Tentative Agreement vote results are in!

Dear Faculty,

The results are in: City College faculty have overwhelmingly voted to ratify a tentative agreement (see full agreement here) that will bring us a 14% raise over three years and full payback of the salary cuts we took in 2021-22. (For more information, go to your Contract Toolkit at aft2121.org). We’ll share more details on implementation soon. See initial coverage of your new contract in the Mission Local.

94% of faculty voted to make this agreement your new contract, with 79% of eligible voters participating.

The truth is the second number is the most important. So let’s analyze it further:

• 94% of eligible Full-time faculty members participated in this decision.

• 67% of eligible Part-time faculty members participated in this decision.

The 27% difference in these numbers echoes the makeup of our bargaining team. We had 12 members of the bargaining team, one was part time, and eleven full-time. We can take important lessons from these numbers and from our collective campaign for a fair contract.

Far too many full-time faculty have felt unheard by their union, and too few part-time faculty are participating in their union.

This is a problem for all of us. The most effective way to make further improvements to our departments, such as making sure they’re adequately staffed, and our contract, such as raising full-time salaries above the Bay 10 median, is for all of us to work together as a united front.

City College needs faculty leadership. You see it in your classroom, library, counseling office, and on our campuses–we need to continue working together to ensure our beloved school fulfills its mission: to uplift students, give hope, and change lives.

We look forward to working with our Board to find a new Chancellor who is truly committed to the mission of City College. We are the largest source of higher ed degrees and workforce training in San Francisco. We are essential, and we need to stand together to ensure we’re treated with respect, and that we have the support and resources it takes to best serve our students.