First Bargaining Proposals

Your LCCEA Bargaining Team meets with the College today at 1:00-4:00 in 2/214. All faculty are welcome to attend bargaining sessions, all or any part of a session, as silent observers.

Above: LCCEA Action Team and Bargaining Team Leads Working for a Fair Contract

LCC Faculty Colleagues –

Your LCCEA Bargaining Team Leads met on May 8 for its first “real” bargaining session where we exchanged proposals that were the first part of a four-part series of initial proposals by each party in accordance with our ground rules. Other proposals exchanged so far are also posted here on the blog.

We presented Part A of our initial package proposal (below), which is the section focused on student needs. In addition, we presented our proposal that the contract be a seven-year agreement with the economics set for the first three years, followed by two economic reopeners for two years each, as well as a proposal that the full contract utilize gender neutral language.

The Student Needs section includes:

Increase support for student basic needs (i.e. food, housing, safe physical campus spaces);
Ensure adequate staffing for student services (i.e., counseling/mental health, advising, tutoring)
Reduce costs for students (i.e. textbook markup reduction, OER support, tuition waiver for DACA and undocumented students);
Expand sanctuary campus provisions and use LCC Alert when ICE is on campus;
Improve safety of physical campus (e.g., sufficient emergency call boxes);
Provide sufficient restrooms (i.e. more than one restroom stall per building);
Make campus more inclusive (i.e., sufficient gender neutral restrooms, open worship spaces, lactation spaces, complete a study of LCC name);
Provide an instructional specialist in classes with significant percentage of students with ADA accommodations; and
Create an appeal process for accommodations that fundamentally alter course.

The College’s proposal (also below) includes:

A contract in effect for two years only;
A “complete agreement clause,” which would eliminate all previous agreements about the meaning of the contract (i.e., past practice) and would eliminate all MOAs not negotiated or incorporated into the new agreement;
New provisions for “budget exigency” which would allow the College to open the contract and renegotiate salaries at any time if any one of the ten circumstances they proposed were triggered, all ten of which would be determined by the Administration alone;
Establishment of accrual families for the Florence campus for part-time faculty seniority, which would include classes taught in Florence and also classes taught entirely online, which have no physical location;
Establishment of the Oregon residency requirement for all faculty with no exceptions.