LCC Faculty Colleagues –

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

Our time-sensitive priority focused on impacts to the LPN (i.e., Licensed Practical Nursing) program. The College presented a counter-offer of only 100 hours paid at the curriculum development rate to be divided among all affected or interested Nursing faculty. They made no other initial offer to address the impacts to faculty or students of the sudden program hiatus. 

Your LCCEA Team consulted with faculty, including LPN and Nursing faculty, who confirmed that the offer was insulting. We then prepared a more reasonable counter offer (below). We exchanged two more proposals and are close to an agreement that would provide 300 curriculum development hours and includes a stipulation that no affected Nursing faculty member will have their FTE reduced next year. The College also provided confirmation that student application fees have been refunded and provided assurance that they will provide the curriculum development funding even if the LPN program is reinstated for next year by the Board of Education.

In addition, your bargaining leads made a proposal to clean up many outstanding MOAs. This included eliminating eleven MOAs that are no longer relevant or rarely used. Furthermore, we proposed maintaining the Part-time Coaches MOA and the Hyflex MOA, which provides reduced class sizes for Hyflex modality classes. Moreover, we proposed incorporating a number of MOAs into the contract. These include Section 125 medical reimbursement contributions, class cancellation protections, office hour provisions, college governance reassignment time and compensation, JEDI curriculum development funding and faculty positions, re-employment of retired employees, among others. (See below.)

Your LCCEA Team also provided an updated proposal on Oregon Residency with clarifying language to align with the agreement reached in December with the College as well as an updated proposal to ensure the full contract utilizes gender neutral language, which has been a longstanding priority for faculty.  

The College presented a proposal on non-discrimination that includes some of the language we had proposed but still excludes many critical safeguards such as protection against discrimination on the basis of immigration status, union activity, height, and weight. 

Additionally, the Administration presented a proposal that strips privacy protection language from Article 16. This would remove our existing contract language that protects the privacy of faculty mailboxes, offices, email, phones, computers, and personal material. (See below.)

On a positive yet inconsequential note, we signed a Tentative Agreement (TA) to eliminate ten expired MOAs that were no longer in effect.

We greatly appreciated the exceptional showing of faculty who attended today’s session to observe in person during Summer! Faculty are always welcome to attend.

All bargaining sessions are scheduled in building 2, room 214, 1–4pm. We will resume bargaining on September 11th and again on September 30.

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

LCCEA Proposals Session 6/26/2025

College Proposals Session 6/26/25