Minutes of
General Membership/Executive Committee Meeting
May 10, 2006 at
Members Present: Joaquin Rivera, Katharine Harer,
Guests: Poh Kim Lim, Elizabeth Terzakis
The Meeting was called to order at 2:25
Ernie Rodriguez facilitated the meeting
Minutes were approved with minor corrections.
NON-AGENDA ITEMS
A “Take Back Mothers Day” event will be in lobby of the main theatre on May 11 from 12:30-2:00. The event will present poets, musicians and a mother of an Iraqi war veteran in a celebration of peace.
NEGOTIATIONS REPORT - Katharine Harer and Joaquin Rivera
The Board was not aware of the negotiations impasse but they will discuss it at tonight’s Board Meeting. If the Board Meeting doesn’t go well, it was proposed that as many EC members possible attend the next Board Meeting on May 17th.
The district has hired new mediator Anne Song Hill to help
with negotiations. She will not be able to meet until May 25 which means
negotiations will stretch into the summer. Dan Kaplan requested that each
person send their summer availability schedule and contact information in the
event we need to meet and ratify the contract before presenting it to faculty
and staff. It is possible that the
ballots may be mailed out during the summer. On the bright side, the May revise
in
The EC received 51 responses on the AFT bulletin regarding negotiations. Most were quite supportive and wanted the union to continue negotiating. Most felt that the District’s offer for the fourth year is not fair.
CO-PRESIDENTS’ REPORT - Joaquin Rivera and Katharine Harer
A letter has been drafted in response to Rick Ambrose and Jacqueline Gamelin’s letter supporting the hiring of an outside negotiator. The AFT response letter will be published in the May Advocate, and it was suggested that we could also put AFT’s official response on the AFT website
Joaquin Rivera distributed a chart which compares the
salaries of the community colleges of the Bay 10.
AFT LEADERSHIP TRAINING RETREAT - Ernie Rodriguez
Ernie Rodriguez spoke to Julian Menard, a leadership training specialist on how she can assist in developing our leadership potential. Ms. Menard felt that this is an important time to have a retreat. She suggested a weekend retreat together, but the entire organization needs to be on board. She would lead us through the process free of charge but would only extend her services to those really interested in leadership. A motion was approved to have a retreat in late August, when school has started. Ernie will contact Julian as to her availability.
AFT RELEASE TIME - Joaquin Rivera
Joaquin distributed a handout which indicated the amount of release time for various positions. Release time is a good way to bring in more needed people for the next generation of EC members. A motion was approved to ratify the allocation model with one change, giving the Vice President 3 hours in Spring 2007 along with the already allocated 3 hours in Fall 2006.
NOMINATIONS FOR THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
President: Ernie Rodriguez
Vice President: Teeka James & Katharine Harer
Secretary: Alma Cervantes
Treasurer: Dave Danielson
Delegates to CFT Convention: (vote for up to 25)
|
Joaquin Rivera Chip
Katharine Harer John Kirk Kathleen Feinblum Dan Kaplan Karen Olesen Rick Hough |
Monica Malamud Teeka James Dennis Clare Dean Chowenhill Dietra Prater Slack Ernie Rodriguez |
Delegates to the AFT Convention (vote for up to 12)
Katharine Harer
Dan Kaplan
Joaquin Rivera
Ernie Rodriguez
Delegates
to
Virginia Padrone
Joaquin
Rivera
Rick Hough
Katharine Harer
Karen Olesen
Dan Kaplan
Chapter Chair
CSM – Yaping Li and Ron Brown
Skyline – Chip
Executive Committee Representative
CSM- Anne
Skyline-Nina Floro
Part-timer Representative
CSM – Sandra Raeber and Larry Walker
Skyline – Dietra Prater Slack and Joan Connors
CAMPUS REPORTS
CSM - Yaping Li. A faculty member who got unsatisfactory review, will appeal. The instructor only found out her tenure was denied when he found out her name had been taken off the fall schedule.
Skyline - Nina Floro. No report
PENDING GRIEVANCES - John Kirk
Still pending is the grievance regarding the nursing instructor who was not rehired because she failed two nursing students. The District argued that she lost her seniority because she had a break in service of more than 3 semesters when she went from part-time, to full time for two years, then part time again.
An instructor lost his seniority to a less senior instructor with only a B.A. degree. The Dean argued that the grievant lost his seniority when the program went on hiatus.
A retired instructor at Skyline on a post-retirement contract was told by her Dean that he couldn’t offer her 9 FLCS for her second year of post-retirement because she was too expensive and he didn’t have the classes for her. According to contract, a dean cannot negotiate individually with a faculty member over items in the contract.
BUDGET REPORT - John Kirk
No are no more budget meetings for the rest of the semester. COLA currently is 4.30% and may increase with the upcoming May revise.
SHARED GOVERNANCE COUNCIL REPORT - Katharine Harer
Katharine didn’t attend the last meeting and cannot attend the next meeting on Monday 15th. No one volunteered to sub.
RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF IMMIGRATION RIGHTS - Elizabeth Terzakis
Members of the EC took issue on some of the items. The feeling was, we wanted to support the resolution but wanted more substantive discussion. A motion was been made to make the resolution official as opposed considering it a draft copy. A straw vote to support/reject the resolution broke down as follows: Ayes - 3; Nays - 3; Abstain - 8. The resolution wasn’t carried and didn’t pass, but has been tabled for further discussion.
PEER EVALUATION -
The meeting was adjourned at 4:35.
Respectfully submitted,
Kathleen Feinblum
AFT 1493 Executive Committee Minutes