Bargaining session report – May 17, 2011
We left this session feeling discouraged. Management has become very clear that they think all our proposals diminish management rights; they don’t but management doesn’t want to believe they don’t. Our proposals are about maintaining the rights we currently have in the 2007-2010 contract. We do not believe that part-time faculty who have proven their dedication to CCC should have to put up with the same degree of job and pay uncertainty as new instructors do (and as we did when we were new).
The bottom line in all this is that we may end up going to mediation, which is not binding. If we go to mediation, and the College does not like the ruling we get, they can “implement”, which means that whatever the College believes to be its last and best offer will become the status quo, the rules under which we live and work.
What will that mean? Pay cuts, probably. Loss of all sick day accrual, and possibly loss of accrued sick days. Reverting to the usually arbitrary and capricious manner in which some departments assigned classes. Your accumulated service to the College will have no value. Departments will be free to play favorites again, as they once did. There will be no recourse to correct unfair or unjust treatment because management will set all the rules, and change them when they feel like it.
In short: no union protection left and you’ll be on your own.
What can you do? Write letters to Joanne Truesdell, CCC President. Tell her that you support the Part-Time Faculty Association in its efforts to get a fair and sustainable contract and that you don’t agree that PTF having rights means management has none. Do it now. If you put it off, you will not get it done.
Summer break is approaching. Many of you will be away from your CCC offices and email. We will update this blog frequently, so look HERE for the latest news.
In solidarity,
Rosemary
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