$500 Remote Work Stipend Approved for All SDCCD Employees!

From: Jim Mahler <aftjim@mac.com>Sent: Friday, April 9, 2021 3:25 PMSubject: $500 Remote Work Stipend Approved for All SDCCD Employees! Dear SDCCD AFT Guild Members, I am pleased to report that yesterday we were able to finalize our negotiations with the District for a “remote work” stipend in the amount of a one-time $500 payment to all SDCCD employees.  (NANC employees whose gross […]

SDCCD POA has been extended to December 31, 2022

Dear SDCCD Adjunct Faculty and Department/Program Chairs, I’m pleased to report that we have reached agreement with the District on extending the temporary contract language we negotiated last year regarding maintenance of POA status throughout the pandemic. Specifically, what this means is: 1) Adjunct faculty who were not given assignments or had their assignments reduced […]

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 […]

SDCCD Salary Schedule Increases for 2019

AFT Guild President Jim Mahler today sent out the announcement below regarding economic issues for next year along with the attached salary schedules.  Of note is that Adjunct Faculty will receive 0.84% increases and Contract Faculty will receive 0.50% increases.  That’s right, folks, 4/5’s of a percent for Adjuncts and 1/2 of a percent for Contract.  […]

Equal Protection for Adjuncts under the Contract

I just posted this to the AFT Guild Google Group, addressed to Ian Duckles with the request that he share this with the other members of the Negotiating Committee. Equal Protection for Adjuncts under the Contract Our legal system is built on one basic concept: Equal Protection under the law. I ask the Negotiating Committee […]

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 […]