Hello Team Palomar,  We’re excited to share some updates with negotiations. At our last meeting, we had a full agenda. The District presented their counter to Article 12 (Chairs & Directors) as well as an MOU for work done in Water Tech. We presented an updated MOU for the CRPP work as well as the new TERB forms presented to both PFF and Faculty Senate in the Fall. We discussed the academic calendar options, part-time faculty office hour deadlines, updated Covid-19 reporting

Email to faculty from Lawrence Hamilton Lawson on 1/31/2025 PFF met with the District Thursday to discuss the ongoing Scripps situation and continue to advocate for faculty.  First, Scripps and Anthem continue to talk. Hopefully, those talks yield positive results, but so far, that has not been the case.  We asked the District for a definitive answer to this question: Are there any options for folks to stay with Scripps and  be in-network during this enrollment period?  The a

It is our second negotiations meeting since the sunshines articles were approved by the board and we are ready! We presented our initial proposal for Article 20, discussed the academic calendars, the success of our increased part-time office hours, and feminine hygiene products on campus.  Here is an overview of negotiations today: 🟢 PFF’s Article 20 Proposal :  The focus of our proposal was on Article 20.10, part-time preferential consideration. We presented a more streamli

Dear Faculty Colleagues, On February 13, The Palomar Faculty Federation (PFF) begins accepting nominations for the following PFF...

Kicking off Negotiations in Full Green! We are ready to hit the ground running, presenting our first proposal the day after  our sunshined articles went to the board. Decked out in our new PFF/CCE green t-shirts (symbolizing aGREENment and solidarity), we’re excited to turn these green flags into real wins for faculty.  Here is an overview of negotiations today:  🟢PFF’s Article 12 Proposal:  We presented adjustments to Article 12 that reflect changes to SLO coordinating, inc

Happy Halloween! Today’s Negotiations were anything but spooky. Excited to announce that we got some real treats in terms of Class Caps.  Here is an overview of our negotiations meeting from October 31, 2024:  🍬MOU_Article 8 The District reviewed our initial proposal and gave a few updates and corrections involving cross-listed classes or deactivated courses.  AND we agreed! We are so excited to announce that all classes have been negotiated. We expect an updated list from I

Hello Team Palomar!  Here is an overview of our negotiations meeting from October 10, 2024:  ☀️Annual Reopeners/Sunshining  Excited to officially agree on our reopeners for this academic year:  Article 15 + Appendix F and Article 16 are automatic reopeners The District chose to open Article 4 + Appendix B and Appendix L After our listening sessions and feedback from faculty, we chose to open Article 20 and Article 12 We are currently working on our proposals, so stay tuned fo

Hello from your Negotiations Team! We are still in the early stages of our reopeners, but we are making steady progress as we continue to advocate for faculty across a range of important issues–class caps, benefit arrears, salary placement concerns, etc. We are addressing many issues that affect our working conditions and ensuring that faculty voices are heard every step of the way.  Ground Rules Both parties agreed on the ground rules for our reopeners  Reopeners will be rea

Hello Comets!  Here is an overview of our negotiations meeting from September 11, 2024:  MOU on International Transcripts We presented an MOU to support faculty whose salary placement is complicated by international transcripts. The District responded in a favorable way, but wants to review options to solve this problem individually instead of with an MOU.  Noncredit Workload Issues There was a healthy discussion about the changes to noncredit workload and the impacts it has

August is here! And your Negotiations Team is still hard at work advocating for faculty! We met with the District twice in August to...

Summer Update - July 31st  Hope your summer is going well! In July, we were able to meet twice to continue our negotiations—once for contract negotiations and once for class caps. We also met with the District on two other occasions to collaborate on other faculty concerns.  MOUs We continued to advocate for an increase to the amount of reassigned time for our Curriculum Co-Chair to offset the increased workload caused by AB-928, AB-1111, and changes to Title 5. The District

Summer Update - June 28th  Hello and happy summer! This week, the Negotiations team met for the first time this summer with the District. We also met twice this week for class cap negotiations–the first time the District has been able to meet for class caps since January.  We had a full agenda. Here are a few of the highlights:  MOUs We signed an MOU for stipends for faculty working on the Faculty Cultural Curriculum Teaching Institute under the Culturally Responsive Pedagogy

Negotiations Update   This morning we met with the District and finalized agreement on adjustments to the 24/25 academic calendar to account for the insufficient Mondays issue in Spring 2025. The new draft calendar overlaps the first week of spring with the last week of winter intersession, moves spring break by a week due to that change, and shortens the summer session to 8 weeks, allowing for a gap between spring and summer and summer and fall. A few important notes: Progra

Negotiations Update At today’s meeting, we spent the bulk of our time discussing options for calendar revisions for Spring 2025 to attempt to effectively address the insufficient Mondays issue. PFF’s team shared the feedback received from faculty as we attempted to figure out a solution that would be preferable for most people. Discussion will need to continue, so we scheduled another meeting for tomorrow morning (5/24/24).   We shared the results of our ratification vote on

Negotiations Update Your PFF Negotiations Team has worked diligently since October to negotiate the 2023-2024 reopeners for the 2022-2025 District/PFF Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA, aka “the contract”). The full contract was NOT open for negotiation–we were focused on only a few articles in this round of negotiations. We finalized negotiations on all reopeners with the District this week and will send the ratification vote to all PFF members on Monday 5/20/24. The vote

Negotiations Update We made exceptional progress at today’s meeting and are now literally one footnote away from completing all 23/24 reopeners. Read on for details about today’s meeting: Article 15 (Compensation)- TAed   Vocational/CTE compensation Previously completed (and future) trainings, licenses, and certifications can be counted towards grade advancement (71 hours of training = 1 graduate unit).  Each year (40 hours per week x number of contract months) of occupationa

Negotiations Update We had a long meeting with the District team today, where we presented one counterproposal and they presented three counterproposals. We also engaged in discussion about numerous issues.  Appendix F (Reassigned Time and Stipends) We presented a counterproposal for Appendix F, and the District was able to respond after they caucused during the meeting. While we did not receive additional positions we were requesting in this round, we have reached agreement

Dear PFF Members, Due to the deadlines of our third-party vendor for our online elections, the timeline for the Spring 2024 PFF election has been slightly revised: All voting PFF members will receive a mailed, hardcopy Notice of Election  from Ballot Point at their home address beginning April 20. This information will also be posted on the PFF website. The election will run (electronically, using a digital ballot) from April 20 to May 8 . Members will be asked to confirm one

Negotiations Update 3/14/24 At today’s meeting (on National Pi Day) we brought a pie to share with the District team along with a visual illustration  of the discrepancy between full- and part-time paid office hours. We discussed the following: District Counterproposal (Article 20- Working Conditions) The District’s counter included some different perspectives than our proposal on the assignment of office space, leading to some productive conversation with the District about

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