AFT 2121 charges CCSF with unfair labor practice
On May 5, 2021, AFT 2121 filed an unfair labor practice charge with the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) over the District’s failure to bargain in good faith.
We’re engaged in impacts bargaining over layoffs that the District claims are a budgetary necessity. Yet the District has failed to provide the budget information we need, and has provided false information. In addition, VC of Finance John al-Amin has been absent from negotiations, and the District team has been unable to work on budgetary issues without him. We hope that filing this ULP will encourage the District to join us at the table in good faith.
RSVP now for essential updates from your bargaining team this Friday May 7 at 9am.
Save CCSF Action Calendar
Learn out about all of the activities going on around the college to stand up against class cuts and layoffs. The Save our CCSF Action Calendar is color-coded by time commitment — from a quick online action that takes only 5 minutes, to an in-person event lasting a few hours.
To use the calendar, you can:
(1) Hover over any item and click on “Show more” to get more information, then
(2) Click on the link that is visible in the calendar and it will take you to the event registration page.
To add your event to the Action Calendar, please email both Rhea Dellimore (rheadellimore@gmail.com) AND Athena Waid (awaid@aft2121.org) with:
(2) A tiny url with additional information for your event (registration, website, or contact information)
CCSF’s misleading survey on spending the COVID relief money
The City College administration has created a survey about how to spend the COVID relief money allocated to CCSF from the federal government’s HEERF grants (Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund). Between HEERF I, II, and III, the school has received over $54 million since May of 2020, and they are finally requesting input from the CCSF community.*
The Rebuild City College Campaign is distributing the survey far and wide and including recommendations on how to complete the survey, along with a document that fact checks the misleading material attached to the survey.
Go here for the survey form, and please read the information below to help inform your response. The survey, itself, will take less than a minute to complete. Read the fact checking document, here.
What Does Racial Justice in Education Look Like?
CFT organized panel
Tuesday, May 11
5:00 – 6:30pm
Gain a better understanding of the effect that White Supremacy has had on our education system. Additionally, attendees will gain a better understanding of the programs currently proposed (or already underway) to improve the education of our students as we explore a more equitable education system.
The workshop will focus on how the following concerns will be impactful:
- Underfunding of education (the impact on our students)
- Diversifying faculty and staff at our institutions and the impact on students
- Including ethnic studies in educational levels K-14
- Presenting all subjects from an ethnically diverse curriculum
- Closing the opportunity gap for students and the de-escalation of police on campuses
- Restorative justice in education
- Addressing intentional racism within the education system.
PRESENTERS
Cecily Myart-Cruz, UTLA President
Kyna Collins, UTLA Racial Justice Committee
Theresa Montaño, Chicana/Chicano Studies Professor, Cal State Northridge
Carmen Carrasquillo, English Professor, San Diego Community College District/Miramar College
SDI Correction on April Paychecks
SDI is State Disability Insurance. Part-time faculty at CCSF pay into SDI and are eligible for short-term disability leave. Full-time faculty at CCSF are already covered by FMLA and Partially Paid Sick Leave, and do not pay into SDI.
On January 1, 2021, the State of California raised the SDI rates on January 1, 2021, from 1.0% of our wages to 1.20%. Something went wrong, and our college didn’t receive the notice or didn’t get it to the payroll department. Our deduction was still only 1% in January, February, and March. The District has now fixed the error and our rates went up to 1.2%. and the April paycheck showed a higher deduction, to make up for the missing amounts earlier this year.
Petition – Fossil Free California
Tell CalSTRS to Divest! CalPERS and CalSTRS refuse to use divestment from fossil fuels as a tool to address the racial injustices and the social, physical, and financial impacts of climate change. Fossil fuels exposure causes asthma, respiratory disease, and cancer in the US and particularly impacts low income communities and communities of color who are disproportionately located near industry and mining sites. Despite hearing personal anecdotes of disease and loss from youth and elders alike, CalSTRS and CalPERS refuse to acknowledge their complicity in the fossil fuel market. It is time to divest. https://fossilfreeca.org/petition/
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