CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS Minor movement in latest round of bargaining by Paul Bissember & Monica Malamud, AFT Negotiating Team members The November 26 bargaining session focused on workload, progressive discipline, investigations, part-time pay parity, and we also presented information about the
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MEMBER FEEDBACK Responses from our members on “Equal pay for labs” The following messages are in response to the article, “Equal pay for labs: SMT faculty members share their thoughts,” in our last issue. Thoughts on equal pay for lab
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MEMBER BENEFITS Union-sponsored scholarships available to AFT members and their dependents The California Federation of Teachers (CFT) offers scholarships–through the Raoul Teilhet Scholarship program–to high school seniors and college students who are children or dependents of CFT members in good
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DISABILITY RIGHTS Faculty with disabilities: Creating a culture of inclusion By Lori Slicton, Skyline College, Anthropology “Out of Order” read the sign taped to the problematic Bldg. 2 elevator. It remained inoperable for eight weeks. Building 2 houses the pulse
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FACULTY-CLASSIFIED SOLIDARITY CSEA supports AFT speakers, raises concerns about Chancellor search process At the November 20 SMCCD Board of Trustees meeting, following the faculty members who spoke about how contract issues affected teaching and learning (see page 1,) Juanita Celaya,
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