Palomar Faculty Federation (PFF) is excited to host our  Spring 2026 Executive Board Elections! Nomination period for open positions: February 12 – March 12, 2026 Executive Board Positions up for nomination for the 2026-2028 term: Full-time Co-President (1 seat) Treasurer (1 seat) Full-time Board Member (2 seats) Part-time Board Member (2 seats) At-Large Board Member (2 seats) Executive Board eligibility is defined in the PFF constitution Article IV Section 4.04 . Full-time s

We are pleased to announce that we have finalized the 2024-2025 reopeners for the 2022-2025 District/PFF Collective Bargaining Agreement—our faculty contract. 🎉 Now it’s time for the ratification vote! PFF members have the right to vote on the negotiated changes. Once ratified, the changes will go to the Governing Board for final approval. The vote will be open Monday, December 8th, and will close on Monday, December 15th at midnight.  🗳️ To vote: PFF members, you will be r

This update will cover two meetings where we finalized the last article in our 24-25 reopeners, presented new MOUs to address issues not resolved in the reopeners, assisted the District in reconciling their calendar proposal, and signed off on MOUs.  Action: ✅ Article 15 Counterproposal #2 (District)  The District presented their counterproposal with a clear message: beyond the 1.07% COLA for 24-25, no ongoing funds for 24-25. We were able to add some clarification language t

Today’s negotiations meeting was a promising one. We are coming to the end of our reopeners and had collaborative discussion at the table with the District on how to best meet faculty needs in these final proposals. During difficult times, it was refreshing to have such positive conversations and we are optimistic about these last proposals.  Action: 📌Article 15 Counter Proposal #1 (PFF) PFF presented our first counter proposal for Article 15 Compensation. Our focus continue

Today’s negotiations meeting was to be expected. We continue to advocate for faculty navigating the precarity of shifting workloads and...

Today we met with the District for a shorter session to hear the District’s counters and address a few pressing concerns.  📌Article 15 & MOU_Accessibility Remediation  The District was not prepared to counter at this time.  📌Article 16 District’s counter proposal: the District shared their counter proposal and we are very close to agreeing. Our last pending items involve overlapping coverage and averaging loads for part-time healthcare eligibility.  ✅Appendix E The District

After a long hiatus over the summer, we kicked off our three days of negotiations (Aug. 8, Aug. 11, and Aug. 15) with a very full agenda. Our ultimate goal is to close out our 24-25 reopeners so that we can start on our 3-year contract.  📌Article 15 - our main event. We presented our proposal for the 24-25 Article 15 reopener. Our proposal included the following: Given that we haven’t had a raise in our contracts since 2016, we included a 6% raise for the 24-25 academic yea

This is a special negotiations session we added to finalize a few time-sensitive agreements. This session was via Zoom and focused on our final stages of Article 12 and 20 as well as MOUs expiring in Spring 2025. ~~~ Agenda 1. MOU Extensions MOU_Office Hours Parity extension MOU_AB 1705 Coordinators extension MOU_Large Class Stipend extension MOU_Water Tech Expansion extension At our last meeting, PFF presented extensions for the first three MOUs set to expire Spring 2025. At

Hello and happy summer from your Negotiations Team! ~~~ First, a quick summer overview… Our work on the 24-25 reopeners is ongoing! We have a total of five negotiations sessions planned this summer: 2 regular meetings in June and 3 longs ones in August to finalize the 24-25 reopeners: 🗓️ June 10th from 8am-10am 🗓️ June 16th from 11am-12pm 🗓️ August 7th from 9am-3pm 🗓️ August 11th from 9am-3pm 🗓️ August 15th from 9am-3pm The District informed us that they had decided to r

This is our final negotiations session for the Spring semester, so we extended negotiations by an hour to make our way through a full agenda. ~~~ Agenda 1. Article 20 Counter (District) Most of the adjustments in Article 20 have already been agreed to–lots of green to show all of the agreement! Our final piece is an added section for the PT faculty process in retirement. PFF had presented language that modeled FT faculty in retirement. We all agreed to the importance of clear

Our growing list of agenda items has necessitated multiple negotiations sessions in the last few weeks of the semester. Today’s negotiations update summarizes the work that was done on both Thursday, May 8th and Friday, May 9th. ~~~ Priority Discussion Items 1. Ground Rules PFF and the District reviewed our agreed-upon Ground Rules, specifically the following two sections:  “Both parties will show appropriate preparation by: Having done appropriate prep work for that day’s ag

The District’s Lead Negotiator was out of office today, so we used this time to address our growing list of Discussion Items. Below is a short summary of each Discussion item.  Discussion Items Article 12 Updates (PFF) We received additional feedback from both the SLO Coordinators and SLO Facilitators, so we will be prepared with our counter proposal at our next meeting.  Vocational Salary Credits While the District has expressed their support for the new language that gives

While we were able to accomplish a few important items on our agenda, we are disappointed at today’s negotiations and the lack of urgency the District has shown toward other long standing items on the agenda. We have four additional meetings this month, so we remain cautiously optimistic and hope we can move forward with respect for the process and a sense of urgency for our members. Action Items 1. TERB Forms What was supposed to be the highlight of our meeting was postponed

PFF Voting Notices have been slow to get to some mailboxes. In response, we’re doing two things: 1: Extending the voting window by a week; the election will now close on Wednesday, April 30, at 11:59pm. 2: Asking folks to respond to our email communication with their non-Palomar email if they did not receive the mailed notice; with that, we’ll issue you new credentials via email to vote. No matter how you vote, each person will be able to vote only one time. We’re sorry for t

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Palomar Faculty Federation, AFT 6161, Denounces Palomar College Governing Board’s Decision Regarding the Land Acknowledgement at Meetings San Marcos, CA - April 11, 2025 - The Palomar Faculty Federation (PFF), AFT 6161, strongly condemns the Palomar College Governing Board’s recent decision to rescind the reading of a Land Acknowledgement at the beginning of meetings, a practice that recognized the Indigenous peoples and communities whose ancestral land

Today’s negotiations meeting was a busy one! Not only did the District present their counterproposals for both Article 20 and 12, but we also had a full agenda packed with discussion items to support faculty. We signed one MOU and presented another. Lastly, we confirmed the necessary guests for our next two meetings in order to move forward with TERB forms, a TERB MOU, and Dual Enrollment. ​After requesting additional meetings to address our expanding negotiation agenda, the

It’s that time of year to vote on PFF’s 2025-26 Executive Board. Per law, we are required to snail mail a Voting Notice/Instruction Guide to you even though our elections will take place, securely, online. If you’ve changed your mailing address in the past year, or think PFF may have an outdated one, please respond to the email from PFF by Wednesday 2 April 2025. After that date, addresses are locked in for our ballot processor so the voting notice can be mailed on time to yo

Hello! Happy to report that at today’s table we presented our first counterproposal to Article 20. Notes are below. However, the District...

It makes such a difference when we have multiple meetings in a row! At today’s meeting, we discussed final details of the 25-26 Academic Calendar and the 26-27 Academic Calendar, the District’s counter to Article 20, and a few other important discussions. Here is a summary of those conversations:  ➡️2025-26 & 2026-27 Academic Calendar For 25-26, the big question was to overlap or not to overlap. We got a lot of feedback, but in the end, the majority preferred to keep the over

Hello Comets! We’ve had another important negotiations meeting with the District and wanted to keep you updated on what’s happening behind the scenes. Here is a quick summary of our February 21st, 2025 negotiations meeting.  💫 TERB Good Faith MOU We were joined at the table by TERB Coordinator Marquesa Cook-Wheatley to share the TERB Good Faith MOU. This proposal is designed to provide faculty with a clear process for addressing evaluation issues before they escalate to a fo