SALARY

Current Contract: Effective January 2000: 10% increase. (This amount is in the salary base, i.e., a salary schedule increase). Effective January 2001: 5.17 increase (This reflects COLA, i.e., the state- approved cost of living adjustment increase + 1% and is also in the base). Effective Fall 2001-2002: Automatic COLA in the base (state cost of living adjustment increase to be determined by the state).

PART-TIME FACULTY (PTF) OFFICE HOURS

Prior Contract: No part-time faculty paid for office hours.

Current Contract Effective Fall 2000: One paid office hour per week for PT faculty with at least 40% English and ESL composition course assignments.

ASSOCIATE FACULTY Prior Contract: Eligibility by convoluted nomination.

Current Contract: Effective Fall 2001: Eight consecutive semesters of service with satisfactory evaluations (retroactive to Fall 1997). One year contract for Fall and Spring.

DEPARTMENT CHAIRS Prior Contract: Nonreflective of relevant duties.

Current Contract: 205-day assignment paid 107.5% of the standard salary schedule, with 7.5% additional base pay for chair duties. Clarification regarding stipend payment, reassignment, and assistants. On going stipends committee commitment.

DEPARTMENTAL FACULTY LEADERS Prior Contract: No contract provisions.

Current Contract: Effective January 2000: Two departmental faculty leaders established for Nursing and Library. Clarification of duties and responsibilities. Nursing compensation effective spring 2000 for additional responsibilities. Library Department leader compensation effective spring

1999 for additional responsibilities. Clarification regarding stipend payment, reassignments, and assistants.

100% COORDINATORS Prior Contract: No contract provisions.

Current Contract Effective Summer 2000: Three coordinator positions clarified in Health Services, Psychological Services and Disabled Services. Clarification regarding stipend payment, reassignments, and assistants.

ADDED RESPONSIBILITY STIPENDS/REASSIGNMENTS

Prior Contract: Not in contract.

Current Contract: Reassigned time and stipends defined. Joint District/Faculty committee to clarify stipends, intersession tasks and assignments. Reassigned time maximum at 15 lecture hour equivalents (LHE).

WORKING CONDITIONS

Prior Contract: No personnel file examination provision.

Current Contract: District and Association semesterly meetings to resolve facilities, equipment, and supplies issues concerning faculty. No parking fee increase without the Association's written agreement. Right to examine personnel file provision.

LEAVES

Prior Contract: No compelling personal importance leave provision.

Current Contract: Clarification concerning family leave, child care leave and personal necessity. Compelling personal importance provision for personal necessity leave.

DOMESTIC PARTNER BENEFITS

Prior Contract: None

Current Contract: Health, dental and vision benefits for domestic partners of full-time faculty. This is now a new state law.

By Ken Mason

FACULTY ASSOCIATION RIGHTS

Current Contract: Reassigned time for Faculty Association business increased to 1.4 FTE. During negotiations reassigned time increased to 2.0 FTE.

LOAD

Prior Contract: Load factors nonreflective of relevant discipline-by-discipline course assignments.

Current Contract: Load factor structure adjusted to better reflect relevant discipline-by-discipline course assignments. Ongoing commitment to load adjustment.

The above contract is one that all parties involved can be proud of. The achievement of this contract is not and should not be viewed solely as faculty gains. When faculty are regarded and compensated in a fair and equitable manner, the college reaps the rewards. There is, after all, one college and we are recipients of our own actions.

On a personal note, the unenviable task of satisfying all people at all times fell to Chief Negotiator Teri Bernstein. I wish to acknowledge the debt owed to Teri for her service to the college at great academic and personal cost. All members of the Faculty Association should be commended for their fine work. However, there never was a day that I did not encounter Teri at college, home or in Sacramento hard at work on faculty business. I single her out primarily due to my observations of one who has worked tirelessly to do what she thought was best for the faculty.