Negotiations for a new AFT/District contract continue this semester. The bargaining teams are rewriting the leave and evaluation provisions of the agreement for clarity and to address deficiencies in procedures.
AFT is increasingly concerned about the stagnation and decline of faculty compensation and a decline in our fair share of CCSF’s salary and benefit budget pie. Over the last several years the proportion of total salary and benefit compensation received by faculty has declined relative to the college as a whole. This is particularly troubling at a time when there is no state COLA to fund a significant across-the-board salary increase and when there are significant increases in health benefit premiums being scheduled by the Health Service System. The existing contract calls for a faculty salary structure that maintains faculty salaries above the median for the Bay Ten community college districts, but if recent trends continue, the CCSF faculty salary schedule will likely decline relative to the median, and the share of district compensation going to faculty will also decline. We expect the District to agree to future changes to faculty compensation to address this situation.