Strike vote begins at CSU
Faculty cast ballots amid debate within union over public perception
By Eric Stern - Bee Staff Writer
Last Updated 6:15 am PST Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Story appeared in METRO section, Page B1
Eric Vega supervises a ballot box at CSU Sacramento on Monday, where faculty
members began voting on whether to authorize a strike. Results of the vote
are expected to be announced on March 21.
Sacramento Bee/Renée C. Byer
To hear it from the Sacramento State faculty, the dispute over a new salary
contract is about everything but their salaries.
It is about President Alexander Gonzalez's pay raise and perks -- a $60,000
bump over the past two years. It is about the office he remodeled a few
years ago and his push for new athletic facilities.
"It goes back to the campus priorities," said Robert Metcalf, a biology
professor since 1970, standing Monday near a ballot box where faculty
members were voting for the first time on whether to authorize a strike if
contract talks fail.
Gonzalez has become a target of scorn -- the local face of the statewide CSU
system that has battled for two years with a 23,000-member faculty union.
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