On December 12, 2012, negotiations between AFT and the District broke down over the Union’s proposal to a joint District/AFT effort to address the potential budget shortfall in the current year and extend the contract for 6 months. District representatives…

Citing AACJC’s “show cause” dictum, the District Monday stuck to its demands for faculty concessions totaling an immediate wage reduction of 4.71% or equivalent contract takebacks as outlined in our last Update.

On Monday afternoon, Nov. 19, AFT 2121 and the District sat down to their first bargaining session following last week’s Board of Trustees meeting. 

Today’s negotiations session continued to show no softening in the District’s negotiating position: despite the fact that the “worst-case scenario” (Props A and 30 failing) has not come to pass—thanks to the efforts of labor, students, and community—the District has not pulled…

The AFT 2121 Negotiations Team had two bargaining sessions with the District last week, one prior to the election, on Monday, and the second on Wednesday, when the positive outcome of the elections were clear. Unfortunately, despite the significant change…

In a grueling negotiations session this afternoon, the District presented the AFT 2121 negotiations team with a comprehensive “Worst-case Budget Scenario” in the event that Proposition 30 and Proposition A fail. This proposal—a veritable laundry list of givebacks the District…