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

WHAT'S NEW THIS SPRING ? Negotiations, Awards, Elections, Parity, and More!

We made good progress towards finishing up our remaining reopeners at today’s negotiations meeting. The District presented their first counterproposal to our Article 15 (Compensation) and Appendix F (Reassigned Time and Stipends) proposals. As expected, the District did not accept all of our proposed gains and increases in Article 15 and Appendix F but did importantly agree with us on some long-awaited gains. We engaged in some good discussion and have optimism for some poten

During today’s meeting with the District: Academic Calendars 2024/25  (adjusted summer), 2025/26  and 2026/27 - TAed We were able to make some positive adjustments to the academic calendars for upcoming years. The main changes are to the summer schedule. Starting Summer 2025, the summer session will be 10 weeks long (down from 12) allowing for a week gap between spring and summer and between summer and fall. This will allow for grades to be submitted before the next session s

Dear Faculty Colleagues- On February 12, The Palomar Faculty Federation (PFF) begins accepting nominations for the following PFF Executive Board positions:   Two-year terms- May 2024 through May 2026: One full-time  faculty Co-President One full-time or part-time faculty Treasurer One full-time  faculty Executive Board Members Two part-time  faculty Executive Board Members Two at-large  Executive Board Members (full- or part-time faculty) Eligibility requirements will be pos

At this morning’s negotiations meeting, we met the new VPHRS, Anna Pedroza, who is joining the District’s team, and finished presenting all outstanding proposals in this round of reopeners. Article 15 (Compensation) We presented our initial proposal for Article 15. Highlights include:  Slight raise for 24/25  Automatic COLA CTE salary scale parity for our colleagues in fields without advanced degrees Improvements to PT and FT office hour compensation Appendix F (Reassigned Ti

At today’s negotiations meeting we were able to sign a long-awaited and discussed MOU and clear up several areas of discussion.  Article 4 (Workload and Calendar)- TA While we finalized negotiations on this article before winter break, we were able to sign it today. Please see the previous negotiations update for details. Large Class Stipend MOU- SIGNED We began conversations with the District in 2017 about compensating faculty who teach courses with caps over the standard of

Negotiations Update 12/14/23 We made some exciting progress at our negotiations meeting today! As we work through negotiating our 2023-24...

At today’s meeting, we were able to sign our first Tentative Agreement (TA) of the 2023-24 reopeners and make some considerable progress...

At today’s negotiations meeting with the District, we presented our counterproposal for Article 16, continuing to seek middle ground...

10/26/23 Negotiations Update At today’s negotiations meeting, we received the District’s counterproposals for our Article 4 and Article...

10/12/23 Negotiations Update At their 10/10 meeting, the Governing Board approved our sunshined articles to be reopened for 23/24...

After numerous canceled meetings over the last several months, we were pleased to resume class caps negotiations with the District today....

We were pleased to resume our regular negotiations meetings with the District today after taking a brief pause during August while we...

PFF is in the process of reformatting its Constitution. In the interim, PFF wanted to make sure the below was known. In Spring 2023, we...

At today’s meeting with the District, we completed negotiations for the 2022-2025 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA)! Negotiations...

We spent a full day negotiating with the District as we attempt to finalize negotiations on the three-year 2022-2025 CBA. At this...

We met with the District this afternoon and were able to make progress towards the completion of our 2022-2025 CBA. Article 20 (Working...