Bargaining News for the Week

Reminder–there is no open bargaining today, Monday 11/6. Instead and thanks to pressure from our Rally for a Fair Contract, your Bargaining Team and the District Bargaining team–including up to three Trustees and the Chancellor–will be spending the day in voluntary, pre-impasse mediation.

For the good of our college and our families, salaries are AFT’s top priority in bargaining. Full-time salaries at City College are not competitive and are currently near the bottom of the Bay 10 community colleges–this puts the reputation of our college at risk and makes properly staffing departments, particularly in health care, extremely difficult.

The District’s first economic proposal was a 9% raise over three years and a reimbursement to faculty of only 38% of our concessions from 2021/2022. Over the last 6 months, the District’s position has remained essentially unchanged, with its latest proposal being a 9% raise over two years and a reimbursement to faculty of only 38% of our 2021/2022 concessions. The District’s unwillingness to make reasonable compromises on economic matters represents a refusal to bargain in good faith.

With key decision-makers in the room, we are hopeful our two mediation sessions scheduled for 11/6 and 11/13 will lead to significant movement at the bargaining table. AFT’s latest salary proposal is:

• 100% pay back of the 2021/2022 salary concessions. Despite the District’s dismal budget projections in bargaining, CCSF ended the year with a surplus.

• Retroactive raise of 5.07% for the 2021/2022 fiscal year

• Retroactive raise of 6.56% for the 2022/2023 fiscal year

• Raise of 5.74% for the 2022/2023 fiscal year

• Raise of 4% for the 2023/2024 fiscal year

• Raise of 1% for the 2024/2025 fiscal year