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(Wed. 3/14) 17 Minute Walkout

• Tomorrow, AFT 2121 leaders will be out in solidarity wearing orange and standing with our banner in Ram Plaza from 10-10:17am. We hope you will come stand with us. Please wear orange if you can.
• Today, our AFT 2121 Executive Board passed a resolution supporting the student walk-out.
• Chancellor Rocha distributed this statement last week supporting the action.

The California Federation of Teachers Executive Board and AFT 2121 are in unanimous support of this action. Tomorrow join us in saying #ENOUGH!

(Wed. 3/14) AFT 2121 to present initial salary proposal

Tomorrow, Wednesday, March 14, 2018, AFT will be presenting its initial salary and workload proposal to the District during the open negotiations session between 1:30 and 5:00 p.m. All faculty are welcome to attend the session in MUB 238.

With the vacancies in District financial personnel only recently filled, the District has yet to identify key budget information. However, rather than wait any longer, the AFT bargaining team has decided to push forward with its demands to clarify our position as to what is needed to achieve the District’s and Union’s goal of bringing faculty salaries above the median of Bay Ten community colleges and to establish more equitable workloads at CCSF.

In the coming weeks, we will grapple with:

• the District’s budget deficit, caused by the drastic loss of apportionment dollars due to accreditation enrollment declines and the loss of stabilization funding;
• the build-up of a large CCSF Fund Balance to offset the loss in State funding;
• the increase in student enrollment since Free City, and the new revenues from this growth;
• prioritizing salary and workload improvements in light of the decline in faculty salaries and the affordability crisis in the S.F. Bay Area.

(Wed. 3/14, Thurs. 3/15 & Wed. 3/21) College for All tabling

Drop by our College for All table to sign the petition to make California colleges tuition-free for California residents at UCs, CSUs, and CCs. You can find us on Ocean Campus at Ram Plaza (between the Cafeteria and the Student Union Building) on Wed. 3/14, or Thurs. 3/15 between 11-1pm . If it’s raining look for us inside the Cafeteria.

(Sat. 3/17) AFT 2121 volunteer day: Jane Kim for SF Mayor

Our Union has endorsed Supervisor Jane Kim and Senator Mark Leno in the San Francisco Mayoral race.

Jane Kim worked tirelessly with our Union to champion the Prop W campaign and to make Free City College real. Now she needs our help. AFT 2121 is joining with the Jane Kim for Mayor team to hit the streets. On Saturday, 3/217 from 11-4pm please come out with us, talk to voters, and get out Jane’s message of creating a city that works for all of us!

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(Tues. 3/20) All AFT 2121 members invited to our General Membership and COPE Meetings

All AFT 2121 members are invited to our General Membership Meeting on Tuesday, 3/20from 3:00-4:30pm in MUB 140 and to our next COPE meeting from 4:30-5:30pm. We will be discussing changes to the AFT 2121 constitution and also making final nominations for our AFT 2121 leadership elections.

Revised agenda

(Thurs. 3/22) Balboa Reservoir project before City Budget & Finance Committee meeting

(Thurs. 3/22) Board of Trustees

We need our CCSF leaders to commit to doing what it takes to confront the affordability crisis, retain and attract well-qualified faculty, and protect educational quality at our college. You can help by telling your story. Why do you love your job? Is the affordability crisis threatening your ability to remain an educator? What about your students?

Join our union:

• in public comment to the Board of Trustees (March 22, 4pm, Fort Mason Campus)
• or share your story at Open Negotiations (Wednesdays, 2pm, MUB 238)

Let’s ask the Board of Trustees and our administration for their support in protecting what matters at our college.

Can’t come out to the Board of Trustees or Open Negotiations? You can support our Bargaining Team by committing or re-committing to our Union. If you have not done so this school year, please make a commitment to “stick with our union” for a full calendar year by signing our new membership form and sending it to us at aft@aft2121.org or at 311 Miramar Ave. SF, CA 94112.

Grievance news

• Resolution: as reported earlier, the announcement for a permanent EOPS Program Director is finally going out and will be retained as a faculty/Dept Chair position, a win for EOPS faculty.
• AFT is awaiting District response to our demand to provide copies of Title 5 complaints to the Union when representing faculty being interviewed.
• Categorical employees: AFT challenging District’s current and prospective employment of full-time faculty with SSSP or student health service fees on a categorical basis even though this is ongoing funding (SSSP) or a mandated service (student health).
• AFT is challenging the District’s failure to provide information or its rationale in the Vocational Nursing program regarding hours and scheduling, e.g. its failure to apply the 50-minute instructional hour to clinical assignments, assignment requests, e.g. to subject areas 43 vs. 41, and workload of VOCN faculty in violation of State regs and the contract.

AFT 2121 Leadership Elections

Every 2 years, we elect faculty who are members in good standing of our union to positions of leadership. Nominations for all Officer, Executive Board, Labor Council and AFT Convention delegate and Precinct Rep positions must be:

• submitted to the AFT office by Friday, March 16, 2018, or
• made from the floor of our AFT 2121 General Membership meeting at the Ocean Campus in MUB #140 on Tuesday, March 20, 2018, from 3:00-5:00pm.

Full election details