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  • Remember to wear your union shirt on T-shirt Wednesdays!

  • Faculty wear AFT T-shirts every Wednesday to support union negotiators

  • Members of AFT 1493 Executive Committee at August 27, 2021 Retreat

  • Members of AFT 1493’s Contract Action Team (CAT) celebrate tentative agreement of new faculty contract (April 2021)

  • AFT 1493ers at 2021 May Day Labor March in SF

  • Faculty, students call for fair contract at 2/26/20 Board meeting

  • Faculty jam Nov. 20, 2019 Board of Trustees meeting

  • Some of over 90 faculty who attended Nov. 20, 2019 Board meeting

  • Faculty wear AFT T-shirts to support union negotiators

  • More faculty wear AFT T-shirts to support union negotiators

  • Even more faculty wear AFT T-shirts to support union negotiators

  • AFT 1493ers at 2016 CFT Convention

  • AFT 1493 members have joined for many reasons. What about you?

  • AFT 1493 fights for part-time faculty seniority rights

What’s New?

  • 15 SPEAKERS URGE BOARD TO FUND PAY PARITY & EQUITABLE HEALTHCARE FOR ADJUNCTS
  • SIGN THE PETITION TO CHANCELLOR & BOARD TO APPROVE A FAIR FACULTY CONTRACT
  • DISTRICT’S CURRENT PROPOSAL WILL LEAVE FACULTY UNDERPAID
  • FACULTY SPEAK OUT IN SUPPORT OF ADJUNCT HEALTHCARE COVERAGE
  • AFT SHIRTS = FACULTY POWER! ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻 AFT T-SHIRT DAY WEDNESDAY

What’s New?

  • 15 SPEAKERS URGE BOARD TO FUND PAY PARITY & EQUITABLE HEALTHCARE FOR ADJUNCTS
  • SIGN THE PETITION TO CHANCELLOR & BOARD TO APPROVE A FAIR FACULTY CONTRACT
  • DISTRICT’S CURRENT PROPOSAL WILL LEAVE FACULTY UNDERPAID
  • FACULTY SPEAK OUT IN SUPPORT OF ADJUNCT HEALTHCARE COVERAGE
  • AFT SHIRTS = FACULTY POWER! ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻  AFT T-SHIRT DAY WEDNESDAY!

The Advocate

March-April 2023 (Issue 46, Num. 5)

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In this issue:

  • 15 speakers present strong case to Board for Part-time Parity and Part-Time Faculty Healthcare

    The Board of Trustees heard public comments from 15 different speakers on Wednesday (3/22), all of whom urged the Board to direct district negotiators to agree to a fair contract, including affordable healthcare for all faculty and equitable pay for adjunct faculty.
  • While San Mateo county has the highest property values in the US, our district’s salaries and benefits are behind neighboring districts
    Considering the exceedingly high cost of living that makes it difficult for our faculty to afford to live in the area and the district’s correspondingly high revenues that provide it with a very healthy budget, it is only reasonable to expect that our faculty’s salaries and benefits should be at the top compared to those in other districts. This is mostly not the case, however, especially when we compare our adjunct faculty’s pay and benefits to other Bay Area Basic Aid districts.
  • Sign the petition to Interim Chancellor Moreno and the Board to approve a fair contract for faculty!
    We have been without a contract for 10 months now! Please sign AFT 1493’s petition to ask District leadership to negotiate in good faith to provide: an increase in wages that allows faculty to afford to live in our high-cost area, affordable healthcare for all faculty and equitable pay for adjunct faculty.
  • Gendered division of labor: Who does the work when it’s time to do the work?
    Gender inequity persists on every campus, but it seems that ways in which women experience discrimination, microaggressions, harassment and lack of advancement opportunities are generally accepted, easy to overlook and have not been made a priority.
  • Faculty Focus: Meet Doris Garcia, Promise Counselor & Co-Coordinator of the Katipunan Learning Community at CSM
    For Doris, “Counseling is mentorship, it’s being a hype woman, it’s holding accountability with high support. The system and the institution of education was built WITHOUT many of our students in mind. And so, I hold the time I spend with students sacred.”
  • AFT 1493 members attend California Federation of Teachers Convention in SF

    A dynamic contingent of AFT 1493 members attended the biennial Convention of the California Federation of Teachers from March 17 through 19.

AFT 1493 UPDATES

  • CURRENT DISTRICT PROPOSAL WILL LEAVE FACULTY UNDERPAID

    February 28, 2023
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  • FACULTY SPEAK OUT IN SUPPORT OF ADJUNCT HEALTHCARE COVERAGE

    February 23, 2023
    “Why won’t you direct the District’s negotiating team to agree to provide our deserving part-time …Read More »

  • AFT SHIRTS = FACULTY POWER! ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻 AFT T-SHIRT WEDNESDAYS

    February 14, 2023
    Some faculty members have asked: How does wearing an AFT T-shirt on Wednesdays help us …Read More »

  • DISTRICT WON’T RESPOND TO AFT HEALTHCARE PROPOSALS👎! AFT T-SHIRT DAY WEDNESDAY!

    January 31, 2023
    For a District that prides itself on fairness and equity, SMCCCD is doing a terrible …Read More »

  • LET US KNOW WE CAN COUNT ON YOU TO WIN A STRONG CONTRACT!

    January 20, 2023
    Together we can win fair compensation and an equitable workplace! The District has offered faculty …Read More »

  • GET READY: WEAR YOUR AFT T-SHIRT EVERY WEDNESDAY TILL WE WIN

    January 17, 2023
    Remember to wear your AFT T-shirts every Wednesday until we win a fair contract! We …Read More »
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In the News

Recent articles related to community college faculty issues, labor and SMCCCD, selected from local, state and national news sources.

3/17/23 — City College of San Francisco struggles to heat classrooms (Inside Higher Ed)

3/1/23 — Governor’s Proposed State Budget for 2023-24 (CFT)

2/27/23 — California community colleges rely too much on part-time faculty and misspend funds, audit finds (EdSource)

2/25/23 — Community college district to restart chancellor search because confidentiality was ‘compromised’ (The Almanac)

2/23/23 — Sonya Christian named chancellor of California Community Colleges (EdSource)

2/16/23 — Strange way for college board to name new trustee (San Mateo Daily Journal)

2/16/23 — Dual Enrollment Comes at a Cost (Inside Higher Ed)

2/13/23 — Community College District sues 5 contractors, accusing them of ripoff (P.A. Daily Post)

2/10/23 — Former San Mateo County Community College District Chancellor Ron Galatolo case likely delayed (San Mateo Daily Journal)

2/10/23 — San Mateo Comm. College Dist. sues five companies in ‘pay to play’ scandal (Mercury News)

2/10/23 — Community college district lawsuit alleges ‘pay-to-play’ in construction projects under former chancellor (The Almanac)

2/9/23 — Former San Mateo Co. Community College District Chancellor Ron Galatolo at center of legal action over bond money (San Mateo Daily Journal)

2/9/23 — San Mateo County Community College District trustees appoint former Millbrae councilman to fill vacated seat (The Almanac)

2/2/23 — Budding spring enrollments? (Community College Daily)

1/31/23 — Legislative Analyst’s Office 2023-24 Higher Education Budget Overview (LAO)

1/24/23 — CFT-sponsored wealth tax introduced in California Assembly (CFT)

1/18/23 — New federal data show two-year enrollment trends by age (Inside Higher Ed)

1/17/23 — As Students’ Mental-Health Concerns Grow, One University’s Professors Say They Should Get a Raise (Chronicle of Higher Ed.)

1/11/23 — What’s Next for Higher Education in 2023? (Public Policy Institute of California)

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Thank you @josh.becker.ca for supporting healthcar Thank you @josh.becker.ca for supporting healthcare for our hardworking community college faculty! Together we will win
Tonight faculty from 6 community college districts Tonight faculty from 6 community college districts that have already agreed to provide part-timers healthcare joined our members to call for our district to join them and do the right thing. They spoke to our Board alongside representatives for Sen. Josh Becker and our statewide union @cftunion. As several speakers emphasized, it’s time for our district to serve faculty, students, and our whole community by doing their part to keep part-timers healthy. Let’s put the community back in community college!
Bosses like to say “we’re all a family” but Bosses like to say “we’re all a family” but you know who is your family at work? The union!
@aft_1493 members out in solidarity with our union @aft_1493 members out in solidarity with our union siblings at @unitededucatorsofsf and @aft_2121. The City of San Francisco and the State of California must provide free, quality public education from preschool to college. “We are the hope, and we have a plan…We are here united for the schools our students need and deserve.”
SMCCD part-timers: join us on Zoom this Thursday t SMCCD part-timers: join us on Zoom this Thursday to better understand your rights and benefits! We’ll have a session at 1:30 and a session at 4:30–come to either. Register at the link in our bio to get the Zoom link
Let’s plan our fight to win: join us on your cam Let’s plan our fight to win: join us on your campus for Solidarity Hours this week to discuss assertive action. More info (including details of Solidarity Hours on each campus) in our stories—or dm us for details
Huge thanks to Maurice Goodman for his leadership, Huge thanks to Maurice Goodman for his leadership, thoughtfulness, and vision as SMCCCD Trustee. Congratulations on your election to your new position, Vice Mayor Goodman—we will miss you but we look forward to seeing how you lead the City of Millbrae!
Faculty: tomorrow is t-shirt Wednesday! No shirt? Faculty: tomorrow is t-shirt Wednesday! No shirt? No problem. We’re hosting t-shirt office hours on every campus where members can get an AFT t-shirt—swipe to see when and where. And remember to wear your AFT shirts tomorrow and every Wednesday until we win the contract we deserve! #unionpower #solidarity
The District continues to reject AFT’s basic pro The District continues to reject AFT’s basic proposals for more a equitable workplace—including a clear disability accommodations process, paid parental leave, the right to work some hours remotely, and the right to choose whether to teach in dual enrollment programs. But we can win if we demonstrate our union strength and commitment to these proposals. Show administrators and colleagues our union power by wearing your AFT shirt *tomorrow* (W 1/18) and every Wednesday till we win! ✊🏾❤️
Any institution that touts itself as “the best p Any institution that touts itself as “the best public university in the world” must pay its teachers and researchers a living wage. @aft1493 is here in solidarity with @uaw2865 @sruuaw and @uaw5810 to SHUT. IT. DOWN until they do. Pay your workers like you should!
We are grateful to Assemblymember @alex_lee for hi We are grateful to Assemblymember @alex_lee for his tireless support of quality, affordable healthcare for community college part-timers! Part-time faculty are 55% of faculty in our district, are just as committed to students as full-timers, and often work more than full-time between their multiple faculty jobs. #facultyhealthcarenow #campusequityweek
Faculty shouldn’t have to be married to rich peo Faculty shouldn’t have to be married to rich people to make ends meet and get basic medical care! We need fair compensation for all faculty and #facultyhealthcarenow for part-timers. #campusequityweek
Our members and supporters agree: healthcare is a Our members and supporters agree: healthcare is a human right and SMCCCD must provide health coverage for part-timers, who are the majority of our faculty. #CampusEquityWeek #FacultyHealthcareNow
It was wonderful to see so many of you out in forc It was wonderful to see so many of you out in force together with our @csea_now colleagues and @cftunion President Jeff Freitas to demand a fair contract for faculty and staff alike, including paid parental leave for faculty and healthcare coverage for part-time faculty! Thank you for helping us bring attention to AFT’s #CampusEquityWeek and helping us win #facultyhealthcarenow
We need you: join your colleagues in taking action We need you: join your colleagues in taking action to win paid parental leave for faculty and quality, affordable healthcare for part-timers! Let’s tell the Board why these proposals will make our campuses more equitable and allow faculty to better support our students. RSVP at the link in our bio
Our local proudly supports #measureDD to provide f Our local proudly supports #measureDD to provide free early care and preschool for all kids in South City while raising the wages of childcare workers! Vote yes on DD
AFT 1493 members were proud to meet faculty from a AFT 1493 members were proud to meet faculty from across the region in Santa Clara to strategize on how we can win quality, affordable healthcare plans for part-timers in all our locals! We are going to be turning members out to build the public pressure and win! We were also happy to be joined by CFT President Jeff Freitas and VP Lacy Barnes. Want to get involved in our campaign? Send us a DM
Currently, part-time faculty in our district can o Currently, part-time faculty in our district can only get SMCCCD healthcare if they pay the whole premium themselves! That’s hundreds and potentially thousands of dollars a month. We are grateful to Governor @gavinnewsom, Senate pro tem President @senatortoniatkins, and Speaker @rendon63rd for investing $200 million yearly for healthcare for part-time community college faculty. Now we need a trailer bill that ensures as many faculty as possible can access a quality, affordable healthcare plan #facultyhealthcarenow
Today members of @aft_1493 and @cftunion had the h Today members of @aft_1493 and @cftunion had the huge honor of meeting @amazonlaborunion organizer Chris Smalls to discuss how we can win fair pay, reproductive rights, and a world where no one lives in fear of police violence and mass shootings. And we got to show our support for @reiunionberkeley workers holding their union election on Wednesday! ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼
Members of @aft_1493 were on hand at SF City Hall Members of @aft_1493 were on hand at SF City Hall yesterday to support a ballot initiative to aid SF’s recovery by investing in City College! So great to see @seiu1021 @aft_2121 and other activists turn in more than 20,000 signatures in favor of putting #sfwercs on the November ballot. Thanks SF Supervisors @myrnamelgard7 and @deanprestond5 for being there too!
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