Where we are: Changes to the state budget and its potential impacts on the CCSF budget have delayed our conversations with the District over their proposed wage concessions. Tuesday night, the District sent a new, adjacent proposal to all labor groups.

In the meantime, a lot of misinformation about our process and the status of negotiations has been circulated. We hope this message will help to clarify.

1. New Proposal
   
   Tuesday evening the District sent a letter to all the CCSF labor groups requesting that we agree to suspend 20/21 wage increases (step/column, raise, and new salary tables) for 60 days to allow the District time to do the following:
   
   (1) close the books for the 19/20 fiscal year,
   (2) develop a more sound tentative budget for the 20/21 fiscal year, and
   (3) continue potential negotiations around their June 1 wage concessions proposal.
   
   At the end of 60 days, if no concessions have been agreed upon, the 20/21 step and column, raise and new salary tables will go into effect and faculty will be paid retroactively for the 60 days of suspended increases.
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2. Original Wage Concession Proposal
   
   They have not withdrawn their June 1, 2020 concessions proposal, although the state budget landscape has changed. We are waiting for the District’s next set of budget projections before continuing any dialogue about this proposal. They may also change the concessions they are asking for.
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3. How the Proposals Intersect
   
   Again, these are adjacent proposals. The District is seeking agreement from labor groups on both a 60 day delay (new proposal) and wage concessions (original proposal).
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4. AFT’s Process for Agreements that Affect Wages
   
   The union’s Executive Board voted on May 6 that any tentative agreements resulting from these negotiations will be voted on and decided by our entire union membership. No smaller group will be making decisions for our membership on wage concessions.

AFT has not responded to either of these proposals.

We are deeply troubled that our District would seek to borrow money from our faculty and other employees. The District must be held accountable for their inability to engage in sound budgeting practices; faculty and students have already borne the burden of this ongoing failure with years upon years of class cuts and program shrinkage.

Our campus community (students, faculty, staff, and San Franciscans) are hard at work on initiatives to bring much needed financial relief to our college. And while Administration has recently joined these efforts, they have ignored and even undermined similar efforts along the way. Minimally, as we continue this hard work of revenue generation, we expect our administration to exhaust all available options for relief that do not touch our classrooms or the employees who serve our students.

While we all try to cope with the massive changes and hardships brought on by this pandemic, our union is fighting these cuts and advocating for our college. We’re asking CCSF Administration to do their job and help us get through this crisis instead of asking us to fix it for them!

What’s next: What comes next is contingent upon getting the budget we need from the district so please stay tuned for next action steps soon.