Category: Negotiations
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The first 3-year contracts were awarded last spring, and the Federation held 8 meetings — 2 on each campus — to gather thoughts and responses on the process from members who either applied or decided not to apply. Representatives from human resources attended at least one meeting on each campus, to listen to what was presented.…
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107 “part-time” faculty received the first group of 3-Year Contracts (3YCs). A list of recipients was sent out via MyPCC email by Federation president, Frank Goulard. These are renewable 3-year contracts, September 2016 – August 2019. The average length of PCC teaching experience was 11.2 years. There will be two additional groups of 100…
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During finals week of Winter Quarter 2016, your federation held Q&A sessions at all four PCC campuses to talk about Multi-Year Contracts (MYCs). Below are the questions that came up repeatedly–and some answers. We have posted them here to support PT faculty in considering this new option for job security. But we are also available…
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Today the American association of Colleges and Universities unveiled a new report compiling discoveries by the institutions who have succeeded with the Achieving the Dream initiative. Not surprisingly, they note that high performing institutions have faculty and staff who understand and are engaged with the component programs of the initiative. Tucked into the report as an…
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A hugely important step has just been taken by the EAC — an advisory committee made up of faculty, APs, and administrators from around the college. This is the main avenue for faculty members to participate in the governance process. By a large margin, the members of the EAC voted on 12/9 to adopt the…
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from Frank Goulard: Colleagues, I am writing to share results of the vote on the PCC Faculty/AP 2015-2019 contract (collective bargaining agreement). They are as follows: 390 (80.4%) yes (to ratify the contract) 95 (19.6%) no (not to ratify the contract) The next step is for the PCC board to vote to ratify the contract at…
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from our negotiating team: Ballots to vote on the Tentative Agreement were mailed on October 28 to your home addresses. Please read the following changes, consider, discuss, and ask questions of me (or the executive council) if you have any. Ballots must be returned with either a yes or no vote by November 12 to…
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Posted on Behalf of Frank Goulard: Faculty and Academic Professional colleagues, We have a tentative agreement for a four-year contract (2015-2019) with a wages & benefits reopener in 2017! This is contingent on our negotiations team wrapping up with the administration team. We were able to conclude with quite a few items that will be…
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Your negotiations team met with PCC administration on Tuesday, October 13. After we had expressed strong concerns about the last offer, we were hopeful. Yesterday the administration showed us they had the money to settle the contract—accepting our fair proposal—right then and there. They chose not to. Administration revealed new data indicating that the college’s…
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from Ed Degrauw and the negotiations team In the last nine months, your negotiations team has made some significant changes to help our members. You’ve heard about those in previous updates. But as we moved into discussing the economic package in the last few weeks, we have hit a very serious roadblock. Last week, the…
Michele Marden for FFAP Executive VP 