2023 Tentative Agreement Toolkit

• FAQ on 2023 TA
• Calendar for ratification 
• Calculate your potential new salary: Full Time & Part Time 
• Link to full agreement here
• Share Your Question or Clarification Here

Dear Faculty,

We’ve fielded a lot of initial questions (and energy) about the news of a Tentative Agreement. Your team has put together a “TA Toolkit” with what we hope you’ll need to make this big decision. It’s been years since you’ve had a contract–this is a big moment! Please see the links below, and also on our website at aft2121.org

Calculate your potential new salary and retro pay with the calculators in the FAQ

Upcoming Tentative Agreement Events

There is a special faculty union meeting (Delegate Assembly) on December 5th from 3-5pm. After attendees discuss the TA, your elected precinct reps and delegates will vote on whether to recommend ratification to the membership.

Pending Delegate Assembly approval, online voting on the agreement will launch on Friday, December 8th and close on Wednesday, December 13th.

To ensure everybody understands the agreement, we will then hold online informational sessions for members Wednesday through Friday of next week (December 6–8th). RSVP for all sessions here & note the final session overlaps with the AFT 2121 Holiday Party on Ocean Campus.  

• Wednesday: 10-11am on Zoom

• Wednesday: 1-2pm on Zoom

• Thursday: 9-10am on Zoom

• Friday: Drop in question and answer from 12-5PM in the Ocean Campus Cafeteria. This will overlap with the AFT 2121 Holiday Party–come for food, beverage, and music from 3:30-7:30pm in the Cafeteria.

Breaking news!

As a result of our hard work as a community—many months of organizing, electing new trustees, expanding and strengthening your community, many conversations with colleagues, the rally on October 26, and your strike card organizing–your Bargaining Team was able to reach a Tentative Agreement on a new contract a 1a.m. this morning. It includes a 14% raise over three years (9% this year, 3% next, 2% in final year 25-26), with the full restoration of salary cuts from 2021. (See the TA here.)

To reach this agreement, you had to overcome an administrative bargaining team that had been unwilling to truly negotiate, a Chancellor who unilaterally transferred some $15M from the budget you were negotiating over, and the delivery of a severance petition to divide your faculty union at a critical moment in negotiations. All of this made your struggle for a fair contract more difficult, but last night, your bargaining team was finally able to break through.

We want to be clear: This agreement is far from everything faculty deserve, particularly after so many sacrifices and so much disrespect. However, this agreement is progress and the best deal we feel we can accomplish at this moment. Your bargaining team unanimously endorses this TA.

Here’s a quick overview of the TA, with more details and explanation to come:

• A three-year contract with compounded raises of 14.5%

  • 9% for 23-24, 3% in 24-25, and 2% in 25-26

  • Full restoration of salary cuts from 2021 (a lump sum payment)

  • Retroactive pay back to July 1st of this year to reflect the 9% increase (a lump sum back payment)

• Coaches paid for previously uncompensated off-season coaching work and adjustments in Nurse Practitioner pay

• Adjustments regarding online instruction and training

• Further enforcement for rehiring laid off full-time faculty

What’s next?

• Members will vote whether or not to ratify this deal.

  • Your union will soon have more details and information about the TA and its implications (including calculators to estimate your 2021 restoration, retroactive pay, and what your pay increases would be)

  • We’ll share a schedule for the ratification vote and informational meetings to discuss and explain the new contract

  • Stay tuned!

It is a critical moment to take action for a fair contract and a more competitive salary.

AFT confirmed that Thursday your bargaining team will meet with the District for a final session of pre-impasse mediation. We urge the Board of Trustees and the Administration to offer faculty proposals that respect our commitment and sacrifices, and that recognize our right to be treated at least as well as other employee groups. For the good of our programs and community, we urge the District to make faculty salaries competitive and settle a fair contract. AFT is ready to make that deal, and you can support this process by signing your strike commitment card right now.

Now is the moment to sign and show the Board and the Chancellor that faculty stand united for competitive salaries and a fair contract: https://bit.ly/WillingToStrike4CCSF

Strike Vote Kick Off & Holiday Party

Date: Friday, December 8, 2023
Time: Strike Vote from 12-7:30pm & Holiday Party from 3:30-7:30pm
Location: Cafeteria at Ocean Campus
Buffet and beverages from 3:30 to 7:30pm
Music by Danny Halford

AFT’s Salary Proposal is What CCSF Needs to Attract and Retain Full-Time Faculty

Full-time faculty salaries at CCSF were already substantially below most of our peer schools last year, and the situation has only gotten worse this year. This disparity impacts full and part-time faculty, students, and our entire college community.

If CCSF wants to retain its reputation for academic excellence, if it wants to be able to staff departments like Chemistry, Nursing, and Construction Management, then it is going to have to pay faculty competitively. This is an investment in our students and our mission, and it is high time the Board of Trustees take responsibility for addressing this problem.

To take one fairly typical example, the median full-time faculty member was in step 17 and column F+30 last year. If you were in this step and column, your salary last year would have been 7th in the Bay 10. This year, your counterparts at Contra Costa and Foothill-de Anza (along with five other Bay 10 districts) have received raises. Now, you’re at step 18 but still making ninth in the Bay 10, ahead of only Peralta (and Peralta may yet receive a raise this year). Your highest-paid counterparts are now at West Valley-Mission, where you’d be making 32% more. Most full-time faculty at City College are in this situation—salaries about 20% lower than our counterparts at peer colleges.

The core reason for these discrepancies is that CCSF’s full-time faculty salaries were competitive in the last year of our last contract—2020-2021. But we haven’t seen raises since then, while our counterparts at other colleges have. AFT’s salary proposal would rectify this, by giving a 5.07% raise (and full back pay to restore concessions) retroactive to 21-22, a 6.56% raise retroactive to 22-23, and a 5.74% raise this year—for a total of an 18.4% raise (with another 4% next year). This would mean under AFT’s proposal, your salary last year would actually be retroactively set very slightly above the Bay 10 median. And your salary this year would be 99% of the Bay 10 median.

Making full-time faculty salaries competitive would be good for our whole college: part-time faculty, students, and programs all would benefit. However, the administration has proposed no change at all to your 22-23 salary, and only a 5% increase in your 23-24 salary—leaving you far below the median of other nine Bay 10 schools, and with your salary still ranked 7th in the Bay 10.

The Board of Trustees have a special meeting tonight at 6pm. SF Voters demanded change, and that means the Board needs to step up to ensure CCSF’s administration invests in the core of our mission and settles a fair contract with faculty.

Faculty, stay tuned for the results of this meeting, and sign your strike card today to support the fight for a competitive salary and fair contract. All faculty can sign (members, non-members, Department Chairs, etc.): https://bit.ly/WillingToStrike4CCSF