FACT: FACT: The Americans with Disabilities Act requires employers to take prompt action to provide reasonable accommodations to employees.   FAIRNESS: SMCCCD drags its feet in providing faculty with reasonable accommodations, delaying for months or even years before responding to faculty’s requests. FAIRNESS: During contract talks, AFT proposed a NO COST improvement: that the […]

  FACT: Gov. Newsom and the CA legislature have allocated $200 million per year in ongoing funding to pay for healthcare for community college adjunct faculty. FACT: Community college districts that provide adjunct faculty with quality, affordable health coverage can get their costs reimbursed up to 100% by the state. FACT: SMCCCD adjunct faculty currently […]

    FACT: The SMCCCD Board of Trustees claims that they are committed to social justice, including the principle that “all people…are entitled to a fair allocation of community resources.” FACT: SMCCCD faculty are paid, on average, below faculty at other community-supported/”Basic Aid” Districts.                       […]

Action Updates: Coming every Tuesday As we come to the end of the Spring 2023 semester without a contract, we will be sending out an AFT Action Update every Tuesday by email to give faculty more information about our contract proposals and developments in negotiations over the summer. We will also post these messages to […]

Dear colleagues, Well, we’ve got two teaching weeks left and have been negotiating for a complete calendar year, but we still don’t have a contract! We know how busy everyone is, so we’re going to make it easy for you to keep up with the status of our contract over the summer: 1. Stay Informed […]