Summary of Contract Negotiations
2018-19 & 2019-20
If you have questions about the contract please contact Garrett Hooper, Lead Negotiator, COCFA at Garrett.Hooper@Canyons.edu
If you have questions about the elections process please contact Kathy Flynn, Elections Chair, COCFA at Kathy.Flynn@Canyons.edu
2018-19 Non-Compensation Items
Updated TB testing
o Required every 4 years per California law
o Article 14: Safety, section B, pg. 54
· Classroom Visitation Report use through 2018-19
o Either form can be used (1-5, 5-1) through 2018-19, given the discrepancy in 2017-18 contract with changes made to digital copy
o Does not impair faculty ability to grieve the process
o MOU, pg. 163; Classroom Visitation Report, pg. 132
Addition of “Interim” faculty to “Probationary” and “Temporary” designation for evaluation.
o Article 7: Evaluation of Contract (Probationary Contract, Temporary, and Interim) Faculty Members, pg. 15
Changes to tenured and non-tenured evaluation & committee summary reports
o Signature line for Evaluatee, Report of Tenure Review Committee, pg. 127
o CreatedCommittee Summary - Tenured Faculty Evaluation Report, pg. 129
o Added language to Committee Summary - Non-TenuredandCommittee Summary - Tenured Faculty Evaluation Reports notifying faculty that all evaluation paperwork will be placed in their personnel file, pg. 128 - 129
Adoption of Department Chair Evaluation
o Article 12: Workload and Work Days, section K.12, pgs. 49-50
o Appendix G-6: Department Chair/Program Coordinator Evaluation, pgs. 118-120
Pilot of Faculty Director evaluation, spring 2019
o Appendix G-7: Faculty Director Evaluation, pg. 121
o Tentative Agreement for Faculty Director Evaluation, pgs. 167-171
Curricular Coordinators
o Agreement on Curricular Coordinator job description, with compensation schedule approved through 2019, to be negotiated during 2019-2020
o MOU,Curricular and Assessment Coordinators, pgs. 164-166
Article 10: Leaves
o Added gender-neutral language (replaced “his/her” with “their”) throughout article
o Increased bereavement leave to 5 days per incident, up to a maximum of 10 days in line with CSEA agreement
§ Definition of “immediate family” removed, replaced with “any member of a unit member’s family or any non-relative of the unit member living in the immediate household”
o Added “domestic partner” to section O., Family Leave
o Article 10: Leaves, pgs. 30-36
Article 11: Load Banking
o Added language defining Counselors’ ability to load bank either hours or TLUs in overload
o Article 11: Load Banking, pgs. 37-39
Article 12: Large class enrollment caps
o Addition of 1.2x TLU factor for 45 students
o Language added regarding maintaining TLU factor despite dipping below target at census
o Article 12: Workload and Work Days, section A.1.d, pg. 41
Article 12: Counselor workload
o Defined student contact hours
o Article 12: Workload and Work Days, section H, pgs. 44-45
2018-19 Compensation
3.71% (COLA +1)
o Salary increase = 4.37%, retroactive to July 1, 2018
o Increase on-going health & welfare contribution per faculty to $15,482
o Appendix D: Total Compensation, pg. 88
· Tentative Agreement 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 Total Compensation and Supplemental Services Preauthorization, pgs. 173-181
2019-20 Compensation
COLA + $24,950
o COLA projected 3.46%, TBD May 2019
o H&W shortfall based on 2019-20 CalPERS rates, TBD June 2019
o Salary increase TBD based on confirmed COLA, H&W shortfall
o Appendix D: Total Compensation, pg. 89
Overload/summer/winter rate increased to $75.62
o Removed from total compensation beginning July 1, 2019
§ Appendix D: Total Compensation, pg. 85
o Attached to AFT salary schedule (range 2/step 3) beginning July 1, 2019
§ Increases as AFT salary schedule increases with subsequent contract agreements
§ Re-negotiated upon reorganization or structural revision to AFT schedule
§ Appendix B-1: F/T Academic Overload Salary Schedule, pg. 78
§ Appendix B-2: F/T Academic Summer & Winter Salary Schedule, pg. 79
Non-instruction rate removed
o Creation of a pre-authorization process, negotiated with the District spring 2019
o Article 16 - Non-Instructional Non-Service Days Assignments, pg. 56
· Tentative Agreement 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 Total Compensation and Supplemental Services Preauthorization, pgs. 173-181