Contract Campaign for Decent Pay
All faculty are invited to attend AFT’s Flex Day Workshop (TBA) on Jan. 12, 2018, as we kick off our campaign for better faculty pay, which will include:
- Learn about ways we can communicate our message about faculty pay in negotiations and publicly.
- Presentation by retired Economics Instructor Doug Orr on Bay Ten community college salary comparisons, both FT and PT, and implications for our bargaining demands.
- A look at District budget figures and their significance by David Peiper, budget analyst for the AFT bargaining team.
- Organizing our members in support of Union actions at the bargaining table, at Board of Trustee meetings, and beyond, where members can tell their stories of the impact of the salary crisis at CCSF upon their lives.
Negotiations Update
Class cuts/restoration: At our Nov. 29 bargaining session, Interim Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs Tom Boegel said he will not be ordering class cuts across the board going forward – in other words, not giving entire programs or departments target percentages by which they need to cut. If your department is told to cut classes by a target percentage or FTE number, please contact your union rep or our union office immediately.
Boegel mentioned several times “the road to 32,000 FTS,” which the Chancellor has also talked about as a goal. He said an enrollment committee working on a plan – but he didn’t commit to the Spring of ’18 schedule of classes being bigger than Spring ’17.
New TAs going into effect: Vice Chancellor of Human Resources Dianna Gonzales is going to introduce to the Board of Trustees resolutions putting into effect two recent tentative agreements: One will allow full-time faculty carrying a “load deficit” (due to a cancelled class, for example) to use summer work to make up that deficit. The other will merge categorical faculty’s sick leave with regular sick leave, so sick leave earned in categorical assignments will not expire. AFT will take the same proposals to our Executive Board for approval. If passed by both boards, these policies will go into effect Jan. 1.
Non-credit attendance: Monika Liu, Associate Dean Admissions & Records, gave a presentation on non-credit attendance. She didn’t bring projections, but will be sending those to our team. Non-credit attendance numbers will have a big impact on the total enrollment growth number for this semester.
SLOs & evaluations: We proposed removing any mention of SLOs from faculty evaluations. Administration will respond to that proposal this week.
VC of Finance resigns: As we reported previously, Vice Chancellor of Finance David Martin is leaving in early December. Administration says they are moving forward on getting someone into his position as soon as possible. Members of our team met with VC Martin twice last week to get the financial information we need to formulate our compensation proposals.
Observers: Five faculty members came to observe negotiations.
This Week: We plan to present on sabbatical leave, and hope to hear back from Admin on flex obligations, clearer language on medical benefits, removing SLOs from evaluations, the 2018-19 calendar, and retiree rights. If you would like to observe negotiations, please review our open negotiations guidelines. Session are in MUB 238, Wednesdays 1pm-5pm.
(Left) Precinct Rep Carolyn Cox sticking with her Union.
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