City College and AFT 2121 Secure Agreement to Expand Healthcare Coverage for Faculty
Part-time faculty can now access medical insurance and purchase City College plans if ineligible for college-paid coverage.
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Resolutions to Recall Laid Off Employees Are Stalled
Resolutions to recall all laid off faculty from 2022 were presented to the board budget and audit committee, but were quickly stalled. The absent author of the resolutions and policy confusion compiled to a stalemate and the resolutions are now on pause.
Read more39 Months of Purgatory: Will City College rehire laid off faculty in impacted departments?
In the fiscal year 2021-2022, both faculty and classified workers received “pink slips” as notice of layoff. As departments struggle to maintain certificates, no positions will be reinstated for the foreseeable future.
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Faculty Challenge District’s Mandate to Downsize and Raise Concerns about Breach of Tenure
City College plans to layoff 50 full-time faculty members that would impact the job security of 273 part-time instructors while also raising questions about the sanctity of tenure if the District rehires full-time faculty as part-timers.
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District Implements Layoffs for Classified Staff at City College
City College laid off 42 classified employees after the chancellor withdrew from labor negotiations with SEIU Local 1021, leading SEIU to charge the District with regressive and coercive bad faith bargaining.
Read moreA College in Recovery Seeks Commitments from its Chancellor
As the college has seen ten years of chancellors dropping out or losing good standing, it will be a dramatic change of pace to transfer to a four-year Chancellor.
Read moreUnion Petitions to Remove Associate Vice Chancellor
The Service Employees International Union 1021 has distributed a petition against the current Associate Vice Chancellor of the City College IT Department Ellen Rayz.
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The Chancellor Finalists: Candidates Largely Align in Approaches to Restore Solvency, and In-Person Classes
Some of the main challenges for the chancellor will be ensuring the college’s long-term fiscal stability while making preparations to bring back in-person classes. Opinions on how these goals should be achieved differ between AFT2121, the union which represents the college’s faculty, and the Board of Trustees, with chancellor candidates in the running having largely similar stances on achieving goals mostly inline with the Board’s opinion and differing from each other only slightly.
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Union Wins Class Size Concession
Faculty union AFT2121 negotiations with the City College administration resulted in classes size minimums remaining at 15 for Fall ‘21.
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