Dear Members,
We have important updates on bargaining and our campaign to share with you all. At the beginning of March, 163 full-time faculty received pink slips, and it quickly became apparent over 500 part-time jobs were also at risk. We’ve been facing a 65% cut to our faculty and our college. At your union Member Meeting in March, we collectively laid out a campaign to first and foremost protect our jobs and our classes. For the past two months, we have all organized, lobbied, and bargained our hearts out. Because of this work, we have Supervisors fighting to pass a funding bill as we speak.
The tough news is that this will not be done in time before the Trustees meet next Monday to decide on layoffs and cuts. However, the pressure we’ve built has positioned our bargaining team power to fight many of the proposed cuts to our college.
Our bargaining team is hoping to have a tentative agreement with the district by the end of this week. Your bargaining team is hopeful that they can stop every single one of those 163 Pink Slipped faculty members and many of the part-time faculty from being laid off. However, this will only be possible if we collectively agree to temporary and progressive concessions on salaries in order to save these jobs.
Please expect an emergency member meeting at 9am on Friday 5/7 this week where your bargaining team will explain any tentative agreement that they have won in this fight to save our jobs, our classes, and our college. RSVP here: http://bit.ly/May7Meeting
Please also sign up now for a 2 hour shift to phone bank your fellow members this Friday-Sunday 10am-6pm to update everyone on our situation and encourage people to vote on any tentative agreement our bargaining team is able to win. RSVP: http://bit.ly/GOTVAFT2121. It’s imperative that you communicate with your fellow members, so that we can stand together and send a strong message to the District before we begin contract negotiations.
We knew this was going to be a tough fight, and we certainly have more work to do. We will continue pushing San Francisco’s Supervisors to pass a WERF expansion (funding bill) in the next few weeks, and we will demand from our Trustees far greater control in how our college is run. Our Trustees clearly have failed, and we have all poured our collective hearts out in the struggle to pick up the pieces and protect our college.
We encourage everyone to take a moment to digest this news, and then join us for phone banking this weekend, and at our City Hall Rally and March this Saturday at 11am (RSVP here). Our March and Rally Saturday will be a chance for us to let our local leaders know that our movement for CCSF continues and that the underfunding of our college has to end.
This fight continues.
TEAM AFT
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