READ THIS if you’re assigned in person
The COVID crisis continues. As of this writing, CCSF plans to continue in-person classes and services as scheduled. But things could change quickly.
On Monday, David Martin discussed this with AFT, SEIU, DCC, and both Senates. He told us that he is open to individual faculty making the choice to work remotely. Some classes have already chosen to shift to remote for the first two weeks.
➜ If you want to shift your assignment from in-person to remote, temporarily or longer-term, talk to your chair ASAP.
David also told us that CCSF will not have building monitors assigned until at least February. In the meantime, there is no plan to ensure that people on campus are vaccinated. Without monitors in place, non-credit and student services will never be fully vaccinated environments. Credit instruction might be — assuming no one ever tries to add a class, brings their kid, comes to office hours, wanders into the wrong room by accident, or simply walks into the building to use the bathroom.
Faculty are not required to check the vaccination status of students or let students into the building. It is not appropriate for us to disrupt our classes, or to ask students for medical information. The District signed an agreement saying they would pay workers to do that. To state the obvious, a boss should not expect employees to work for free. If you are forced to serve as building monitor without pay, or to interrupt your work for this, tell your precinct rep.
In addition, the District has laid off custodians. It is not clear which buildings will have enough staff for even normal cleaning, let alone the high cleaning standards needed for COVID safety.
In some places, in-person classes and services will be safe and well-planned. In other places there may be serious problems. If you work in person, please think about how to keep yourself, your students, and your colleagues safe.
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