Questions?  Contact: AFT 1493 Executive Director Marianne Kaletzky Negotiations Reports contents: Reopener Negotiations (July 2022 through June 2025 contract): April 25, 2024 Negotiations Session April 19, 2024 Negotiations Session April 4, 2024 Negotiations Session March 19, 2024 Negotiations Session March 14, 2024 Negotiations Session March 7, 2024 Negotiations Session February 29, 2024 Negotiations Session New […]

Jessica Silver-Sharp, Timothy Rottenberg, Michael Phipps and Lucia Lachmayr made comments to the Board of Trustees at the February 24 Board meeting calling on the Board to support a 4-year path to part-time parity (at 85% pro rata) and a mirrored salary schedule for part-time faculty members. 180 letters in support of part-time parity were […]

Our District has long talked about tackling serious inequities, from the need for diversity to other social justice issues. But they remain complacent about one glaring inequity, their failure to pay part-time faculty equitably in proportion to full-timers. SMCCCD not only does not pay part-time faculty equitably compared to full-time faculty in our district, they […]

To highlight SMCCD pay inequities between administrators and faculty and between SMCCD part-time faculty and neighboring districts, AFT 1493 has created three Zoom backgrounds faculty can display during meetings.  We encourage faculty to download and use these backgrounds whenever you feel it would be appropriate (e.g in committee and division meetings.) To download any of […]

We are happy to share some good news!  Through the hard work and heartfelt testimonies of a number of union members, especially faculty parents, we have now settled a Memorandum of Understanding for Spring 2021.  The MOU renews the leave opportunities previously guaranteed by the FFCRA: that is, faculty caring for children whose schools are […]