Topic: Collective Bargaining
New booklet! Know Your Rights: A guide to workplace laws for classified employees and paraprofessionals
This new 40-page booklet provides a comprehensive analysis of the California Education Code as it relates to classified employees. It includes topics such as hours of employment, vacation and leaves, refusal to perform unsafe work, layoff and reemployment, collective bargaining rights and much more.The booklet also covers the federal Family and Medical Leave Act and contains the Weingarten Rights.
More local action from around the state
»Menifee Council of Classified Employees negotiated five bereavement leave days for members, matching the number district teachers have.
»Tuolumne County Council of Classified Employees won a 3.15 percent increase in compensation for classified employees in the county office.
»United Educators of San Francisco published a booklet, Paraprofessionals and their Union, detailing the history of district paras and their union.
Palomar staff forge alliance with faculty, see major gains, doubling of membership
The Palomar College Council of Classified Employees and campus administrators in San Marcos settled a contract and memorandum of understanding that moved the staff forward by three major steps. 1) The 385 unit members received a $2,000 lump sum salary increase and 0.72 percent, plus a 3 percent raise that faculty also received. 2) This first contract replaced a 25-year-old employee handbook. 3) The local won binding arbitration for grievances.
CFT undertakes study of part-timer compensation
Comprehensive statewide analysis will compare pay rates, schedule advancements
In a show of support for part-time faculty, the CFT committed this year to completing the first phase of a substantial study of part-time faculty compensation that may prove invaluable to those seeking stronger contract language for part-time instructors.
ISSU-CFT and Pasadena City College reach tentative agreement
Instructional support staff employees ratify unanimously
On Thursday, June 20, the members of the Instructional Support Services Unit-CFT (ISSU-CFT) met to review and vote on a tentative agreement recommended by union President Julio Huerta and the executive board.
ISSU-CFT includes most of the nearly 225 professional and office staff at Pasadena City College. The independent ISSU unit voted to affiliate with the AFT last year as AFT Local 6525.
Classified who teach college classes preserve fair assignments and pay
The AFT College Staff Guild and the Los Angeles Community College District agreed in January that classified employees who accept adjunct teaching assignments do not need to reduce their classified hours if the assignment is outside regularly scheduled hours.
Gilroy paras win email time, domestic partner coverage
The Gilroy Federation of Teachers and Paraprofessionals is breaking new ground in negotiations covering about 120 paraprofessionals in the Gilroy Unified School District. President Arcelia O’Connor said previous contracts had not addressed emails and granted only limited rights for domestic partners.
“But now we have time to check district communications online,” O’Connor said, “and we have added domestic partners to members of the immediate family for items like family illness and bereavement.”
Coalition on Academic Workforce says unionized part-time faculty fare better
The recent results of an ambitious survey undertaken in 2010 of contingent academic workers provides a fuller picture of national trends affecting part-time instructors. The Coalition on the Academic Workforce designed its study to capture data about all contingent (non-tenure track) instructors but focused on part-time faculty working at post-secondary institutions.
What labor lost and won in Wisconsin
By Velma J. Butler, President, CFT Council of Classified Employees
There is no denying or candy-coating it: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was not recalled in the June 5 special election. Progressive voters led by public sector employees fell short of that goal, beaten in large part by a 7-1 flood of anti-union money.
Freeway Flyers: Local action & quick news
Coast rights injustice for part-timers working in non-instructional positions
After years of patience andpersistence, the Coast Federation of Educators secured compensation for two part-time non-instructional faculty members who were discovered to be working more hours than a full-timer — at a fraction of the pay.
When confronted with these violations, according to Local 1911 President Dean Mancina, the district claimed this group of faculty was exempt from both the California Education Code and the local’s collective bargaining agreement.