Last Day to Submit Your Bargaining Survey | Facilities Issues & the Chancellor’s Missing Leadership

Posted on March 10, 2023 by AFT 2121

Submit your Bargaining Survey Today!

Share your priorities, ensure they’re taken into account in negotiations for your new contract, & support your bargaining team in its fight for your issues: https://bit.ly/BargainSurvey

This is about information and power. 1) Your bargaining team wants to hear your top concerns and 2) it needs to be able to say that its proposals reflect majority faculty opinion, but to say that all faculty need to submit surveys today!

Chairs, non-members, and members are encouraged to fill out the survey today. It takes a few minutes to do your survey here–for the ranking questions you do need to make sure you only select up to 5 issues and rank them in prioritization from 1 to 5. Otherwise, the form will not accept your submission.

‘Just Too Cold to Learn’–When Will Chancellor Martin Exercise the Leadership our Students Deserve?

From Mission Campus, to John Adams, to Ocean Campus, students and employees throughout the City College system are sitting in classrooms for hours with temperatures dipping into the low 40s. This is wrong, and, while we understand that fixing boiler systems will take time, we are deeply disappointed by Chancellor Martin’s lack of leadership on this issue. For the sake of our students and community, we again call on Chancellor Martin to:

Take Urgent Action: Take seriously the immediate health and learning hazard posed by low temperatures, mold, and other major facilities issues. Our community deserves real leadership and that means Chancellor Martin needs to treat this issue with the urgency and clarity it deserves.
Provide Clear Communication & Take Responsibility: Being a leader means taking responsibility for your organization and clearly communicating to your constituents what you’re doing to address serious issues. It means showing you care. AFT understands that Chancellor Martin cannot have boiler systems fixed overnight, but clear communication is something the Chancellor can and should provide. Students & employees deserve to know the plans and timelines for repairs as well as what the District will do in the short-term to provide relief. This is a matter of leadership and respect. Our students deserve nothing less.

Faculty and students have been speaking out, and the press and our own trustees are sitting up and taking notice:

Monday 3/13, 4:00: Emergency BOT meeting at the Mission Campus. We do not yet know if there will also be Zoom access to this meeting. Trustee Alan Wong writes that the agenda will include boiler replacements and “adequate facilities department staffing.” The full agenda has not been posted as of this writing; it will appear on board docs.
NBC Bay Area March 9 Segment: City College of San Francisco Students, Faculty Dealing With Cold Classrooms
Mission Local March 8 Story: City College students spend year without heat, jump from ‘one icebox to another
The Guardsman Feb 20 Story: City College Struggles with Inadequate Heating, Leaving Faculty and Students in the Cold