Category: Negotiations
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Your federation negotiating team is asking part time instructors to give guidance as they work to craft a response to the latest counter proposal from the administration on multi-year contracts. The request for guidance from members comes in the form of a short survey which was sent out by email during in-service week. (If you…
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At the last scheduled meeting of the full administration and federation bargaining teams, the major focus was on the Multi-Year Contracts for Part time faculty. The most recent Administration Counter-Proposal: 100 contract positions per year for each of the next three years Total 300 contracted positions 3 year term of contract, with expectation they would…
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The Federation’s’ major request in bargaining this year for “part-time” instructors is that the work of these faculty members be normalized: those instructors who have been teaching enough to qualify for health insurance in the past three years should be offered a multi-year contract. Their supervisors have found their service to PCC students to be…
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August Negotiations Update As described in the July update, our bargaining team was facing a proposal to table the top PT faculty bargaining issues — job security. Background: PCC has a large group of PT faculty who have been offered classes year after year, and who provide a critical mass of service to our students.…
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The two members for the negotiations team for “part-time” faculty are Minoo M and Corrinne C. Here is their report: This is an update on what has happened in the conversations we’ve been a part of: meetings with the Federation bargaining team, the joint negotiations with the administration bargaining team, and the subcommittee on part-time…
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We asked and you answered! PCCFFAP executive council officers sent out surveys to our members, and then held an unprecedented number of campus meetings, inviting ideas for what needs to change at PCC for instructors and academic professionals to effectively meet the new challenges we face in providing quality education for all our students. Members…
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This past Wednesday, February 25, 2015 was National Adjunct Walkout Day, a day for contingent faculty across the country to walk out of class to increase awareness of the plight of part-time college instructors across the country. PCCFFAP asked its members not to walk out; instead we and sympathetic PCC employees wore buttons and stickers…
Michele Marden for FFAP Executive VP 