by Karl Ewald As you’ve probably figured out, I’m a big picture guy and my strategy has almost always included trying to reach outside my designated bounds to try to change the context in which […]
by CCFT New moms and dads can now use up to 12 weeks of paid sick leave to bond with a new child. This applies to biological parents within the first year of her or […]
by Karl Ewald For me, the tail end of any process is usually paired with a healthy dose of reflection. As the negotiations process drew to a close, I spent a lot of time thinking […]
CCFT and the District remain in negotiations regarding salary and have agreed to extend the current Contract Agreement through December 15, 2016. As mentioned in the September update, CCFT and the District have already […]
Maya Bendotoff, CCFT Director Compensation for 2016 Salary Over the past decade, full-time salaries have fallen significantly in comparison with salaries in other Districts across the state. Much of the relative drop actually happened prior to […]
Karl Ewald, CCFT Treasurer and Negotiations Team While there is no specific contractual definition of the total time an adjunct unit member spends for 1 teaching unit, the historical breakdown of a teaching unit generally […]
Dan Rothwell The contract negotiations are proceeding about as fast as a turtle on tranquilizers. We have spent many hours planning the schedule and agenda for negotiations without actually negotiating about substantive issues. As your […]
Dan Rothwell “Catastrophizing” is defined by psychologist John Grohol on the PsychCentral blogging site as “an irrational thought that something is far worse than it actually is.” Such is the case when the budget is […]
Conrad Scott-Curtis Original Assumptions Projected a Deficit of $13 Million by 2018-19; New Assumptions Project a Deficit of $3 Million by the Same Year; CCFT Encouraged by New Opening in Dialogue; CCFT Request for […]
Debra Spencer A Proposal For almost 30 years I was adjunct faculty here. For the last 10 years I’ve been contract faculty. That’s nearly 40 years of discussing and lamenting over the two-tier system, saying […]
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