Negotiations Update 8 & 9 May 2025

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 agenda.

• Contributing to setting the agenda, which will be shared with both parties at least 1 day (24 hours) before the meeting time.

• Sending information, requested during a meeting, no later than 1 day (24 hours) prior to the next scheduled meeting, unless there are extenuating circumstances and those reasons are stated.”

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“Both parties will acknowledge emails and information requests within 1 business day and respond in a timely manner.”

Action Items

1. TERB Forms (District Counterproposal 1)

After last week’s frustrating delays, we were eager to see the District’s first counter proposal. Their counter included the following adjustments:

• On the Final Evaluation Report, proposed adding “including out-of-cycle” to the Tenured section and proposed striking “Out of cycle eval only” for Chair and Dean Letters thus attempting to include Dean oversight for all tenured (peer) evaluations. 

• Added “and Director” for each section of the Chair and Dean Form. 

These changes were significant, so we did not agree to sign until we had a chance to take the forms back to the TERB Coordinator and committee.