Dear AFT2121 members-

The Restoration bargaining team met with the district again on Monday November 8.  

Your AFT team proposed a CALSTRS retirement incentive which would give members who are in Defined Benefits and retire at the end of the 2021/2022 school year an additional 2 years of service credit. You can read about this incentive here. This proposal would save the district money and support retiring faculty while preserving jobs for less senior faculty and part-timers.

Additionally, after nearly a year of pushing the district on this issue, VC Al Amin has finally conceded that the district can pursue revenue replacement through HEERF for lost sales tax up to 14.6 million for both the last school year (2020-2021) and the current school year (2021-2022). This is critical to stabilizing the District’s revenue projections.

However, because the District team continues to cancel and delay meetings, fails to provide timely information and still cannot answer our budget questions, the District is bargaining in bad faith and AFT2121 has filed an Unfair Labor Practice.

Your presence and support at the bargaining sessions makes a tremendous difference in holding the District accountable. Please continue to show up and let the District know that you are watching.

Our next session will be November 15 from 1:00pm to 3:00pm. Please join us!

In solidarity,

Your AFT2121 bargaining team

Campaign Strategy Workshops Next Week

Hundreds of your colleagues have been meeting over the past month to analyze the conditions of your campaign to protect and revive our college. Your union is holding a series of workshops so that you may build on these insights and help shape our campaign to reinvigorate CCSF.

Participate in a Campaign Strategy Workshop: Friday 11/12 from 11-12pm, or Tuesday 11/16 from 1:30-2:30 (click here for links). At these workshops, we’ll develop campaign recommendations and action items on the basis of your colleagues’ insights. We will also assess the strengths and weaknesses of these recommendations and ready them for consideration at our next Delegate Assembly on Tuesday 11/16 from 3-5pm.

RSVP by replying yes to this email along with the session you will attend. We will follow up with a link. Our college’s budget woes have not gone away, which means we need to keep pushing for a long-term sustainable solution. To win on any new revenue proposal, ALL faculty need to be engaged, and that means YOU. Join the conversation next week and fight for the college San Francisco deserves.

Dear AFT 2121 Members,

On Wednesday and Thursday your bargaining team showed up to meet with the district and move forward with our budget discussion. We are working to restore wages for faculty who gave so much to save jobs and educational opportunities for our students for the 2021/2022 school year. The administration did not show up.

The CCSF administration is bargaining in bad faith. Progress has stalled because the last four sessions were either canceled, rescheduled, or not fully attended by the administration team. The district continues to be completely unprepared for a substantive discussion of the budget. Since August, they have failed to provide us with budget information, answer our questions, or address our concerns. Yesterday, they were unwilling to engage for the fourth session in a row. Vice Chancellor al-Amin’s continued lack of participation and unwillingness to discuss the budget has made it impossible to move forward.

Team member Robin Pugh asked Deputy Chancellor Gonzales if our team could count on a minimum level of knowledge about the budget moving forward. Deputy Chancellor Gonzales pledged that Vice Chancellor al-Amin needs to either show up at bargaining or provide the information we need. We agree.

We call on the district to respect the AFT2121 team and the faculty we represent and to begin to bargain in good faith. Join us on Monday, November 8, from 1:00pm to 3:00pm. Register here, and you will receive a link. If you’ve already registered, use the link that you already received (it still works).

In unity,

Your AFT2121 bargaining team.

Campaign Strategy Workshops Next Week

Hundreds of your colleagues have been meeting over the past month to analyze the conditions of your campaign to protect and revive our college. Next week, your union is holding a series of workshops so that you may build on these insights and help shape our campaign to reinvigorate CCSF.

Participate in a Campaign Strategy Workshop: Tuesday 11/9 from 9-10am, Friday 11/12 from 11-12pm, or Tuesday 11/16 from 1:30-2:30 (click here for links). At these workshops, we’ll develop campaign recommendations and action items on the basis of your colleagues’ insights. We will also assess the strengths and weaknesses of these recommendations and ready them for consideration at our next Delegate Assembly on Tuesday 11/16 from 3-5pm.

RSVP by replying yes to this email along with the session you will attend. We will follow up with a link. Our college’s budget woes have not gone away, which means we need to keep pushing for a long-term sustainable solution. To win on any new revenue proposal, ALL faculty need to be engaged, and that means YOU. Join the conversation next week and fight for the college San Francisco deserves.  

This week’s restoration bargaining rescheduled

Restoration bargaining has been rescheduled from today to two sessions later this week:  

• Wednesday, 11/3, 12:00 – 1:00 pm: Bargaining over COLA and economic issues
• Thursday, 11/4, 12:00 – 1:00 pm: Bargaining over COLA and economic issues

Register in advance for these meetings:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUkcOGvrzguH900u9qgCU9fG1SjWJc7eEUi

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. These meetings are for AFT 2121 members only. Follow this link if you would like to update your membership.

CCSF Budget Lab: a look inside the current year budget

In light of the State COLA revenue increase that was unexpected at the time of concessions, your bargaining team has called the District back to the bargaining table to negotiate over AFT’s proportionate share of the State COLA.

See AFT’s budget graphic below for a look inside the current year’s budget. And join us on Wednesday from 2-3 pm for a CCSF Budget Lab where we will go over the budget graphic and discuss your questions about the budget.

Register in advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwkdeyopj8iHNwEkBIUNGGbBQjeuWlBvJid

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. This meeting is for AFT 2121 members only. Follow this link if you would like to update your membership.

In light of the State COLA revenue increase that was unexpected at the time of concessions, your bargaining team has called the District back to the bargaining table to negotiate over AFT’s proportionate share of the State COLA.

See AFT’s budget graphic below for a look inside the current year’s budget. And join us on Wednesday from 2-3 pm for a CCSF Budget Lab where we will go over the budget graphic and discuss your questions about the budget.

Register in advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwkdeyopj8iHNwEkBIUNGGbBQjeuWlBvJid

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. This meeting is for AFT 2121 members only. Follow this link if you would like to update your membership.