Bargaining update: COVID Impacts
It’s summer, but we have more work to do at the table. COVID isn’t over. This week we’re meeting with the District to renegotiate the impacts provisions we won last year. COVID impacts bargaining is a separate process from bargaining over our next contract. We’ll handle COVID impacts first.
We had an initial discussion with the District on Monday. All members are welcome to attend our next open bargaining sessions:
Tuesday 6/29, 12:30-2:30
Thursday 7/1, 11:30-2:00
Use the same zoom link to register for both meetings:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwrf–grjguHtT14-PMwqaO772IaAMJFmmx
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Chancellor Gonzales and the work to fund our CCSF
At last Thursday’s Board of Trustees’ meeting, the Trustees announced the appointment of Deputy Chancellor Dianna Gonzales to the Interim Chancellor position.
We fought for Anita Martinez to assume this position because she has a decades-long record of fighting to expand public higher education. CCSF faculty live in one of the most expensive cities in the world, and they took a salary cut to save courses and jobs. While we congratulate Dianna Gonzales on her new position, we also need to see her and the rest of her administrative team demonstrate the same commitment to restoring and growing our college. Our city deserves nothing less.
In open bargaining, she demonstrated an ability and willingness to understand and be responsive to the issues that matter to faculty. We urge her to continue this trend and become the Interim Chancellor that our college and our community needs. We have seen 25% of our courses cut in the past two years–we need a Chancellor who will reject downsizing and work with us to aggressively advocate for our college.
San Francisco deserves a community college that meets the needs of its residents. But to do that, CCSF needs local support. Just as the city fills in the gap for our K-12 system, which is also under-funded by the state, we need the Board of Supervisors and Mayor to step up and fund City College.
During her brief tenure as Interim Chancellor previously, Dianna Gonzales advocated with us to establish the Workforce Education Recovery Act. We look forward to working with her again on WERF and this time hope the college will remain active in work needed to make WERF the sustainable revenue source our college needs.
How you can help:
- CONTACT the Mayor & Your Supervisor: Tell Them to Stand Up for City College: https://tinyurl.com/v8fu5um5
- You all did an excellent job making your voices heard at the City Budget Hearing on Friday! If you haven’t already shared your City College story and want us to have it for the campaign please do so at this link: hope.xyz.ccsf
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