LCC Faculty Colleagues –

Today we made some progress in bargaining. It is clear that the organizing activities like last week’s march, Board emails, Board speakers, and our robust voting campaign are having an impact. Let’s keep up our momentum! 

Today we proposed:

* updated language on privacy rights that brings us close to agreement on that issue (Art. 16);

* elimination of one additional MOA to meet College interests in simplifying the final contract (CBA Updates);

* updates on safety and working conditions in the event of a public health emergency that clarifies faculty interests and includes basic safety provisions such as remote meeting options and water and indoor safety standards that apply at all times (Art. 46); 

* updated language regarding a move to a new LMS (i.e., Canvas) that would provide reasonable time and compensation for the transition while lowering the total cost of our initial proposal (Art. 43); 

* a minor update to our proposal about new hire orientations to address College concerns (Art. 11); and

* a scaled back version of Art.9 that includes one non-instructional work day for Election Day in November for educational activities with no additional cost to the College.

The College proposed:

* to continue current language in Art. 1, withdrawing their proposal that contracted faculty who work 0.75 FTE would be considered part-time faculty; 

* one meaningful update to Art. 10 by withdrawing their proposal that would have allowed layoffs for the sole purpose of converting full-time faculty to part-time positions but NO update that restores part-time faculty protections against removal for exercising inherent rights (e.g. nondiscrimination, free speech, academic freedom, etc.);

* a proposal that would cut insurance benefits less than their previous proposal did, moving to Moda Plan 2 as the base plan, but also suspending important language that protects against large employee contributions for next year (Art. 33);

* a couple of updates that retain existing language on part-time faculty pay for specific committees and governance meetings and one incorporating a single provision from an existing ESL MOA (Art. 26, 34, governance article);

* a proposal to deduct contracted faculty dues over ten months instead of nine, resulting in lower deductions each month, but no response to our proposal to make similar changes for part-time faculty dues nor to pay part-time faculty for Fall term earlier than October 25 (Art. 31); and

* a slightly updated proposal allowing a faculty member to ask their dean to find a sub when ill (Art. 32).  

See links below for Oct 14 proposals and here all proposals.

Still, the Administration rejected all of our proposals on lockdown and public health safety, student needs (such as mental health clinicians and basic needs support), faculty essentials (such as office space, hardware/software to do our jobs, rights and protections around AI, ethical search processes) and many more.

Clearly, we still have a long way to go with significant outstanding issues including workload, compensation, class size, lab rates, and numerous others.

We will host informal Q & A session on Zoom, which is open to all faculty:

Friday, October 17, 1:30 – 2:00 Register here

The stakes remain high. Please be on the lookout for updates from your Department Reps and Action Team for more ways to participate and help shape bargaining in the coming days and weeks.

At this time, due to the Administration’s lack of availability, we won’t meet for bargaining again for nearly a month, and we only have the following four remaining dates scheduled. Please join us in building 2, room 214 for part or all of any session. 

• Mon., Nov 10, 2-5 p.m.
• Tues., Nov 18, 1-4 p.m.
• Tues., Dec 2, 1-4 p.m.
• Tues., Dec 16, 1-4 p.m.

Your LCCEA Bargaining Team Leads,

Gerry Meenaghan

Adrienne Mitchell

April Myler

Peggy Oberstaller

Ryan Olds

Russell Shitabata

PROPOSALS

Oct 14 LCCEA Proposals

Oct 14 Administration Proposals