[Faculty] Fwd: CFA Special Headlines August 26, 2013 {Disarmed}

[Allen Plotkin]

FYI.
Allen

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On August 23, 2013, CFA and CSU management reached an agreement on reopener
bargaining and the distribution of funds set aside by the Chancellor for
salary increases.  Of the $125 .1 million budget augmentation due to the
passage of Prop 30, the Chancellor set aside $38 million for
compensation.Pending approval by CFA’s Board of Directors, Unit 3 members
will share a total of $19,234,400.

Given the modest size of this compensation pool and the magnitude of the
need among our faculty we thought it best, this one time, to distribute the
money as a flat dollar amount General Salary Increase (GSI) instead of as a
percentage. The goal is to get at least some money into every faculty
member’s base salary. We estimate that the raise will be approximately $960
for full time faculty and pro rata based on time base for part time
faculty. Our raises will be retroactive to July 1 and we expect that they
will be distributed before December 1.  A Q&A on this reopener agreement
will be available by the end of the week. If you have any immediate
questions please contact
bargainingideas at calfac.org<bargainingideas at calfac.org?subject=Reopener%20Bargaining>
with the subject line “Reopener Bargaining.”

In addition to negotiating over salary, the administration made several
proposals designed to increase faculty contributions for healthcare. CFA
rejected these proposals and made it clear that, given the modest size of
the compensation pool and the number of years since faculty have received
raises, any discussion of increasing health care contributions was
inappropriate at this time.

CFA sees these modest increases along with the payment of Equity Year Two
as a small down payment on long-overdue pay raises for our faculty. Now,
with reopeners behind us, we must turn our attention to preparing for our
next contract.

Although the current contract will expire on June 30, 2014, it is our
intention to begin bargaining well before this date.  Bargaining surveys
will be available to you online or in hard copy by mid-September.  Your
participation in the survey will send a message to the administration that
faculty will be paying very close attention to negotiations; the results of
these surveys will help the bargaining committee develop its contract
priorities.

It is our intention to sunshine our successor bargaining contract proposals
in the fall so that we can begin negotiations before the first of the
year.  When you receive your contract development survey, be sure to fill
it out and let your voice be heard.

In union,
Lillian Taiz, CFA President
Andy Merrifield, Chair – CFA Bargaining Team

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