Negotiations update: Compensation & load proposals presented to District

Posted on March 16, 2018 by AFT 2121

On Wednesday, March 14, 2018, AFT 2121 presented its opening salary and workload proposal to the District during our open negotiations session. Several faculty testified, providing insight into the day-to-day challenges that faculty face trying to serve students amidst excessive workloads and non-competitive salaries. In a particularly emotional and compelling story, one Nursing instructor related how she has been forced, after more than 20 years of teaching at CCSF, to choose between her job at a hospital and her teaching. Unfortunately, she is leaving CCSF. The message was clear: addressing both the excessive workloads and underpay of faculty are essential if CCSF is to be able to attract and retain well-qualified faculty and protect educational quality.

(Picture) Nursing Department Chair Debra Giusto explains to District negotiators how her program is under threat and may not survive because of excessive workloads and the constant struggle to retain nursing faculty.

AFT salary proposal

Our detailed comparison with Bay 10 community colleges, reveals that reforms in the faculty full-time salary structure are needed along with across-the-board increases in order to bring salaries above the Bay Ten median. We are proposing:

• Increasing the value of salary columns to equal step increases;

• A $6,000 flat across-the-board increase;

• Passing on the State-funded COLA in each year of the contract to keep pace with other districts;

• An additional 1% each year beyond COLA to catchup with other Bay 10 Colleges.

• Proportionate increases from these raises to all part-time and full-time overload pro-rata scales;

• New full-time “longevity” salary steps and part-time “mirror” steps;

• New full-time overload steps.

Full AFT 2121 salary proposal

AFT load proposal

Over the last few sessions, members from across disciplines have presented rationales for improving load factors, leading to our load proposal, which includes:

• Increasing science labs and clinical nursing to the lecture rate (1.0)

• Increasing .75 lab courses to .80

• Increasing the noncredit load factor from .60 to .67 (i.e. lower FT workload from 25 to 22.5 hrs/wk)

Full AFT 2121 load proposal

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