(Wed. 4/9 between 1-5pm) Negotiations: Come out to show the District that their non-response disappoints
Last week, the District’s response to our detailed, exhaustively researched salary and workload proposal was an appalling non-offer: that for 2018/19, it would only be able to provide salary improvement equivalent to the 2.51% State COLA proposed by the Governor plus, perhaps, “a little more,” which would not bring us even close to the mutually stated goal to bring salaries above the Bay 10 median. For the second and third years of the agreement, the District suggested salary re-openers, with no commitment, and no specifics.
For five months our AFT 2121 Team have been engaged in good-faith negotiations with District Administration. Let’s show the District that we expect them to follow through on the promises they have been making to our Bargaining Team. Together we are strong. Clearly, the administration is not taking faculty seriously, so we need every union member to attend at least ONE of the following actions to show them that we mean business and that our needs will not be ignored!
- Wednesday, April 11, Open Negotiations between 1-5pm, MUB 238. Fill the room so the very next thing the District sees after this non-response is a room full of serious and fully engaged faculty ready to hold them accountable. Wear your AFT 2121 t-shirt and help us show the administration that this matters to us, that we are united, and that we demand better.
- Thursday, April 26, Board of Trustees meeting in MUB 140, 3:30pm: Teach-in on how our proposal will help to protect educational quality and student learning conditions. 4:00pm: Public Comment to the Board of Trustees.
- Wednesday, May 2, 12:00 noon: Rally at Ram Plaza, Ocean campus, 12:45 march to MUB for negotiations.
If you are joining any of these actions RSVP to organizer Athena Waid (awaid@aft2121.org, 406-531-0503).
Can’t attend those actions?
- Wear your AFT t-shirt or button! Show your solidarity every Wednesday (or any day!) during negotiations until we get a contract! And for those who are able we ask that you come together in unity on Wednesdays at 1pm wearing your AFT-2121 t-shirts or buttons to take a photo. Send it us and we will share it on social media, our website, and in our e-news blasts. This will continue lifting up and amplifying the strength we build by standing together.Please send photos to to organizer Athena Waid (awaid@aft2121.org).
- Re-commit to our Union this semester by signing our new membership form — with its loud, proud commitment to “stick with our union” for a full calendar year.
(Picture) Before bargaining began last week some of our AFT 2121 Bargaining Team members and a member were showing off their AFT 2121 t-shirts for the kick-off of Wednesday t-shirt days.
If you need a t-shirt, button, or membership form contact staff member Wendy Leung (wleung@aft2121.org, 415-585-2121).
(Fri. 4/20) AFT 2121 new Executive Director hiring
Four highly qualified finalists have emerged in our Executive Board’s selection process for a new Executive Director. We are scheduling an opportunity for Union members to meet the candidates on Friday, April 20, in MUB 238/248 from 1-5 p.m. Members will have the opportunity to sit down with each candidate for conversation over the course of the afternoon, and to give feedback on their impressions of each candidate to the hiring committee.
We will begin each candidate’s session at the top of the hour, so we ask that members attending only some of the sessions please arrive and depart at the top of the hour so as to minimize disruption.
(Fri. 4/27) Save the date: Union Happy Hour on the anniversary of our first strike
Join us for a happy hour on the anniversary of our very first strike. On April 27, 2016 more than a thousand people came out to help AFT 2121 faculty defend the City College that San Francisco Deserves!
Who: AFT 2121 faculty
When: Friday, April 20 from 4-6pm (rescheduled from Friday 4/13)
Where: Ocean Ale House, 1314 Ocean Ave.
What: Happy Hour, first round’s on us
(Picture) Union leader Alan D’Souza was having fun holding down the picket line at John Adams Campus for our very first strike.
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