LCC Faculty Colleagues –

Your LCCEA faculty bargaining leads met with the Administration again today for bargaining. 

After faculty in the LPN (i.e., Licensed Practical Nursing) program learned last week that the highly successful program would not be offered next year despite the large number of student applicants awaiting an orientation that would have happened today, LCCEA demanded to bargain over the impacts. Your leads made a proposal (below) to address the impacts of the sudden program cessation for next year to address both faculty and student needs. The proposal includes: release time for faculty affected by the sudden program hiatus, curriculum development funding, course scheduling provisions as well as support for students such as refunds for the application fee, counseling and advising support, and a tuition waiver. 

In addition, your bargaining leads made a proposal to eliminate ten MOAs that are no longer relevant such as several previous Covid and separation incentive MOAs in order to meet the College’s interest in reducing the number of MOAs. (See below.)

The Administration’s only movement was an updated proposal on Oregon residency which would do nothing other than postpone the requirement until January 1, 2026. In addition, they clarified that their previous proposal on continuing education that allows the college to pay any rate of pay that they determine does not apply to ABSE and ESL. (See below.)

The Administration also provided clarifications on some of their previous proposals, including Art. 23. For example, they stated that Faculty Professional Development committees would only vote to make recommendations to the Vice President of Academic Affairs, who would decide on all applications for funding including conferences, sabbaticals, etc. They also clarified that the College would assign the required 12 hours of cultural competence professional development and that faculty, regardless of their expertise, would have no choice in what professional development they must participate in to meet the requirement.

In response to our queries, the Administration also clarified that their proposal would remove the class size maximums and workload parameters in the contract and would allow them to change established class sizes at any time in the future.

Thank you to the more than a dozen faculty who attended today’s session to observe in person and on Zoom. All faculty are welcome to attend.

All bargaining sessions are scheduled in building 2, room 214. We have one more date this month coming up on June 26th, and then we will resume bargaining again on September 11th.

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

We look forward to seeing you soon, and please look for more information from the Action Team about ways to support faculty goals for our contract.

Your LCCEA Bargaining Team Leads,

Gerry Meenaghan

Adrienne Mitchell

April Myler

Peggy Oberstaller

Ryan Olds

Russell Shitabata

Kellen Wilson

CBA Updates, MOAs, No Waivers, Modifications

Article 49–Impacts of Licensed Practical Nursing Program (LPN) Hiatus