Check Your June Check

If you had a summer assignment, remember to check your June check. We’ve seen a few problems with missing pay. While it’s likely the problems are just a few isolated cases, don’t wait to find out!

• June pay should be at the Spring 2021 pay rates. 
• CCSF paychecks can be hard to interpret. You can ask your precinct rep for help, or see AFT’s check-your-check page.
  • If you spot a problem, tell your chair immediately. If your chair is gone for the summer, tell your dean. Also report on this form, which reports automatically to both AFT 2121 and to the CCSF payroll department.

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Bargaining Update: COVID Impacts & Class Cancellations

In a week of bargaining, we’ve made some progress. We’ve won agreements to extend last year’s COVID leaves for Fall 2021, and flexibility on sabbaticals. (More detail about those agreements coming soon.) We still have a lot of work to do, especially regarding class size and class cancellations.

AFT proposed maintaining a 15-student minimum and letting classes run for two weeks in credit and four weeks in noncredit before cancellation, as we did this past year. We’re still facing the increased workload and chaos of remote work. We’re still dealing with COVID risk. Students still have trouble registering and finding classes. We can’t simply pretend COVID is over. 

Administration, on the other hand, wants to bring the minimum back up to 20, and only allow two weeks in both credit and noncredit . Given how hard we’ve worked and how much we’ve sacrificed to keep classes open, it’s infuriating that they want the power to make even more cuts. 

Come to open bargaining next week to support your bargaining team and show the administration that faculty are united!

Open bargaining:
    Tuesday 7/6, 12:00
    Register in advance for this meeting

New Employee Records System

CCSF has just launched a new platform to access employee records, called PeopleAdmin. Confusingly, the login page looks exactly like the myCCSF login page. But don’t panic, myCCSF and Web4 and all the rest are still there.
• This link opens the familiar myCCSF page, where you can access Web4, Curricunet, etc.
• This link, which came in our ccsf.edu email, will open the new system. Log in with your RAM ID. Once you log in, click the three blue dots in the upper left corner to get to “Employee Records”

For now, it looks like we’ll only need to use it if we want to make a change in our records such as a name change, or to file a form such as an intent to retire. However, CCSF administration made this change with no warning, and as far as we know, no input. We do not know how they intend to use this system or what else they will add to it.

San Francisco and COVID Vaccines

Many of us received notice that San Francisco City employees are required to prove COVID vaccination. AFT 2121 has received many questions about this. CCSF faculty are not City employees, so the requirement does not apply to us. City College currently has no plans to require vaccination.

Anyone wanting vaccination can use the City’s vaccination site to make an appointment. It lists ongoing vaccination sites and short-term vaccination events in San Francisco.

At last Thursday’s board of trustees meeting, John al-Amin presented a document that he called a tentative budget for the coming year. And the board approved it.

But it wasn’t a real budget document. In reality, the college has entered into a legally binding agreement with AFT 2121 to provide 520 instructional FTEF for Fall and Spring. But the document al-Amin brought to the board doesn’t provide any money for part-time faculty. That would indicate massive cuts. Cuts at that level would be a violation of our agreement and will not be permitted. Nothing that John al-Amin writes can change that.

This looks like an attempt to drive a wedge between faculty and our classified colleagues. The implication is that upcoming SEIU negotiations would impact faculty jobs. This is false. Faculty jobs are protected under AFT 2121’s agreement to the level of 520 FTEF.

The leadership of our two unions, AFT and SEIU, have been talking about this, and we reject administration’s attempt to divide us. It’s not right. 

We are a community college, and we need administrators like John al-Amin to start acting like it. We are here to serve our students and our city, so let’s stop acting irresponsibly and start talking about how we can restore and grow our college. 

For more about this so-called budget, see our latest video. https://youtu.be/cBO5Q-iTwVk

In Solidarity,

Malaika Finkelstein

AFT 2121 President