Negotiated wage increases for fiscal year 2021 are as follows:

• 2% Cost of Living increase effective January 1, 2021;
• $500 bonus effective January 1, 2021 if revenues exceed budget projections by $75 million;
• Art, Music and Dance Therapist classifications will receive a 4 pay grade increase with existing employees receiving a 6% increase;
• Art, Music and Dance Therapist classifications at Clifton T. Perkins Hospital will receive an additional 1 pay grade increase with existing employees receiving a 12% increase;
• Dentist classifications will receive a 1 grade increase with existing employees receiving a 6% increase;
• Pharmacist classifications will receive a 2 grade increase with existing employees receiving a 6% increase;
• The grade increases are effective July 1, 2020 and are in addition to the COLA and bonus effective January 1, 2021.

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Thank you for being a member of the Louisiana Federation of Teachers and School Employees.

This year has gone by so fast, but through our collective power we’ve accomplished a lot. From raises, to new friends and election victories, 2019 has been a year to remember.

1) Earned MA/PhD: The transition to the new Advanced Degree salary guides went rather smoothly, all things considered. The NTU had to intervene in less than a dozen corrections.

UHP leadership recently posted an update on a decision by management to start bringing in nurses at the CN3 level, in what we believe to be in clear violation of our contract.

UPDATE (Jan. 24): We had our Step 2 grievance hearing this morning, argued by President Bill Garrity, 1st VP Ivonne Hamm, Chief Steward Jean Morningstar, and junior steward Gloria Valentino (CN2).

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In This Issue:

1) Superintendent Pushes back against charters

2) January Paychecks

3) Upcoming Prudential Center Events

4) Wellness Update: Flu

And more!

Dear Adjunct Professor Colleagues,

Over the last decade, adjunct faculty at Camden County College have become increasingly concerned at the direction the administration is taking the institution: addition or cancellation of teaching appointments at the last minute, lack of transparency in dealings with non-tenured faculty and students, as well as the reduction of adjunct faculty are just a few of the conditions that CCC faculty have been unable to effectively resist without representation. We have no real job security, and in many cases, no clear program for advancement, despite the fact that some of us have been teaching at CCC for years or even decades.

CCC depends on a large group of highly trained, committed, non-tenure track faculty like us. While our official job titles vary by school and department – Lecturer, Assistant, Associate or Full Professor (Teaching), Adjunct, Visiting Faculty, Professor (Teaching) – we are, all of us, contingent faculty. Therefore, our employment status remains tenuous, which results in our academic freedom being compromised.

For those of us teaching as adjunct faculty with multi-year contracts, our contracts state that we are not eligible to be considered for tenure benefits, and that non-tenure-track appointments are subject to early termination, while those of us who have semester-to-semester contracts can regularly expect to be unemployed every summer. Regardless of the number of years we’ve been employed by CCC, we can never depend on the job security our tenured colleagues enjoy.

And it’s not just job security. As contingent faculty, we’re paid a fraction of what tenured and tenure-track faculty earn – even when teaching the same courses, have reduced access to professional activities, and are disenfranchised from full participation in faculty governance. It is hard to plan one’s life without a clear expectation, much less guarantee, of continued employment. As at-will employees, we lack the pay, benefits and privileges, access to campus resources, and professional growth opportunities our tenure-track colleagues have. Now, CCC Adjunct faculty are standing up for dignity and a voice in our working conditions.

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Leadership of the Baltimore County Federation of Public Employees took time out of their Christmas celebrations with their own loved ones, to deliver presents to county public safety personnel that worked on Christmas Day. President John Ripley donned a Santa costume (beard is all his own however) to spread good cheer to those working.

Education Minnesota recently added a Retired position to the ED MN PAC.  Kaye Peters is the retired representative to that committee.  Here is her first report.

                                 Report on November 23 PAC board meeting by Kaye Peters

Ms. Geraldine Bowman, long time MCEA member was called home on December 7, 2019.  Ms. Bowman was an active participant in Chapter 13 for well over 40 years.  Her knowledge and wisdom will be surely missed.