The Academic Workers Rank-and-File Committee at San Diego State University (AWRFC-SDSU) and the World Socialist Web Site are hosting an Emergency Online Public Meeting this Thursday at 7pm Pacific: “Stop the CFA betrayal of the strike! Vote NO on the sellout TA! Organize rank-and-file control and expand the struggle! Billions for public education, not for war and genocide!”

Register to attend the meeting here.

On Monday night, the California Faculty Association called off the remainder of the four day strike planned for this week and announced a snap tentative agreement. More details on the contract will emerge soon, but the CFA’s supposed “highlights” already point to major concessions in favor of the California State University system. The 5 percent wage increases under the new TA are nearly identical to the CSU’s “last best offer” which workers had rejected earlier. Adding insult to injury, even this is not guaranteed, as the 2024 increases are contingent on state funding. It has yet to be announced when the deal will be voted on.

“This is a betrayal of all the faculty, and the students and staff who have tried to fight for something important,” one CSU faculty member told the WSWS. “It’s ‘historic’ only in the sense that it happened so quickly. This tentative agreement is almost exactly what the CSU administration proposed as its last best offer. The CFA seems to be even more scared of the power of its members acting in unity than the CSU management. Shocking, yet predictable.”

Rank-and-file control is critically necessary to fight this sellout by the CFA bureaucracy. The AWRFC-SDSU and the WSWS invites faculty, lecturers, staff and students for a discussion on mobilizing independently of the CFA, rejecting the TA, developing new rank-and-file committees across CSU, continuing the strike and expanding their struggle to all sections of the working class.