LCC Faculty Colleagues –

Your LCCEA Bargaining Leads have further analyzed the Administration’s proposal and find it troubling in the extreme.

The Administration’s proposal would produce a net reduction in College spending on total faculty compensation and benefits by reducing healthcare benefits and extracting significant workload increases as follows.

• Making 45 TLCs/credits a minimum instead of a maximum for all full-time faculty (except for Advanced Technology, Culinary, and Aviation Maintenance which would maintain a 51 TLC requirement);
• Making overloads mandatory for full-time faculty who do not have assignments of 45 TLCs/credits (the majority of faculty) with most full-time faculty assigned one or more additional courses;
• Paying only part of the overload course, resulting in effective salary rates well below the 85% overload rate and below part-time salary rates;
• Removing class sizes and other workload parameters from the contract;
• Increasing the number of courses the majority of full-time faculty teach;
• Removing compensation for part-time faculty to complete required assessment activities;
• Setting the TLC factor for lecture-lab at .700, significantly increasing workload for contracted faculty and decreasing compensation for part-time faculty for all courses with lecture-lab; and
• Allowing classes to be assigned up to 150% of the “established” (but unspecified) class size with stipends for large classes based on the end of fourth week enrollment.

At the same time, the Administration’s proposal seeks changes to allow layoffs with only 60 calendar days notice such that a faculty member could find out on July 15 that their job was permanently eliminated beginning in Fall term, convert laid off contracted faculty positions to part-time positions, assign faculty to any three terms of the year, reduce FPD funding, eliminate the minimum number of contracted faculty positions, and numerous other major rollbacks.

Please see below side-by-side comparison of the proposals from the Administration and LCCEA.

In addition, please see the below “workload impacts” file to understand more about how the Administration’s proposal would affect your workload.

Bargaining Team leads will share additional information at the union meeting today, June 2 at 3:15 p.m. in CEN 402 and on Zoom , and Action Team members will share next steps.

All bargaining sessions are scheduled in building 2, room 214. Upcoming dates are as follows. 

1. June 5, 1-4
2. June 26, 1-4
3. Sept 11, 1-4
4. Sept 30, 1-4

We look forward to seeing you soon.

Your LCCEA Bargaining Team Leads,

Gerry Meenaghan

Adrienne Mitchell

April Myler

Peggy Oberstaller

Ryan Olds

Russell Shitabata

Kellen Wilson