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December 13, 2024

Dear Members,

At the 12/11 Board of Trustees meeting, we sunshined the list of contract Articles that we will bring to bargaining. See the below list. “Sunshining” is a legally required “announcement” of what the two parties intend to negotiate. This officially marks the beginning of our negotiations cycle for our 2025-2028 contract. Our first negotiation session will take place February 7, 2025, over Zoom. 

We invite all members to attend our January 9, 2025 Flex Day session from 12:30-2:00 pm over Zoom (register here), where you’ll learn more about what happens next, including the mechanics of negotiations, the Contract Action Team’s (CAT) work on our first Board of Trustees action the evening of January 29, and the work of AFT’s Articles Committees (groups of members who propose contract proposals).

List of contract articles AFT1493 intends to bargain:

• Article 6 Workload and its associated Appendix F Faculty Load Credit
• Article 7 Hours of Employment
• Article 8 Pay and Allowances and its associated Appendix B Salary Schedules
• Article 9 Health and Welfare Benefits
• Article 10 Retirement
• Article 11 Leaves of Absence
• Article 13 Professional Development Program
• Article 16 Safety Conditions of employment
• Article 17 Grievance Procedures 
• Article 18 Summer Session Employment
• Article 19 Part-time employment
• Article 22 Unit banking
• Article 25 Reasonable Accommodation
• Article 26 Class Assignment
• Article 27 Duration 
• Appendix A AFT Bargaining Unit
• Appendix D Duties and Responsibilities
• Part-time benefits, including benefits listed in the MOU on Part-time faculty health insurance program
• New Article on Academic Freedom
• New Article on Dual Enrollment 

Have a great winter break, until we see you at our January 9th Flex Day! 

In unity,

Rika and Tamara
AFT 1493 Co-Presidents