In AFT President Randi Weingarten’s latest New York Times  column, she describes what it is exactly that unions do. Though unions are the most popular they have been in decades, anti-union sentiment still thrives in red states and across the nation. “Several years ago, The Atlantic ran a story whose headline made even me, a labor leader, scratch my head: ‘Union Membership: Very Sexy,’” Weingarten writes in the column. “The gist was that higher wages, health benefits and job security—all associated with union membership—boost one’s chances of getting married. Belonging to a union doesn’t actually guarantee happily ever after, but it does help working people have a better life in the here and now.” Click through to read the full column.

Hello all you awesome and essential fellow part-time faculty! 

       We all hope your semester is going great! Can you believe we are in week ten already!  

       We didn’t need to send out ballots for our election this year because we only had one person nominated for each position. The election results were as follows:  

• 1st VP: Dorothy Reina 
• Treasurer: Josh Briggs 
• VP at Large: Lauren Golder 
• VP at Large: Valerie Morales 

We are so happy that Valerie Morales is on our board now! She is a member of the counseling department, so we are so glad to have a voice from that department on our board. 

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MOU BREAKDOWN

Tentative Agreement - 2020

Hello Fellow Part-time Teachers!

After over six months of meeting and negotiating, we have a tentative agreement for you to consider and have attached it here! We were able to achieve some very notable changes to our contract, and these are the highlights:

• Article 1.4 – this contract will be in force until June of 2021. We decided to extend the contract to make sure we are not adversely affected from the loss of revenue because of the extended campus closures.
• Article 6.4.3 – This change made the language about priority lists clearer. If the district does not do its