Hundreds of California State University faculty members staged a strike last Thursday at two campuses to protest the administration's decision not to pay negotiated raises -- and to draw attention to the impact of continuing budget cuts on the state's public colleges. The California Faculty Association -- which represents about 23,000 professors, lecturers, coaches, counselors and librarians at the system's 23 campuses -- authorized the one-day walkout at the East Bay and Dominguez Hills campuses. It was the first faculty strike since system-wide collective bargaining began in the early 1980s.
