Happy New Year!

Over the break, your LCCEA Bargaining Team has analyzed in detail the Administration’s current proposal in bargaining. While the Administration did make some moves back to current contract language at the last bargaining session on December 16 (e.g., maintaining current insurance language, minor increase of lab TLC to 0.7 instead of 0.682), the overall Administration proposal still represents a substantial net reduction in LCC funding of faculty, amounting to more than a $1.0 Million decrease in investment in faculty through: 

• Implementing underpaid, mandatory overloads for full-time faculty, removing class size limits, increasing workload in Writing by more than 22%
• We estimate these changes result in reduction of 43% of classes available for part-time faculty to teach. This would mean mass job loss for part-time faculty.

Only two bargaining sessions remain on January 13 and January 20, both 10-4 in 2/214. All faculty are welcome. We are also currently scheduling mediation.

Call to Action: Now is the time to stand together in solidarity to show faculty will not accept these cuts! The Action Team will be holding informational picketing beginning at 4:30 on Wednesday, January 7 prior to the Board of Ed meeting. RSVP here. 
For more background on where things stand in bargaining, see this brief comparison chart or this full comparison with details.

Your LCCEA Bargaining Team Leads,

Adrienne Mitchell

April Myler

Gerry Meenaghan

Michael Marchman

Peggy Oberstaller

Russell Shitabata