Dear AFT 2121 Members,
On Wednesday and Thursday your bargaining team showed up to meet with the district and move forward with our budget discussion. We are working to restore wages for faculty who gave so much to save jobs and educational opportunities for our students for the 2021/2022 school year. The administration did not show up.
The CCSF administration is bargaining in bad faith. Progress has stalled because the last four sessions were either canceled, rescheduled, or not fully attended by the administration team. The district continues to be completely unprepared for a substantive discussion of the budget. Since August, they have failed to provide us with budget information, answer our questions, or address our concerns. Yesterday, they were unwilling to engage for the fourth session in a row. Vice Chancellor al-Amin’s continued lack of participation and unwillingness to discuss the budget has made it impossible to move forward.
Team member Robin Pugh asked Deputy Chancellor Gonzales if our team could count on a minimum level of knowledge about the budget moving forward. Deputy Chancellor Gonzales pledged that Vice Chancellor al-Amin needs to either show up at bargaining or provide the information we need. We agree.
We call on the district to respect the AFT2121 team and the faculty we represent and to begin to bargain in good faith. Join us on Monday, November 8, from 1:00pm to 3:00pm. Register here, and you will receive a link. If you’ve already registered, use the link that you already received (it still works).
In unity,
Your AFT2121 bargaining team.
Campaign Strategy Workshops Next Week
Hundreds of your colleagues have been meeting over the past month to analyze the conditions of your campaign to protect and revive our college. Next week, your union is holding a series of workshops so that you may build on these insights and help shape our campaign to reinvigorate CCSF.
Participate in a Campaign Strategy Workshop: Tuesday 11/9 from 9-10am, Friday 11/12 from 11-12pm, or Tuesday 11/16 from 1:30-2:30 (click here for links). At these workshops, we’ll develop campaign recommendations and action items on the basis of your colleagues’ insights. We will also assess the strengths and weaknesses of these recommendations and ready them for consideration at our next Delegate Assembly on Tuesday 11/16 from 3-5pm.
RSVP by replying yes to this email along with the session you will attend. We will follow up with a link. Our college’s budget woes have not gone away, which means we need to keep pushing for a long-term sustainable solution. To win on any new revenue proposal, ALL faculty need to be engaged, and that means YOU. Join the conversation next week and fight for the college San Francisco deserves.
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