The Universities Council represents non-Senate faculty and
librarians working in classrooms, libraries, education programs
and professional schools on all 10 UC campuses at the University
of California. Universities Council negotiates statewide
contracts for its members, unique among the divisions of CFT.
Since the formation of the union in 1982, UC-AFT has worked to
improve wages, working conditions, job security and benefits for
members. Today, lecturers have one of the strongest non-Senate
faculty contracts in the nation. Yet, the struggle continues for
market rate salaries, adequate professional development funding,
reasonable workloads, better job security, and ultimately, an
equitable system of academic appointments for librarians and
teaching faculty at the University of California. UC-AFT has a
long history of involvement and cooperation with senate faculty
at UC, several hundred of whom have chosen to become members of
the union.