San Mateo Community
College Federation of Teachers,
AFT Local 1493, AFL-CIO
Contract Proposals for the 2009-2012 Contract of Academic Employees
in the San Mateo County Community College District
Please transmit these contract
proposals to the Board of Trustees in order to initiate the negotiations
process for a new three-year contract.
Article 2: Organizational Rights
- Add to 2.1: Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Union shall have the right to
distribute, using its own personnel, Union newsletters to faculty
boxes, without reservation.
Article 5: Peaceful Settlement of
Differences
Article 7: Hours of Employment
- Change the workweek for nurses so that it is the
same as for librarians.
- Language to modify this article will be
forthcoming.
Article 8: Pay and Allowances
- The Regular Faculty Salary Schedule shall be
increased by 11% for the 2009-10 academic year.
- The Adjunct Faculty Salary Schedule shall be
increased by 11% for the 2009-10 academic year.
- The Faculty Overload Salary Schedule shall be
increased by 11% for the 2009-10 academic year.
- The Post-Retirement Salary Schedule shall be
increased by 11% for the 2009-10 academic year.
- Add MA w/ 75 units to column 5 of the Regular
Faculty Salary Schedule.
- Reinstate the 12 month option for paycheck
distribution.
- Provide additional compensation for
combined-level classes.
- Provide compensation for committee work, program
review, SLO development and other administrative functions.
Article 9: Health and Welfare
Benefits
- Effective August 17, 2009, the District will
adjust the employer paid premium cap for the PERS Health Plans medical
coverage using Kaiser as the benchmark. The District will increase the
medical cap as follows: Full coverage for single employees in all plans
except PERS Care which will be capped at $604.00 per month. For 2-Party
and Family Kaiser coverage the employee out of
pocket will not exceed $40.00 per month. For 2-Party and Family coverage
for all other medical plans the Employer contribution established for the
Kaiser Health Plan will apply to these plans.
- The District will provide the medical stipend to
part-time faculty who are employed in the District 20% or more of a
full-time load (3/15 FLC).
- Change Disability insurance benefits for faculty
to the same received by administrators.
Article 10: Retirement
- Faculty on post-retirement contracts will not
lose their seniority on the part-time seniority list.
Article 11: Leaves
- Language to modify this article will be
forthcoming.
Article 13: Professional Development
Program
- Language to modify this article will be
forthcoming.
Article 14: Layoffs
- Add to 14.2 that the Union
will also receive notice of the names of those identified for layoff.
Article 17: Grievance Procedure
- Add binding arbitration as the last step of the
grievance procedures.
Article 18: Summer Session
Employment
Article 19: Part-Time Employment
- The District will provide part-time faculty
access to a group health plan.
- Increase to five (5), the number of semesters a
break in service can exceed before the person’s name is to be removed from
the seniority list.
- Language strengthening seniority rights for
part-timers in the areas of assignment and retention and for preference
for full-time positions will be forthcoming.
Article 22: Unit Banking
- Increase to 30 the number of units that could be
accumulated before having to sue them.
Appendix F: FLC Allocation
- Increase Biological Sciences and Physical
Sciences to 1 FLC per hour.
- Increase Cosmetology laboratory classes to .70
FLC per hour.
Add an Academic Freedom clause to
the contract.
Language to modify the MOU’s on Distance Education and large classes will be
forthcoming.
Add a progressive discipline system
to the contract that includes a Skelly clause.
We reserve
the right to add to, modify or delete proposals at any time for any reason.
July 6, 2009
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