by Leonardo Rodriguez January 20, 2020 In a shocking development on this case, first reported by SDAFA on January 26, 2018 (https://www.sdafa.org/city-language-adjuncts/), on January 13, 2020, the Department of Justice issued a “right to sue” letter to Adjunct Spanish Professor Salvador Gonzalez, one of four adjunct professors in the Languages Department who, over the […]
Adjunct Debt Relief
From Jim Mahler: Dear Colleagues, I am writing to request that you take a few minutes to write a letter of support for Assembly Bill 463 – the CFT-sponsored community college part-time faculty student debt bill. The bill is currently on the governor’s desk. We need as many letters as possible to encourage the governor to […]
CPFA Response to Jim Mahler’s email regarding AB-591 and the 67% PT load limit
Last month, SDAFA Vice Chair David Milroy, who is also Director of Administration for the California Part-time Faculty Association (CPFA), sent out a survey to adjuncts in San Diego County regarding raising the statutory limit on teaching load. His email briefly detailed the history of how CPFA had worked on the 2007/8 bill that raised […]
Open Letter to SDCCD Faculty
[SDAFA response to discussion on the SDCCD district email list] Fellow faculty members, We’ve had quite a beginning to this conversation about our next contract. Unfortunately, some have suggested that adjuncts don’t have enough “skin in the game” and a divisive tone has emerged that pits adjuncts against full-time faculty. There is a […]
Democratize the Bargaining Committee
SDAFA presented the following resolution at the AFT Guid Meeting on October 5, 2017: Resolution to Adjust the AFT Guild Bargaining Committee for the SDCCD Faculty CBA to Be More Representative of and Open to the Membership Whereas the motto of the AFT Guild is “An Open, Active, Vital, Membership-Driven Organization”; Whereas of the approximately […]
Proposed SDCCD Contract: Add Your Comments
Jim Mahler just sunshined an amazing new contract bargaining agreement (CBA) for the San Diego Community College District (SDCCD), which will effect the working conditions of approximately 2,000 adjuncts from Mesa, City, Miramar, and the Continuing Education. Mahler likes to split up negotiations between economic and non-economic bargaining issues, and although this round is “non-economic” […]