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 […]
SDCCD CBA: We did it!
Jim Mahler released his tentative Contract Bargaining Agreement (CBA) for the San Diego Community College District (SDCCD), and it’s an overall win for adjuncts! No more Chairs and Deans trying to scare us out of applying for job security (PoA); automatic Our PoA wait-time goes down from 8 semesters back to 6 The ability to […]
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 […]
WEP is a bad feature of Social Security. Here are people trying to over throw it.
Washington, D.C. – This week (September 28, 2018) House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) introduced H.R. 6933, the Equal Treatment of Public Servants Act of 2018. This legislation finally gets rid of Social Security’s Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and replaces it with a new formula that […]
FACCC call to action on AB 310, paid office hour reporting
Hello FACCCtivists, Your advocacy is needed. Please respond to this call for action and forward this email to your networks. FACCC-sponsored AB 310 (Medina), which would require the provision of paid part-time faculty office hours to be reported on local community college districts’ websites, is currently sitting in the suspense file of the Senate […]
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 […]