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SRJC Administrators lobby against Adjuncts in Sacramento

First the good news (and don't we need some) -- AB 420 passed the State Assembly and was signed into law by the Governor.

Now the bad...It's just a shadow of its former self. Equal pay for equal work has been shelved for further study. Gov. Davis says he is "supportive of improved working conditions for part-time faculty," but has appropriated only $500,000 for health benefits.

Now the really bad news....SRJC is on a list of those organizations who actively opposed passage of this bill. What "opposition" the administration provided is at this point unknown. Does AFA or the Academic Senate know of this? If they didn't, why didn't they? And if they did....

We need to get to the bottom of this. Surely, this is something upon which full-time and part-time instructors can agree. Require AFA and the Academic Senate to investigate this important matter. Adjuncts have been told that their poor treatment was due to the economy or the "system." And now we discover that our own administration has been actively lobbying against our interests?

For another perspective as to why it matters what our administrators do at the State level, click on the following.

Please e-mail the editor if you have any pertinent information. And stay tuned......

*****UPDATE*****



A2K Week at SRJC and around the state

Look for an information table in front of the Co-op near the fountain manned by the usual suspects to begin the educational process of getting the word out to students and faculty alike. In addition........

Thursday. April 6th Faculty Lounge/Doyle Student Center 4:00-5:30
a discussion with California State Assembly representatives:
Patricia Wiggins (1st District)
Virginia Strom-Martin (7th District)

Follow-up Action: SRJC Board of Trustees Meeting Tues., April 11th 4:00 Pedroncelli Center
discussion of SRJC administration's hostile lobbying against Adjunct bills in Sacramento.

PART-TIME FACULTY EQUITY WEEK GETS UNDER WAY; BIRD FLIES NORTH
Following are known appearances of the Freeway Flyer, the hoarse and tattered bird in academic gown and mortarboard, for later this week:
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA:
Wednesday April 5: Los Angeles Valley College (Van Nuys), 9:30-10:30am in the quad Glendale College main campus (Glendale), 11:00-noon Glendale College, Adult Community Training Center (1122 E. Garfield, Glendale), 12:30-1:30pm
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA:
Wednesday April 5: San Jose City College, 4:30pm De Anza College (Cupertino), 4:00 pm Thursday April 6:   De Anza College (Cupertino), 11:30am
Meanwhile, part-time faculty at Santa Rosa Junior College will honor their Statue to the Unknown Adjunct and meet with local legislators in the staff lounge Thursday April 6, 4-5:30pm.

FLIGHT WEARY BIRD WILL TAKE TRAIN TO SACRAMENTO Saturday April 8:
The feathery creature has reservations on Amtrak Saturday, leaving San Jose at 7:34am and arriving in Sacramento at 10:49am where it will make an appearance at the CATESOL conference being held at the Hyatt Hotel and Convention Center. If anyone cares to join in the migration from San Jose to Sacramento, please contact Mary Ellen Goodwin (megspla ce@earthlink.net) for details.
Part-time Faculty Equity Week is a public education project of the Action 2000 Coalition, calling attention to the fact that the state's 30,000 part-time community college instructors receive, on average, only 37% of the salary received by full-time instructors for an equivalent teaching load. Part-time faculty will be collecting signatures on petitions addressed to Governor Gray Davis, Chancellor Tom Nussbaum, and state legislators asking for budget increases in support of part-time faculty equity. "Part-time faculty must be paid equally proportionate to their teaching load. Equal pay for equal work is not just a slogan â€" it is a minimum standard we must meet," says Ron Reel, Vice President of the Community College Association of the California Teachers Association. Other institutional members of the coalition are CCCI (California Community College Independents), CFT (California Federation of Teachers), CPFA (California Part-time Faculty Association), FACCC (Faculty Association of California Community Colleges), and CWA (Communications Workers of America).
Community email addresses:
Post message: CCC-Pa rtTime@onelist.com
Subscribe:CCC-PartTime-subscribe@onelist.com
Unsubscribe:CCC-PartTime-unsubscribe@onelist.com
Shortcut URL to this page:http://www.onelist.com/community/CCC- PartTime

The Action 2000 coalition website announcing Part-time Faculty Equity Week APRIL 3-7, 2000 is http://home .igc.org/~tbone. It is partially up and still undergoing construction today. I'd also like to take this opportunity to suggest to those just getting involved in statewide part-time faculty activism that they join CPFA (a mere $20 per year) and get on the CPFA email listserv. An application form is available at the website, www.cpfa.org. A lot of discussion goes on on the CPFA listserv (elchorro-list@jumbo.surfari.net) that doesn't get posted to this CCC-part-time listserv for various reasons. - Sandy Baringer, Action 2000 press release coordinator

For another website announcing the A2K event April 3-7,2000, click here:http ://www.cpfa.org/a2kevent.html

News at the Legislature

Tue, 28 Mar 2000
The Assembly Higher Education Committee approved AB 2434 (Wildman) on a close vote to grant community college part-time faculty seniority and rehire rights.
AB 2434 is co-sponsored by FACCC, CFT/CCC, and CTA/CCA. The administration organizations and Chancellor's Office have once again come out opposed to this equity legislation and letters are needed IMMEDIATELY to the Assembly Appropriations Committee requesting their support.

Write to members of the Appropriations committee who are in your district: Assembly Appropriations Committee (21)
 
Name                       Phone       Room   
Carol Migden (Chair)        319-2013   2114   
San Francisco

Bill Campbell (Vice Chair)  319-2071   3098 
Rancho Santiago, Saddleback

Dick Ackerman               319-2072   4167   
Cypress, Fullerton 

Roy Ashburn                 319-2032   4158   
Kern, Sequoias

Marilyn C. Brewer           319-2070   6031   
Coast, Saddleback 

Gil Cedillo                 319-2046   5016   
Los Angeles

Susan Davis                 319-2076   2013   
San Diego

Robert M. Hertzberg         319-2040   320   
Los Angeles

Sheila Kuehl                319-2041   3013   
Los Angeles, Santa Monica 

Abel Maldonado              319-2033   4017   
Allan Hancock Joint, San Luis
Obispo County 

Lou Papan                   319-2019   3173   
San Mateo County 

Gloria Romero               319-2049   2117   
Los Angeles

George Runner               319-2036   6027   
College of the Canyons 

Kevin Shelley               319-2012   3160   
San Francisco

Darrell S. Steinberg        319-2009   2176   
Los Rios

Helen Thomson               319-2008   4140   
Los Rios, San Joaquin Delta,
Solano County, Yuba 

Herb Wesson                 319-2047   2179   
Los Angeles

Pat Wiggins                 319-2007   
3013 
Napa Valley, Solano County,
Sonoma County 

Roderick Wright             319-2048   6012   
Los Angeles

Charlene Zettel             319-2075   4162   
Grossmont-Cuyamaca,
Palomar 

Senate Appropriations Committee (13) 
Name                         Phone     Room 
Patrick Johnston (Chair)    445-2407   5066 
Los Rios, San Joaquin
Delta 

Tim Leslie (Vice Chair)     445-5788   4081   
Butte-Glenn, Feather River, Lake Tahoe, 
Lassen, Los Rios, Sierra Joint, Yosemite, 
Yuba 

Deirdre Alpert               445-3952   5114 
San Diego, Southwestern 

Debra Bowen                  445-5953   4040 
Compton, El Camino, Long Beach, Los
Angeles 

John Burton                  445-1412  
 205   
Marin, San Francisco 

Martha Escutia               327-8315   5064 
Cerritos, Los Angeles, Rio
Hondo 

Ross Johnson                 445-4961   305   
Coast, North Orange County, Rancho 
Santiago, Saddleback, South Orange County 

Betty Karnette               445-6447   3086 
Cerritos, Long Beach, Los Angeles 

David Kelley                 445-5581   3082 
Desert, Grossmont-Cuyamaca,
Imperial 

Bruce McPherson              445-5843   3076 
Cabrillo, Hartnell, Monterey-Peninsula
Jose-Evergreen 

Richard Mountjoy             445-2848   4052 
Cerritos, Citrus, Mt. San
Antonio, Pasadena Area 

Don Perata                   445-6577   4061 
Contra Costa, Peralta 

John Vasconcellos            445-9740   4074 
Foothill-DeAnza, San
Jose-Evergreen, West Valley-Mission