Jim Mahler released his tentative Contract Bargaining Agreement (CBA) for the San Diego Community College District (SDCCD), and it’s an overall win for adjuncts! No more Chairs and Deans trying to scare us out of applying for job security (PoA); automatic Our PoA wait-time goes down from 8 semesters back to 6 The ability to […]
SDCCD Salary Schedule Increases for 2019
AFT Guild President Jim Mahler today sent out the announcement below regarding economic issues for next year along with the attached salary schedules. Of note is that Adjunct Faculty will receive 0.84% increases and Contract Faculty will receive 0.50% increases. That’s right, folks, 4/5’s of a percent for Adjuncts and 1/2 of a percent for Contract. […]
Equal Protection for Adjuncts under the Contract
I just posted this to the AFT Guild Google Group, addressed to Ian Duckles with the request that he share this with the other members of the Negotiating Committee. Equal Protection for Adjuncts under the Contract Our legal system is built on one basic concept: Equal Protection under the law. I ask the Negotiating Committee […]
Open Letter to SDCCD Faculty
[SDAFA response to discussion on the SDCCD district email list] Fellow faculty members, We’ve had quite a beginning to this conversation about our next contract. Unfortunately, some have suggested that adjuncts don’t have enough “skin in the game” and a divisive tone has emerged that pits adjuncts against full-time faculty. There is a […]
Add to clause 4.4.9: The AFT representative must be from a different school
Unions have had a long tradition of standing up for their members. One of the first things I learned about unions in a history class was that if a union member had to meet with their boss, their Shop Steward, as their union representative, would go with the union member to the meeting to stand […]
Preliminary Results of the Survey of Part-Time Faculty Bargaining Issues for SDCCD 2018
The preliminary results of the survey are in the following PDF file: SDAFA PT Contract Survey 6 4 2018