When will I receive my retroactive raise & restoration for 21-22?
Payroll is working on implementing your retroactive payment for your new (9% higher) salary for this fiscal year. AFT 2121 is in constant touch with payroll to ensure this payment occurs as quickly as possible, and we hope that payroll is able to process the first round of retroactive payments in January.
The pay out for your salary cut in 2021-2 will take longer than these first retroactive payments. AFT 2121 is working with payroll on this matter and expects the payments to go out as direct deposits or checks in the spring.
Details & Further Takeaways on Ratification Vote
300 out of 318 FT eligible members voted
286 out of 428 PT eligible members voted
More FT faculty voted in the ratification of our tentative agreement, despite there having been more eligible PT faculty voters. Department chairs who are members are not eligible to vote on TAs. In AFT leadership elections, all members, including chairs, are permitted to vote.
Why were there more eligible part-timers?
The proportion of part-timers has increased at City College because the administration has made a deliberate effort to reduce the number of full-time faculty. This leads to the over-work of full-time faculty, erodes the working conditions of our profession for all, and undermines the service we can provide students. Adjunctification is bad for all faculty and bad for students.
The part-time payscale at CCSF is set at 86% of the full-time scale. This percentage is called pro-rata, and it is higher at CCSF than at many other colleges. For years at City College, the pro-rata pay of part-time faculty acted as a bulwark against efforts to reduce the proportion of full-time faculty at CCSF by de-incentivizing the college from replacing full-time faculty with part-timers. The pro-rata payscale is good for full-time faculty job security. This helps explain why City College had been an exception in a higher ed landscape increasingly dominated by adjunct faculty. That is now changing.
The administration’s ongoing refusal to replace FT positions when faculty leave or retire, and the recent, unprecedented layoff of tenured and tenure-track faculty has brought adjunctification to City College. Chancellor David Martin has made it very clear that a major goal of his has been to reduce the proportion of full-time faculty at our school, that is, to undermine tenure and promote the adjunctification of our community.
Who benefits from undermining FT faculty?
The savings higher education institutions have garnered through increasing the proportion of PT faculty has not benefited those FT faculty left. Rather, it has benefited administrators–the number and pay of administrators has skyrocketed since the 1970s, while the salaries and working conditions of faculty have deteriorated. Faculty have been part of America’s disappearing middle class.
For more on this, see a recent report from the American Institute for Economic Research: “In 1970, tenured and tenure-track professors made up 78 percent of all teaching faculty. Now that percentage has reversed, with 73 percent of faculty positions being ‘adjunct’ or ‘contingent,’ and just one professor in five actually tenured.”
What can we do about it?
The solution is to use our power in numbers, as full-time and part-time faculty working together, to advocate strategically and persuasively for our programs, students, working conditions, and salaries. Eradicating the pro-rata payscale at City College and paying part-time faculty less will not benefit full-time faculty or students. It will further encourage the erosion of full-time faculty working conditions and the assault on tenure – as we experienced with the full-timer layoffs in 2022 – that have undermined higher education throughout the country.
January Medical Benefits
In January, many part-timers don’t know what our Spring semester workload will be. So CCSF uses our Fall load to determine benefits eligibility. But we still have to pay the January premiums.
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If you have medical insurance through CCSF in Fall semester, eligibility continues through January 31, whether or not you have a Spring assignment.
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If you have a Spring assignment, or if you are in Kaiser Member Only and therefore have no premium to pay, you don’t have to do anything.
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If you do not have a Spring assignment, you won’t have a paycheck, so HR cannot deduct your premium. If you are eligible for benefits, you can arrange to pay the January premium. The deadline to pay is December 24th.
If you are working part-time and you have to make a payment, you should already have received a letter from HR with instructions. But we’ve heard that some faculty have not received their letters. If you have not received it, tell HR immediately by emailing benefits@ccsf.edu. Also copy mfinkels@aft2121.org so our union can see the scale of the problem.
More details about January medical benefits here.
Unemployment
Part-time faculty are eligible for unemployment benefits over winter break. Apply on or immediately after your last day of work. If you have a full-term assignment, your last day is officially 12/19, even if your specific schedule doesn’t match that.
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