Dear CCSF Community,
On Wednesday, hundreds of CCSF students, staff, faculty, and allies came together for a day of action. At CCSF Chinatown-North Beach campus, community members highlighted the devastating impact that CCSF’s proposed layoffs and cuts would have on CCSF ESL and the San Francisco immigrant community (see coverage here). Chancellor David Martin & Vice Chancellor John al-Amin’s downsizing plan would lay off 47 English as Second Language faculty members and reduce CCSF course offerings in ESL next fall by 37%.
On Wednesday, CCSF’s faculty union AFT 2121 invited Chancellor Martin & V.C. al-Amin to have an open and robust discussion about the budget they’ve been using to justify their plan to eliminate hundreds of fully enrolled courses at City College. Chancellor Martin & V.C. al-Amin refused to show up.
We would like to thank Dr. Anoshua Chaudhuri, Chair of SFSU’s Department of Economics, for agreeing to act as a neutral moderator of the discussion and for moderating AFT 2121’s presentation of its own budget analysis. You can see AFT 2121’s Alternative Budget for CCSF here and a full recording of our Budget Forum here, where our budget team clearly explains why there is no budgetary justification for layoffs and cuts this year.
Chancellor Martin & V.C. al-Amin are refusing to engage in transparent and consistent dialogue around the budget because this would force them to show their work and justify why education is being sacrificed without a budgetary need. CCSF’s Trustees need to step up and start asking some hard questions. The ACCJC is a discredited institution–the last time it threatened CCSF, AFT 2121 sued and won.
It is high time CCSF’s Trustees start fighting for the fully funded community college San Franciscans need and deserve.
Take action:
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Sign & share a Petition to the Trustees calling on them to reject layoffs & cuts before May 15: https://bit.ly/CCSFCommunity
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RSVP now to be part of the ‘CCSF is the Heartbeat of San Francisco’ contingent at SF Labor Council’s May Day March down Market St Sunday, May 1st: https://bit.ly/MayDayCCSF
In solidarity,
AFT 2121
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