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Open bargaining has been great for faculty. Thanks to all the faculty who attended! Your presence and your powerful presentations made a difference.
We’re thrilled to bring you the news from our most recent session. We won extensions of some of our Fall agreements into Spring, keeping classes open and preventing faculty from being thrown off medical insurance in the middle of a pandemic.
Class size and cuts in Spring 2021:
- Minimum class size will be 15 students for both credit and noncredit.
- Classes with at least 10 students enrolled by the first day of class will have 2 weeks to fill to 15 for credit, and 4 weeks to fill to 15 for noncredit.
Medical benefits – Faculty working part-time retain benefits for Spring and Summer 2021 if any of the following are true:
- You have at least a 50% load in Spring 2021 (the normal requirement)
- You have at least a 50% load for Spring as of January 1, but that load is subsequently reduced. The normal requirement that you must keep at least 20% is eliminated.
- You had benefits AND you had an assignment in Fall 2020. That means if you had both an assignment and benefits in Fall 2020, you retain benefits with or without a Spring 2021 assignment.
Leaves – Paid and unpaid leave opportunities for anyone who cannot complete assignments because of COVID-related family, household, or caretaking responsibilities:
- District may provide alternative assignment.
- Faculty may use sick leave for COVID-related caretaking.
- FT faculty can use banked load, or give up an assignment and carry a load balance of up to 6 units.
- PT faculty can give up an assignment without sacrificing reemployment rights, modal load, seniority, or benefits.
- All faculty can take unpaid leave. It does not count as a break in service.
For more details, see our impacts bargaining page. We have more work to do. When we resume bargaining in January, come and support your team!
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