FACULTY ASSOCIATION, AFT 6157

NEWSLETTERFall 02, Issue 3 – Monday, October 28, 2002

Call For Self-Nominations ENDORSEMENTS By Mark Newton FA President SAN JOSE/EVERGREEN CC DISTRICT BOARD OF TRUSTEES Seat 2………………………………………. Fred Tovar Fall Means Elections! Seat 6………………………………………. Richard Hobbs

The Faculty Association (FA), AFT 6157 STATEWIDE represents faculty interests in bargaining Governor…………………………………… (D) and working conditions. The Faculty Lieutenant Governor……………………….. Cruz Bustamante (D) Association Executive Board is a Attorney General……………….…………... (D) Secretary of State…………………………... Kevin Shelley (D) voluntary body that determines policy of Controller…………………………………... (D) the FA. It is again time to call for self- Treasurer…………………………………… Phillip Angelides (D) nominations to the FA Executive Board. Insurance Commissioner…………………… (D) Four positions are up for election this fall: Superintendent of Public Instruction………. Jack O’Connell Board of Equalization, District 1…….…….. Carole Migden (D) District-Wide Board of Equalization, District 2…….…….. No Endorsement Fiscal Officer Board of Equalization, District 3…….…….. No Endorsement Internal Information Officer Board of Equalization, District 4…….…….. John Chiang (D)

EVC Full-Time Representative STATE SENATE 08 Jackie Speier (D) 14 William Fjellbo (D) write-in SJCC Part-Time Representative 10 Liz Figueroa (D) 16 Dean Florez (D) 12 Rusty Areias (D) 18 No Endorsement Any SJECCD faculty member (and FA member) is eligible to run for the first two STATE ASSEMBLY 12 (D) 22 Sally J Lieber (D) positions. Obviously, the second two 13 Mark Leno (D) 23 Manny Diaz (D) positions are taken from a more restricted 14 Loni Hancock (D) 24 Rebecca Cohn (D) pool. Ballot statements (up to a page 15 Donna Gerber (D) 25 E. Denise Smith (D) typed) need to be made in writing and 16 (D) 26 Tom Hallinan (D) delivered to SJCC either to the FA office 17 Barbara S. Matthews (D) 27 John Laird (D) (W114) or to FA President, Mark Newton, 18 Ellen M. Corbett (D) 28 Simon Salinas (D) (W106) by 2:00 pm on Friday November 19 Gene Mullin (D) 29 Richard Martinez, Jr. (D) 8th, 2002. It is acceptable, and in fact 20 John A. Dutra (D) 30 Nicole M. Parra (D) preferred, if the document is transferred 21 Joe Simitian (D) via email. The election is scheduled to th US CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVES begin Monday November 18 . 07 George Miller (D) 13 Fortney (Pete) Stark (D) 08 (D) 14 Anna G. Eshoo

09 Barbara Lee (D) 15 Mike Honda (D)

10 Ellen O. Tauscher (D) 16 Zoe Lofgren VOTE: NOVEMBER 5, 2002 11 Elaine Shaw (D) 17 Sam Farr (D) 12 Tom Lantos (D) 18 Dennis A. Cardoza All of us have an obligation to vote in the upcoming election. Because the Faculty PROPOSITIONS Association is part of the American 46 Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act of 2002………………. YES Federation of Teachers (AFT), we are 47 Education Facilities: Kindergarten University able to use the vast resources of a Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2002………………….……….. YES nationwide Union. Through its political 48 Court Consolidation……………………………………………….…….. YES 49 After School Programs. State Grants. Initiative Statute………………….NO organization, the AFT/CFT endorses 50 Water Quality, Supply and Safe Drinking Water Projects. various candidates and takes positions on Coastal Wetlands Purchase and Protection. Bonds. propositions that are before the electorate. Initiative Statute…………………………………………………………. YES 51 Transportation. Allocation of Sales and Use Taxes Raised This is a list of endorsements that affect From Sale or Lease of Motor Vehicles. our every day life as Community College Initiative Statute………………………………………………….No Recommendation Instructors. Please take this list with you to 52 Election Day Voter Registration. Initiative Statute………………..……..YES the polls:

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FA FIGHTS FOR SENIOR As you know, if you want something done thinking by them, but they were a big part FACULTY MEMBER in government, you need to lobby. You of it, along with CFT and other unions and The Reinstatement of Anne Heffley may or may not succeed with your political organizations. By Patrick Butler lobbying, but you’re almost guaranteed that FA Grievance Officer you’ll get nothing if you don’t lobby. As a member of the Executive Board of our FACCC is the lobbying arm of local union, the Faculty Association, AFT On October 17 the District responded to an Community College faculty; the primary 6157, my final comment should clarify that informal grievance filed by the Faculty role of FACCC is to represent you (if you the FA bargains with the district about how Association by rescinding the cancellation are a faculty member) and lobby for you to use the money we receive from the state. of the only class assigned to English within the California legislature—it’s a big FACCC also helps to convince the Instructor Anne Heffley. job and they’re good at it. FACCC works legislature and the governor to send us with our parent organization California some—and the reasons why. As you can Ann Heffley had retired two years ago after Federation of Teachers (CFT) in see, both are critical to making sure that completing a distinguished career of over Sacramento, fighting hard for our rights. faculty, full time and part time are treated forty years at San José City College. Dean with dignity and respect. Lois Lund cancelled Anne’s only class The operation of FACCC is dependent (Directed Study) without consultation with upon voluntary membership dues. After 35 the instructor. This is required by the FA years in the system and many years of contract. A meeting with Dean Lois Lund, working on the state level and interacting …AND ON THE SEVENTH District HR Director Pauline Clarke, Anne with the members of FACCC, I can assure DAY, FACULTY REST and FA Grievance Officer Patrick Butler you that every penny is well spent. I see a Sabbaticals Defined By District: 8th Year resulted in the return of her class in this fall problem approaching, though, and that is By Barbara Hanfling schedule and a promise of another adjunct that we old faculty members—most of FA Executive Director teaching assignment for her this spring. whom are long-time members of FACCC-- are going to retire. If you young faculty Much to the surprise of the FA, AFT 6157, Anne Heffley has a record of campus members don’t see the importance of an email put out to the entire faculty from activism that stretches back to her days as a joining, the organization will become the head of the PRC informed faculty that graduate student at Berkley. Anne is the weakened. Remember that UC, CSU and sabbaticals could not be taken until the senior member of the SJCC Academic K-12 have even stronger lobby eighth year of service with the District. We Senate, a past officer of the FA and the organizations. Why does UC faculty spend immediately filed a grievance stating that President of the Fund for the Advancement more money on lobbying than we do? We the District had violated Article 14.2 and of Education Inc., a non-profit organization outnumber them. Could it be that they are past practice. The FA demanded that the dedicated to serving the cause of education more politically savvy District continue to follow past practice in this district. Ironically, a few days before and give faculty members the right to apply her termination, Anne had received the If every CCC faculty member joined in the sixth year and take their sabbaticals Silver Recognition Award for Service to FACCC, our lobby voice could double or in the seventh year (root of the word Education from the American Federation triple what it already is. It is my sabbaticals is seventh). Right now the of Teachers (AFT). understanding that fewer than half of our District is maintaining that faculty must district faculty members belong, and most apply in the seventh year and take their of those who do not are relatively new. If sabbatical in the eighth year. you decide to join, call FACCC at FACCC LOBBYS FOR (916)447-8555 or talk to the FA (x 3779) - Last year we heard from many faculty who it’s easy to set up an automatic payroll FACULTY AT THE had applied for their sabbatical in their deduction. I know you don’t make enough sixth year, taken it in their seventh and LEGISLATIVE LEVEL money, but you would probably be making again every seventh year thereafter. By Bill Jacobs a lot less if it were not for the efforts of Suddenly the District thinks they can FA Executive Board Member FACCC over the years. English Instructor, EVC rewrite the contract and reinterpret 20 years

of past practice. One faculty member, Should part-timers join FACCC? Consider If you are new to the faculty, you are stated: “I took my sabbatical in my the great pay raise you recently received. It probably confused by all the organizational seventh year…like God on the seventh day was funded, for the most part, by the state acronyms; I have to confess that I was for in the seventh year. That’s what Sabbath is legislature. How do you think that came longer than I will admit. I think you should about and sabbatical derives from and about? Through a lot of different ways: learn what they are and what they do for don’t let any one tell you otherwise.” great negotiations, lobbying our Board and you, so let me begin with FACCC Trustees, but importantly, it did not come (Faculty Association of California It seems ironic that the FA would need to because the legislature all woke up one Community Colleges). I have chosen waste its time filing a grievance on an issue morning and thought, “Oh, we have been FACCC, because I just returned from a that has been well established and settled taking advantage of part-timers too long; very informative weekend at their yearly over the past twenty years. We have we should probably begin thinking parity.” convention. testimony from at least fifteen faculty FACCC did not cause that huge shift in members who state unequivocally that they

2100 Moorpark Avenue, San Jose, CA 95128–2799 • (408) 288–3779 • FAX (408) 295–7482 • [email protected] FACULTY ASSOCIATION, AFT 6157, NEWSLETTER Fall 02, Issue 3 – Monday, October 28, 2002 Page 3 of 4 applied in their sixth year and took their With the recent panic in our district over What this means is that, faculty cannot be sabbatical in the seventh. Please continue cancelled classes, our Board seems focused offered greater loading for larger classes, to provide the FA with information on trying to restore some of those lost and class size must fall within the class regarding your sabbaticals so we can put classes and stabilizing both campuses. It is requirements from the College Course all the data together. heartening that our Board members seem Description. aware that the widespread cancellation of classes created a public relations disaster Some faculty members have approached for us, utterly disregarding our students’ the FA to ask why we have taken this FINDING THE MONEY educational goals. While we share the position. The following are the reasons the With Help from FACCC Board’s interest in providing our students FA has taken a strong stand on this issue: By Rose Anna Higashi with the classes they need, we must FA Executive Board Member continue to remind Board members that the 1. This is a violation of Article 12.7.2 Negotiating Team Member, EVC Faculty Association has many other and 12.7.3 of the contract. ongoing priorities that also need to be 2. We are a community college. Small It’s always energizing to attend a FACCC addressed. class size is essential to the educating conference. Recently, Mark Newton, Bill of our students Jacobs and I traveled to Anaheim for the You can help the Faculty Association by 3. Your FA negotiating team is currently 2002 gathering of the Faculty Association communicating with Board members via bargaining for reduction in class sizes. of California Community Colleges. It’s telephone, e-mail, personal notes, taking It is hypocritical to sit at the comforting somehow to spend a weekend them to lunch and speaking at Board bargaining table and fight for smaller with other professors who face the same meetings. Let them know that we are tired class size, while other classes are daily challenges that plague our district— of the District’s ploy of claiming poverty being increased to 80-120 students trying to negotiate for decent pay and every time the faculty asks for a financial 4. Each time a faculty member agreed to working conditions for faculty, trying to commitment to our educational agenda. “double loading” a different agreement keep our district honest in terms of the 50% Volunteer to help analyze the budget to would be reached. Some faculty law requiring every district to spend at find or reallocate funds to support lower received twice the load for twice the least 50% of its income on instruction, and class sizes in developmental classes, size class; other faculty would only trying to educate our Board about the differential loading for English and ESL receive 10% or 20% increases in issues that most profoundly affect students composition classes and yes, even a well- loading. There was inequity in the and instructors. deserved cost of living salary increase for deals that were being made. our hard working faculty. One of the workshops I attended was called Based on this memo, all double loading for “Show Us the Money,” facilitated by John Please take the time to remind the Board increased class size will cease and desist McDowell from Los Angeles Trade- that the budget belongs to all of us, not just with the beginning of the spring semester, Technical College and Ann Clark from to the District Office, and that excellence in unless there is a signed agreement received City College of . They shared education should always be our first fiscal by Human Resources by October 30, 2002. some helpful tips on cracking open the priority. And then only classes previously agreed to mysteries of the budget, a particularly in the spring would be allowed to continue daunting task in our district. I’d like to pass Call the FA at ext 3779 if you would like with their double loading agreements. Any a few of their suggestions on to you: the email addresses of the Board members. questions please feel free to contact Barbara Hanfling at 3106. 1. Get copies of the CCFS 311 forms (a new form being used by community colleges to KNOW YOUR RIGHTS report their finances to the state); then compare those numbers to our district’s ARTICLE 17.2-Class Size and budget. Extra Loading for Larger Classes PART-TIME EQUITY 2. Train at least two faculty members to By Barbara Hanfling NEGOTIATIONS analyze the budget. We could certainly use FA Executive Director By Mark Newton some expertise in this area. FA President 3. Educate the Board about the faculty’s In one of our newsletters in the winter, the needs and priorities. Do not assume that FA noted that deals were being made Most full-time faculty can remember what the Board is aware of our priorities or that between faculty and deans regarding extra it was like to be a new part-time faculty the administration will explain them to the loading for larger classes. When this came member. I recall late nights trying to Board for us. 4. Educate the Board about common practices to the attention of the FA and the District, master some fairly complex material, of administrative budget officers for hiding we both agreed that this was a violation of developing lectures, labs and handouts, the money, such as overestimating the contract, Article 12.7. At the beginning grading papers, writing my first exams, and expenditures, underestimating revenues of the fall semester, Human Resources eventually worrying about how I could and putting funds in obscure categories in Director, Pauline Clarke put out a letter to deliver information to the students more the CCFS 311 forms such as “Other all deans telling them to discontinue any effectively. I often sought advice from the Outgo” and “Other Financing.” practice of double loading of classes. full-time faculty whom I admired, and was always glad to repay their kindnesses by

2100 Moorpark Avenue, San Jose, CA 95128–2799 • (408) 288–3779 • FAX (408) 295–7482 • [email protected] FACULTY ASSOCIATION, AFT 6157, NEWSLETTER Fall 02, Issue 3 – Monday, October 28, 2002 Page 4 of 4 doing them favors. I look back on my first tremendous burden on local negotiators. In pointless to make someone reinvent the three years of teaching as a rewarding time order to get the pay increase onto the wheel. Currently, the two sides just do not of tremendous growth, hard work, and fun. academic hourly salary schedule, the see eye to eye, possibly because once I also retain the memory of having to draw District and FA at SJECCD must agree on equity is achieved the administration will cash on my credit card to pay other bills… the proportion of a full-timer’s workload be allowed to spend any additional parity that a part-timer actually does (assuming a funds as they wish. That said the FA negotiating team is in the 100 percent load). The state has given midst of particularly important negotiations guidelines, models, and suggestions, but FA Opinion. 100% Parity Should be our on the subject of part-time equity, a plan they were unwilling to declare a number Goal. To the FA, it all seems a strange from lawmakers in Sacramento to pay statewide (e.g. 70, 80, 90 or 100 percent). argument. Parity is parity, not 28 percent adjunct faculty at pro rata rates (or parity). The model most prominently cited by the less. Here is what true parity looks like. Of course, we are having a very difficult state describes an instructional faculty load For every teaching activity there would be time convincing the administration that in this way: 15 hours lecture, 15 hours a one to one relationship; this would mean part-time faculty work so hard. preparation, 5 office hours, and 5 hours that part-timers teaching a three-hour professional responsibilities. (I know a lecture would be paid for a full office hour, Why equity for part-timers? Part-time bunch of you are screaming, “Who only not one-half an office hour, as they faculty teach a huge portion of the courses works 40 hours a week?” But, for currently are. (Students would obviously in this and every other community college tractability’s sake please take a deep breath benefit.) district in the state. The primary reason for and let that go for now.) In this case, this dependence on part-timers is that they adjunct faculty would differ from full- Consideration should also be given to the cost districts less than do full-time faculty. timers only in that the five hours of educational training an adjunct faculty has. When the legislators became concerned “professional responsibilities” are not There are four columns (MA plus various with abuse of non-tenure track faculty, they required of employees without contracts. (I units, and Doctorate) on the full-time enacted a 75:25 ratio. (Our district and know many part-timers are screaming that salary schedule, but only one on the part- many others treat this 75 percent full-time you have done a ton of such activities, and time lecturer or lab instructor’s salary faculty goal as an unattainable ambition, would do more if you actually were paid. schedule. Part-time faculty should be given not the prescribed target.) You too will have to breathe deeply for credit for years of experience in a way that now.) is parallel to the 11 steps on the full-time However, there was still concern at the salary schedule; they should be rewarded Capitol over two years ago when the The essence of this model is that part- for their years with us. Part-timers also statewide salary average for part-timers timers and full-timers spend the same could be hired to perform additional non- was around 42 percent of full-time hourly amount of time and energy on their teaching activities that full-time faculty pay. Subsequently, our state government students; at least one hour is spent don’t have enough time to get done and has taken some responsibility for making preparing and grading for every hour in that could be done admirably and up part of the gap in wages between part- class. Students then can reasonably expect competently by part timers. time and full-time faculty. A year ago, a quality education regardless of their Governor Davis approved a state budget instructor’s employment status. Adding up Surely the intent of the equity law and the that included $57 million in part-time the hours here, a part-timer would work intent of our bargaining is to make sure that equity funds; these monies were designated 35/40 or 87.5 percent of what the full-timer part-timers are paid comparably for work to help close the gap between the salary does (assuming a full load). If this model performed. We know that we are still short earned by full and part-time faculty. were enacted then the Academic Hourly of parity, short of fairness. The purpose of SJECCD received over $747,000 that the Salary Schedule would reflect a wage that identifying parity to rectify years of low FA and District eventually negotiated into is 87.5 percent that of a comparable full- pay for part timers and to help the state a 7.46 percent bonus paid for all work on time instructor. allocate future funding. the Academic-Hourly Salary Schedule. These funds remain in the state budget this District Opinion. District believes the year, so clearly Sacramento is serious parity number to be about 72 percent for about helping part-time faculty. In the part-time instructional faculty because the future, when the state budget mess is a District says that part timers do not have to ATTACHED IS YOUR NEW memory, even more funds can be allocated prepare as much as full-time faculty; stated FACULTY ASSOCIATION, to help achieve equity. differently, District believes that full-timers review books, share their course syllabi AFT 6157 MEMBERSHIP So, how many part-timers make up a full- and exams with part-timers, etcetera -- CARD timer? Ever wonder how many part-time making part timers jobs easier. We were faculty it would take to replace a full-time outrages by this assessment! We tried to faculty member? A variation on this explain that curriculum development was Sign it and carry it in your wallet. The question (What is the definition of part- part of professional duties. We tried to AFT benefits number is (800) 238-1133 time equity?) is actually a key issue in explain that full-time faculty often share x8643 or www.aftplus.org current negotiations. You see the materials with other full-timers as a matter legislators in Sacramento have placed a of courtesy and collegiality, and that it is -end

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