Camden County College Adjunct Faculty Federation

AFT 4965

   Contract Extension Ratified

Both the union and the college ratified the CCCAFF/CCC contract extension. The members who attended the six ratification meetings held on the three campuses the week of February 13-16 unanimously ratified the extension.

The Board of Trustees, for their part, ratified the contract at their March meeting. The contract establishes a new pay scale, and also includes language on the parking settlement and on bumping.

 The extension increased the already negotiated pay for the remainder of the old contract to $575/contact hour in Fall 2006 and to $580 in Spring 2007 and $600 in Fall 2007. At the end of the extension in Fall 2009, pay will have reached $650/contact hour; this is $1950 for a three-credit course.

 The Camden parking grievance was settled, and this language is included in the extension. Adjuncts will be paying less than $1/day in pre-tax dollars using the new plan.

 New ground was broken in a contract addition that limits bumping of 20 and 30 semester adjuncts (“gold” and “silver” adjuncts) during the week preceding the beginning of classes. These adjuncts may still be bumped because of lack of enrollment/cancellation of classes and for full-time faculty to make load. They may not be bumped during this week, however, for full-time faculty to make overload. This is also the case during interim and summer classes as these are, except in rare instances, primarily overload classes.

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Pro-rata bill in Assembly

 A1207, a bill requiring public institutions of higher education to prorate salary for part-time faculty appointments based on salary for comparable full-time positions, was introduced in the NJ State Assembly and referred to the Assembly Higher Education Committee.

 The bill asks for immediate recalculation of adjunct remuneration upon passage of the bill. A bill providing the funds for the change in salary structure, however, does not accompany the bill, nor does it define how pro-rata pay is to be calculated. Nonetheless, the bill does approve the concept of pro-rata pay.

 Adjuncts can endorse the bill by notifying their legislative representatives.

Response to budget cuts

 

 As Governor Corzine travels throughout the state preaching the doom and gloom of fiscal responsibility, AFT is carefully watching how proposed cuts will affect the community colleges and the AFT unions.

The New Jersey State Federation of Teachers (NJSFT) is planning several ways of responding to these cuts whether they affect the amount of money for community colleges or the pensions for adjuncts.

 The CCCAFF will keep you up to date about what is afoot and what you can do about it. Watch for email alerts.