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Posted on November 15, 2022 by AFT 2121

Delegate Assembly: 11/22, 3-5 PM (No COPE)

All AFT 2121 members are invited to participate in your Delegate Assembly (DA) meeting on Tuesday, November 22, 3-5pm. There is no COPE meeting this time.

DA Agenda

To attend, follow this link from your computer or smartphone OR call 1-669-900-6833 then follow the prompts to enter the meeting ID #810 1671 8065 and password: 783119.

Freezing rooms, mold, indoor rain, and bad air

If the chancellor’s office was 54°, the District would take quick action to fix it. If the VC’s office smelled of mold, the District would move them to new rooms. Yet workers and students face these conditions regularly. Some examples:

https://sites.google.com/aft2121.org/facilities-blog/home

How is your worksite?

— Talk to your precinct rep

— File a report with schooldude

— Send the most egregious examples to Malaika at: mfinkels@aft2121.org

COVID Safety Survey results

There’s a buzz of conversation coming out of PGC around the possibility of the college changing COVID safety rules for Spring 2023. To the best of our knowledge, the District has entirely failed to take broad Input.

AFT 2121 surveyed faculty so that our voices can be heard in the conversation. 147 Faculty participated. Representation was strongest in ESL and Counseling. Overall, participants favored keeping COVID safety rules for Spring 2023.

Comments reveal a wide range of opinion and persuasive arguments on all sides. We don’t know of any other forum where such a wide range of faculty voices can be heard on these issues. Check out the detailed results here. You’ll find a summary on the first two pages, and then comments and more detailed breakdown below.

Support striking academic workers in the University of California!

Tens of thousands of academic workers are on strike now across the University of California—graduate student teachers, researchers, tutors, and postdocs. They’re striking for a fair contract including livable wages, and to protest a series of unfair labor practices that sound eerily reminiscent of what AFT-2121’s own bargaining team has experienced, including consistent bad-faith bargaining and unilateral changes to working conditions.

They need your help! A few concrete actions:

The UC regents will be meeting at the Mission Bay campus this Wednesday morning. They will take public comment! Instructions for public comment are here, and there will be a rally at noon Wednesday at Genentech Hall (600 16th St).
At their community solidarity website, you can donate to their strike fund, join a picket line, and sign the California Labor Federation’s petition to the UC president.