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December 2003, Volume 18, Issue 2 - Equity Money Set For This Year Filing A Grievance Over Last Year PDF Print E-mail
By Lantz Simpson

    After months of needless delay, the District has finally agreed to how the equity funds for part-time faculty will be distributed this year.  The funds will be distributed across the board on all part-time teaching salary schedules at a rate of an additional 9.67%.  The percentage is about two points higher than last year because of the huge numbers of section cuts for this year.  Non-teaching part-time faculty do not receive any equity funds because their hourly pay rate is already more than pro rata.

    Since there have been three pay periods already this fall, the equity funds will be paid to eligible part-time faculty by (1) supplemental checks to cover previous pay periods that had not included equity funds and (2) regular pay checks in the future that will include the equity funds.

    In the meantime, the Faculty Association has filed a grievance over the distribution of last year’s equity funds.  When the District cut 300 part-time sections last spring, a surplus of $117,000 in equity funds was created.  The FA demanded to bargain for a redistribution of the surplus to the remaining part-time faculty from last spring, but the District claimed that the equity fund had been used up by payroll taxes!

    The FA believes that such a claim by the District is a violation of both the collective bargaining agreement and state law.  Article 8 of the collective bargaining agreement clearly states that all of the equity money must be applied to the salary schedules.  In addition, the budget language passed by the legislature clearly states that all equity funds must go towards closing the pay gap between full-time and part-time faculty.

    Districts all over the state have been playing games with the equity fund and now Santa Monica College has joined the list.
  		 

 

 

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