AFT 1493’s bargaining team is preparing to begin faculty contract negotiations with District negotiators on a new three-year contract (July 2019 to June 2022) and, in preparation, the union conducted a survey of District faculty on areas that could be improved or added to our contract and what should be priorities in negotiations. In total, […]

By Joshua Pechthalt, CFT President By all measures, this was a very successful midterm election. Democrats picked up 40 seats in the U.S. House, which they will now control, and more than 300 legislative seats nationwide. In California, we ran the table on statewide officers and elected a supermajority in both houses of our state […]

View AFT 1493’s initial proposals for the 2019-2022 contract negotiations

View the summary of faculty responses to the AFT 1493 2018 Negotiations Survey.

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