More than three years after filing an unfair practice charge against UC Davis, former UC Davis lecturers are seeing progress in their fight against the university’s plan to “re-balance” the number of research faculty and lecturers on campus.

An administrative law judge with the state’s Public Employment Relations Board issued a proposed decision in their favor, finding that the university interfered with the lecturers’ right to be represented by the University Council-American Federation of Teachers.

UC-AFT filed the unfair practice charge against the university in April 2001, but no action was taken until UC-AFT amended the charge the following year. The Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) then issued a complaint alleging that the university violated the Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act because the lecturers were not given proper notice and the opportunity for the UC-AFT to represent them. PERB alleged that by deciding unilaterally to discontinue the practice of making new post-six-year appointments of lecturers in November 2000, the university changed its criteria for reviewing and appointing lecturers without giving lecturers the opportunity to negotiate-a violation of the union agreement. The university answered the complaint in 2002, denying the allegations.

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