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BOARD / Trustees and faculty debated over the terms of a potential
new contract for nearly two years. / Jose Servin / el Don
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Th e faculty union was fi ghting to retain a 10 percent
escalator cap, which protected the faculty against rising
insurance premiums.
“Th ere’s a bit of history with that … We put it in there
as a measure to be sure that we wouldn’t be caught up in
massive infl ation and uncertainty,” FARSCCD member
Barry Resnick said.
Th e board views this protective percentage as
unnecessarily high. In the new contract, it has been
lowered to 6 percent.
“Although the escalator clause is no longer at 10 percent,
it has gone down, we received really solid things in return
for that, that will be lasting legacy pieces of the contract
that will continue to benefi t faculty for many years to
come,” Guzman said.
Another item delaying the settlement of the faculty’s
contract is the distribution of cost-of-living adjustment
money that the board received from the state for
2015-2016.
“Our goal during the 2015-2016 negotiations was for
all bargaining units to receive an equitable distribution
of that year’s COLA funding ... our off er to all bargaining
units was a COLA increase retroactive to January 2016,”
Barrios said.
Other groups, including the California School Employ-
ees Association, accepted the board’s off er, but FARSCCD
requested the entire year of COLA money, an increase of
1.02 percent retroactive to July 2015.
Both groups released a joint statement March 29, saying
that the new contract was fair.
“I am pleased with the outcome, I think the faculty
association worked really hard to make the faculty whole,
we worked really hard to do our best for both fulltime and
part time faculty,” Guzman said.