Bargaining w/the District for More Competitive Salaries & a Fair Contract Starts Again Next Week

Your AFT 2121 Bargaining Team will be negotiating again with the District next Tuesday, August 8, from 1pm-5pm in MUB 261. Your bargaining team is fighting for more competitive salaries (at or above the Bay 10 median) and a fair contract for all faculty. We urge Chancellor Martin and his administrative team to adopt the same goal since a fair contract for faculty is essential to improving morale and attracting and retaining the educational excellence that has long distinguished our school.

With the accreditation visit this fall, it’s imperative that Chancellor Martin exhibit more effective leadership in these negotiations, so that both parties can make meaningful progress and ensure the stability of our college. As our college’s leader, Chancellor Martin needs to empower his representatives in negotiations and ensure they are prepared, equipped to make decisions, and ready to find win-win solutions for the good of our faculty, our students, and our city. Anything less is frankly a failure of leadership.

See proposals, counter-proposals, and tentative agreements in these negotiations here.

Part-time Employment Letters

The District has started to mail employment letters to part-time faculty. These letters ask us to accept our Fall assignments.
– These letters do not change the terms of employment or any employment rights.
– They do not have any impact on EDD benefits.
– You are not required to sign or return these letters.

Like last year, these letters do not actively misstate the law, but paint an incomplete picture. The letters probably won’t say anything about the contractual rights that protect assignments and employment.

Although the letter instructs us to sign that we “accept” the “contract”, this is not an actual contract and we are not required to sign or return the letters. Your AFT team reached out to HR and has confirmed that there will be no consequences to faculty who do not return the letters.

Data leak Impacting STRS and CalPERS Retirees and Beneficiaries (Not Currently Active Employees)

In June both the CalSTRS and CalPERS systems announced that data from a third-party vendor had leaked, impacting hundreds of thousands of retirees and beneficiaries in both systems. The leak did not impact actively employed members of either system. For more information, click here.