad3c84a389e9df513c0f81a&id=4d9a4aaf21&e=9c214e736a" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(0, 124, 137);"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 205);"></span></a><a href="https://ucrfa.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=09ad3c84a389e9df513c0f81a&id=fc3600e72b&e=9c214e736a" class="" style="color: rgb(0, 124, 137);"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 205);">register that here</span></a> in this anonymous tally.</p><p class="" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;">Senate faculty are being told that if they do not pick up the struck work of ASE grading some undergraduate students will be harmed. We share the concern for students that depend on their grades to access financial aid, to earn scholarships, and who need their grades for other reasons. However, it is the university’s responsibility to make contingency plans that ensure these students are not impacted by the strike, and some campuses have already communicated to undergraduates that such plans are in place. They have the capacity, as they did during the pandemic, to be flexible about grades and deadlines.</p><p class="" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;">We urge all Senate faculty to support the multi-unit strike by graduate students, postdocs and student researchers. Low paid work and uncompetitive wages damage the capacity of the university to deliver world class teaching and research. You have HEERA protected legal rights to go on strike, and yet it is critical not to confuse that with your right to refuse to take up the additional struck labor of grading.</p></div><p class="" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;">Sincerely,</p><p class="" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;">Constance Penley, CUCFA President, Professor of Film and Media Studies UC Santa Barbara<br class="">Wendy Matsumura, CUCFA Vice President, Associate Professor of History UC San Diego<br class="">For the CUCFA Executive Board</p><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="mcnTextBlock" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr class=""><td class="mcnTextBlockInner" valign="top" style="padding-top: 9px;"><table class="mcnTextContentContainer" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="mcnTextContent" valign="top" style="word-break: break-word; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px 18px 9px;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;">If this has been forwarded to you and you are not already a member of your campus Faculty Association, this is a great time to join. 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