Faculty strike

Sacramento State faculty march as part of a 23 campus-wide strike of the California State University system on Monday.

After more than half a year of failed negotiations to increase their pay by 12% and expand other benefits, the faculty of the California State University Monday began a historic strike at all 23 campuses.

The planned one-week work stoppage is the first time the California Faculty Association has walked off the job at every campus since the union was founded in 1983. It鈥檚 part of an escalation of tactics by the faculty group, which staged one-day strikes at four campuses last month and vowed then to up the ante if their demands weren鈥檛 met.