CFA PERB hearing on management’s AI initiative (web)
Citation
California Faculty Association (CFA). “CFA’s PERB Hearing on Management’s AI Initiative Now Underway.” News statement, June 10, 2026. https://www.calfac.org/cfas-perb-hearing-on-managements-ai-initiative-now-underway/. Read 2026-11-09.
Bottom line
- The faculty union of the California State University (CSU) says a Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) hearing began between CFA and CSU management. The case is about CSU’s “failure to meet and confer” over its AI Initiative of February 2025.
- CFA also asks for an AI article in its contract and sponsors SB 928, which requires the instructor of record to be a real person.
Background
CFA is the union of CSU faculty; the page says it has 29,000 members. This news statement reports the start of the PERB hearing and lists CFA’s other actions on AI: bargaining, legislation and press. It is an advocacy statement by one party to the case.
Key claims
- “Yesterday, a hearing with the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) began between CFA and management over CSU’s failure to meet and confer over the AI Initiative it launched in February 2025. The hearing is scheduled to continue on July 23.” (opening)
- “Our proposal includes ensuring the instructor of record be limited to human faculty members, protections for using or refusing to use the technology, professional development resources to assist faculty in understanding AI, further protections for faculty intellectual property, and refusing AI’s use in personnel issues including evaluation, tenure, and hiring.” (CFA is fighting at the bargaining table)
- “We are further demanding that no faculty member (including those in the tenure/tenure-track, lecturers, Counselors, Coaches, and Librarians) be replaced by AI.” (CFA is fighting at the bargaining table)
- “Yesterday, CFA sponsored bill SB 928 passed out of committee with a unanimous vote, which defines a faculty member as a real person, preventing them being replaced by AI, and requires that an instructor of record for a course be a real person.” (CFA is fighting with legislation)
- “$39 Million for 3 Years: CSU System Renews Contract with OpenAI,” a Sacramento Bee headline that the statement lists. (CFA is fighting in the press)
Evidence and method
A union news statement. It reports a legal hearing and the union’s own proposals. It gives no text of the PERB filing and no response from CSU management.
Limits
The statement gives only CFA’s side of the case. It does not describe what the CSU AI Initiative includes. The OpenAI contract figure is a news headline that the statement lists, not a figure from a contract. The statement does not give the outcome of the hearing or of SB 928.