Join your union faculty colleagues for AFT 1493’s “Week of Action”: April 18-21 As we kick off the campaign for our next faculty contract, AFT 1493 will be holding a Week of Action April 18-21 to share information about our contract demands and build momentum to win them. We hope you will join us! Please […]

On March 23, the Board of Trustees held a public hearing on AFT’s initial proposals, and the district’s proposals, for the next faculty contract, which will cover July 2022-June 2025.  The process called “sunshining,” is legally required for collective bargaining with public employees and after the sunshining process is complete, negotiations for the new contract […]

Dear faculty colleagues, We are writing to encourage you to stand in solidarity with our colleagues at City College of San Francisco, who are fighting to protect their jobs and maintain a vital institution of higher education in the Bay Area. Without a budget mandate, CCSF Board of Trustees voted to approve a plan to […]

Dear faculty colleagues, As you may be aware, masking requirements put in place by the California Department of Public Health and Cal/OSHA have changed. Currently, SMCCCD continues to require all individuals on campuses to wear masks indoors. However, if this requirement were rescinded, the new CDPH and Cal/OSHA guidance would allow both employees and students, regardless of vaccination […]

At the January 26 SMCCCD Board of Trustees meeting, AFT 1493 Executive Secretary Marianne Kaletzky shared some results from AFT’s faculty survey on class and work experiences from the first week of in-person instruction and she called on the Board and the District to allow flexibility for faculty to temporarily move their classes and other […]