LCC Faculty Colleagues,
Your Faculty Bargaining Team leads met with College representatives today for yet another preliminary meeting on ground rules. We do not have an agreement and will have to continue next Thursday for another three hour session to attempt to reach agreement.
While we have made a lot of movement, the College has been unwilling so far to allow anyone to observe bargaining on Zoom unless they have an ADA accommodation. Given that the majority of our faculty are part-time; 50% of all courses offered at LCC are online; the norm on campus that virtually all meetings have a Zoom option; the fact that LCC has campuses throughout the County (e.g., downtown, Cottage Grove, Florence); and that the College recently allowed LCCEF members to observe their bargaining last year via Zoom and ours the year before, we are baffled and dismayed that the College seeks to constrain faculty members’ ability to observe.
We will continue this discussion again next week as we work on ensuring faculty have access to observe bargaining sessions both in person and on Zoom.
Our updated schedule for bargaining sessions is as follows.
- April 24, 1-4
- May 8, 1-4
- May 23, 12-2
- May 29, 1-4
- June 5, 1-4
Your LCCEA Bargaining Team Leads:
Gerry Meenaghan
Adrienne Mitchell
April Myler
Peggy Oberstaller
Ryan Olds
Russell Shitabata
Lane Community College Education Association 