RSVP now for essential updates from your bargaining team this Friday May 7 at 9am.

At the beginning of March, 163 full-time faculty received pink slips, and it quickly became apparent over 500 part-time jobs were also at risk. We’ve been facing a 65% cut to our faculty and our college. At your union Member Meeting in March, we collectively laid out a campaign to first and foremost protect our jobs and our classes. For the past two months, we have all organized, lobbied, and bargained our hearts out. Because of this work, we have Supervisors fighting to pass a funding bill as we speak. The tough news is that this will not be done in time before the Trustees meet next Monday to decide on layoffs and cuts. However, the pressure we’ve built has given our bargaining team power to fight many of the proposed cuts to our college.

Our bargaining team is hoping to have a tentative agreement with the district by the end of this week. Your bargaining team is hopeful that they can stop every single one of those 163 Pink Slipped faculty members and many part-time faculty from being laid off. However, this will be possible if we collectively agree to temporary and progressive concessions on salaries in order to save these jobs.

Please join this emergency member meeting at 9am on Friday 5/7 this week where your bargaining team will explain any tentative agreement that they have won in this fight to save our jobs, our classes, and our college.