According to our contract, this economic re-opener must be limited to economics (e.g. salary, etc.) and up to three non-economic issues per party.

The College has presented a proposal that:

* Modifies 29 articles of our contract (some with non-substantive changes);
* Includes approximately 14 distinct non-economic issues;
* Modifies or eliminates 13 MOAs;
* Provides an economic offer of 1.5% COLAs;
* Adds one paid work day for contracted faculty but no additional inservice/meeting hours for part-time faculty; and

* Pays for economics and appears to produce a net reduction in total faculty compensation and benefits expenses for the College by:

* Extracting significant workload increases;
*Making 45 TLCs/credits a minimum instead of a maximum for all full-time faculty (except for Advanced Technology and Aviation Maintenance which would maintain a 51 TLC requirement);
* Making overloads mandatory for full-time faculty who do not have assignments of 45 TLCs/credits (the majority of faculty) with most full-time faculty assigned one or more additional courses;
* Paying only part of the overload course, resulting in effective salary rates well below the 85% overload rate and below part-time salary rates;
* Removing class sizes from the contract;
* Removing all other workload parameters and limitations (e.g. number of sections, number of preps, total number of students);
* Increasing the number of courses the majority of full-time faculty teach;
* Removing compensation for part-time faculty to complete required assessment activities;
* Setting the TLC factor for lecture-lab at .762, increasing workload for contracted faculty and decreasing compensation for part-time faculty in several departments;
* Allowing classes to be assigned up to double the “established” but no longer documented class size with stipends for extra large classes based on end of fourth week enrollment;
* Displacing part-time faculty from work, resulting in substantial layoffs at a time when we have already lost 20% of our part-time faculty; and
* Also resulting in reduced numbers of full-time faculty in future years.

Among other changes, the College also proposes:

*Removing all contract language that refers to an inflation index used to ensure salaries are not eroded by inflation over time;
*Providing an additional 0.5% COLA to part-time faculty only if PT faculty loads are increased to 0.75 FTE, resulting in job loss for approximately 12.5% of part-time faculty at times of enrollment decline or stagnation;
* Increasing maximum TLC/credit load for full-time faculty to 18.5 TLCs/credits per term;
* Allowing full-time faculty to teach 0.5 FTE overloads (after mandatory overloads paid effectively well below regular overload rates) before part-time faculty with seniority receive assignments during the academic year;
* Increasing assigned workload hours for non-instructional faculty (e.g. counselors);
* Removing protections against class cancellations;
* Removing the Workload Taskforce Findings MOA (just mutually agreed less than 2 years ago after six years of joint LCC-LCCEA work);
* Removing the Assignment Rights / Assignment Order MOA;
* Removing the Distance Learning MOA; and
* Modifying Academic Program Review to reduce the role of faculty in determining committee membership within the program as well as some faculty roles on APROC.