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September 6, 2002 Updated January 9, 2003 |
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COC Part-Time Faculty United 
College of the Canyons Part-Time Faculty United Building a better profession, a better institution and better student learning. The following information includes emails come from several sources (including California adjunct organization listservs). There are included here for there direct or indirect relevance to the part-time faculty organizing campaign at College of the Canyons. The names of Part-Time Faculty at COC (excepting the organizing committe) and VVC who authored some of the emails that follow are omitted to preserve their anonimity.
The following email came through to COC Part-Time Faculty United from a COC adjunct faculty: For your information: UC Berkeley lecturers are going on strike on Wednesday 8.28. They are sponsored by the AFT. Yes, very interesing and brave. http://www.berkeley.edu/news/labor/index.html Ciao. T. August 21, 2002
See below from the Ed Code. 87821.
Each salary payment for any calendar month may be made onthe last working
day of the month and shall be paid not earlier than the last working day
of the month and not later than the fifth day ofthe succeeding calendar
month except that faculty employed for lessthan full time in classes for
adults, in a day or evening communitycollege, shall be paid on or before
the 10th day of the succeeding calendar month for services performed during
the preceding calendar month.If the community college district provides
for the payment of the salary of employees employed in academic positions
once each two weeks, twice a month, or once each four weeks, each salary
payment may be made on the last working day of the payroll period and shall
be made not earlier than the last working day of the payroll periodand
not later than the eighth working day of the following payroll period.This
section shall not prohibit a district from making a payment of earned salary
prior to the last working day of the month or payroll period.
Here is the link for ed code, labor code, and other codes: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/calaw.html --Ellen
Straw
and the second email: State Ed Code: 87821.
Each salary payment for any calendar month may be made on the last working
day of the month and shall be paid not earlier than the last working day
of the month and not later than the fifth day of the succeeding calendar
month except that faculty employed for less than full time in classes for
adults, in a day or evening community college, shall be paid on or before
the 10th day of the succeeding calendar month for services performed during
the preceding calendar month.
Pamela
Highet
August 17, 2002
Thanks for the support! Regards. G. The following email came through to COC Part-Time Faculty United from a COC adjunct faculty: Please let me vent to you since if I go directly to the President I will be a trouble maker and won't ever be considered for full time employment. . . .Thanks for providing this source for us to be able to share these incidents with you, and for representing us. G. The following email came through to COC Part-Time Faculty United from another very disgruntled ex-COC adjunct: I do not teach at COC. I did for one term. I doubt I will be called back to teach there for another term. I teach at Cal State Dominguez Hills and begin fall session in a couple of weeks where I will be confronted with assorted CSU adjunct faculty woes. I found my experience at COC to be stressful, depressing and annoying. No one was able to assist me in anything that I encountered that was illegal, demeaning, etc. Now that I no longer have to deal with COC's particular bunch of assholes, I would really not like receiving updates on anything that goes on there. I wish you the best of luck. I signed all of your petitions while I taught there and support your efforts to help adjunct coolie labor/sweatshop faculty but I will be facing another set of illegalities, rip-offs, humiliations, denials of my rights, etc. so I think I will have enough on my plate for the time being. Please do not update me on day-to-day matters that would only affect COC adjunct faculty. If I ever teach there again, I will look to you for assistance and will give my support. Yours truly, E. August 16, 2002
Hi Michael and COC P-T United, I'm delighted to have your website link. What a great website! Linda also told me of your support for Victor Valley carding efforts. She was so grateful for your help. Here at Palomar we just went to impasse. But our biggest problems are with full-time faculty shenanigans. They are part of our unit. What a load. I hope to see you at some function soon. Meanwhile, keep up the efforts! Warm regards, Mary
Millet
August 14, 2002
Michael, Thanks for keeping me in the loop. . . Thanks so much for your support and that of our other colleagues in our cause. Arlene August 12, 2002
Michael, Words cannot express our gratitude to you and your colleagues from College of the Canyons. Without you folks there along with the team from Orange County we would have been lost, swamped and totally ineffective. You people made the night happen. . . Again we owe you folks so much. When you need help give us a holler. Not sure I would have the brass you did to go into that newcomers meeting and put [the VVC Faculty Association president] on the carpet but we'll assist in any way we can. By the way I still get a chuckle out of that maneuver. Good luck as you move forward. We are still stuck in the waiting game! Yours in improved education for all concerned, Allen And the response from Michael Ward of COC Part-Time Faculty United/ AFT: Dear Allen, We
wouldn't have missed the VVC adjunct orientation for anything; we were
most pleased to join your part-time faculty organizing effort! Congratulations
on pulling off a spectacular coup, . . . Yes, you're in the waiting
game
Take care, Allen. It was great seeing you and the VVC crew last Friday. Michael
Ward
. . .and a follow up from Kevin Burne of VVC with some excellent news: Thanks
for cc'ing me Michael. I want to add my thanks to Allen's.
You have some great people there at COC. We really appreciated all of you
being there. I don't know whether or not you have heard yet, but today
we got the
Kevin
Then came the good news about the injunction against CTA and the VVC part-timers from Allen Gildard: Michael, About ten minutes after I emailed you this morning Linda [Cushing] called and told me we had just got the injunction!!!!! I have been sort of sky high ever since. . . Yours in improving education for all involved, Allen
W. Gildard
August 11, 2002
Thank you for what you are doing, I totally support you. Thank you for your dedication to helping out the part-timers at COC!! S. August 10, 2002
Dear Part-time Faculty Colleagues at COC, Many of us recently received a letter from COCFA, the College of the Canyons full-time faculty union, stating that they are our "exclusive bargaining agent" and requesting our "attention" to their application. Technically, they can make that claim (just as one parent might have "possession" of a child in a custody case, as COC Vice-president Phil Hartley pointed out to Chuck Whitten and I today - if this sounds paternalistic, I think it was probably meant to be). Perhaps the best analogy might be that something stolen can be claimed as the possession of thieves until a legal challenge is resolved. THAT is what is going on in our case! COCFA and the CTA are making that claim in a desperate attempt to confuse the issue in the minds of COC adjunct faculty as we move toward our election. Such a concern is expressed in the following email received today by COC Part-Time Faculty United/ AFT from one of our colleagues (who shall remain anonymous). "Hi- did everybody get a letter from our COCFA? I am already in CTA due to [another] school job - this is not the one to join! We have had an impasse since last year. Thanks for your support!"This email is the reason for this message. If anyone has filled this form out by mistake, don't worry; it doesn't mean anything since the COC administration is barred by a court order from recognizing them as our bargaining unit anyway. At present, we don't have one, since the COCFA/ CTA is fighting our attempt to organize. We expect a positive ruling from the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) VERY SOON, and once it is received, we will finally be able to make a choice in an election. Tomorrow morning (at 9:30) is the adjunct faculty orientation in the COC cafeteria; if you can, please come out and support our COC Part-Time Faculty United Organizing Committee! THANK YOU for your continued support! In Solidarity, Michael
Ward
The following email is the response from a COC adjunct to the above email: Thanks, Michael. This explanation was very helpful. Since "the others" are also college faculty, it tends to be confusing. (They do have representatives here as professors, right?) I want to be protected but/and it's difficult to know who the "custodial parent" really is. The reference you made to the "thieve" is like saying, "possession is 9/10th of the law". Right or wrong, someone's got us (adjuncts) in their hands feeding us some type of information. Keep iin touch. G The following email came to COC Part-Time Faculty United/ AFT from a COC adjunct faculty member: You need to fight to get part timers their fall checks in Sept and not how it is planned for Oct. The other 2 colleges I teach at pay in Sept and COC paying in Oct is 2 months after school starts. . . Also payroll always sends out notices so late it is useless to the pt teachers (such as their reminder note that summer pay is on Aug 14 when I already came to get my check Aug 9 and I see this reminder note. Why cant they send it out in a timely manner so we can plan accordingly? I finished summer school in July and [there was] no such reminder is in our boxes). COC really is behind in their respect for pt teachers and we need to be paid the next month after we work and not 2 months. It's an insult! D. The following email came to COC Part-Time Faculty United/ AFT from a COC adjunct faculty member: . . .thank you for your responses . . . I hope you will continue to push for our pay checks to be more timely. . . I appreciate your time and energy . . . Sincerely, D. The following email came to COC Part-Time Faculty United/ AFT from AFT National Representative Linda Cushing related to complaints received from many of our colleagues abouth the timeliness of COC paychecks to all its faculty: State law says that part-time faculty should receive payment for all work done in the prior month by the fifth of the following month, but in no circumstances later than the 10th of the following month! . . . Linda The following email came to COC Part-Time Faculty United/ AFT from a COC adjunct faculty member: Michael, . . .we (part timers) are very fortunate to have a person like you fighting for us. . . Keep up the good work and thank you for all you do for part time teachers! Sincerly, D.
August 9, 2002
Hi- did everybody get a letter from our COCFA? I am already in CTA due to my high school job - this is not the one to join! We have had an impasse since last year. Thanks for your support! S.
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