Announcement of Election and Voting
Voting is open from May 21 (8am) - May 27 (5pm).
ALL ACTIVE CTA/MPFA MEMBERS ARE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE.
On the ballot: Executive Board and Changes to the Collective Bargaining Agreement
Executive Board
The Executive Board consists of 7 members, all of whom are elected for a one-year term, June 1-May 31. This election is for the 22-23 Academic Year.
Positions to be voted upon are:
Summary of Changes to the Collective Bargaining Agreement to be voted on next week
(click on the PDFs below to read the complete texts)
Article 8 – Personnel Files
Clarifications, policy changes are: 1) a log of anyone who views your personnel file, and 2) HR staff person must be present
when files are viewed.
Article 9 – Leaves
Addition of Catastrophic leave benefit, including a Leave Bank. Similar to both the Classified and Full-Time agreements.
Article 12 – Professional Development
Addition of details on what is required to get paid for PD, no actual policy changes.
Article 16 – Salary
6.56% COLA (1 year)
Addition of mileage reimbursement for instructors that work at a non-center site (such as Covelo or Booneville)
Office hours now include a Zoom option
Addition of a Part-time faculty member to the Facilities/Safety Committee, $700 per semester
Article 18 – Workload
Addition of: 18.02.10 Unit members shall maintain a California address.
We continue to work with and stand with the other two units at Mendocino College (Full-Time and Classified) for a coordinated approach regarding salary and benefits.
In addition to the articles listed above, the article regarding Part-Time Evaluations will be finished. We will hold that vote in mid-August as school starts.
There is also a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) regarding Hi-Flex classes (this doesn't need to be voted on by the unit)
one time payment of $600
4 eligible semesters: Spr 22, Fall 22, Spr 23, Fall 23
ALL ACTIVE CTA/MPFA MEMBERS ARE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE.
On the ballot: Executive Board and Changes to the Collective Bargaining Agreement
Executive Board
The Executive Board consists of 7 members, all of whom are elected for a one-year term, June 1-May 31. This election is for the 22-23 Academic Year.
Positions to be voted upon are:
- President - Janice Hawthorne Timm
- Vice President - _____________ (Write-in accepted)
- Secretary - _____________ (Write-in accepted)
- Treasurer - Marilyn Simpson (incumbent)
- 3 at-large members
- Lucy Bayer (incumbent)
- Kathryn Renderman (incumbent)
- Kathy Dingman Katz
Summary of Changes to the Collective Bargaining Agreement to be voted on next week
(click on the PDFs below to read the complete texts)
Article 8 – Personnel Files
Clarifications, policy changes are: 1) a log of anyone who views your personnel file, and 2) HR staff person must be present
when files are viewed.
Article 9 – Leaves
Addition of Catastrophic leave benefit, including a Leave Bank. Similar to both the Classified and Full-Time agreements.
Article 12 – Professional Development
Addition of details on what is required to get paid for PD, no actual policy changes.
Article 16 – Salary
6.56% COLA (1 year)
Addition of mileage reimbursement for instructors that work at a non-center site (such as Covelo or Booneville)
Office hours now include a Zoom option
Addition of a Part-time faculty member to the Facilities/Safety Committee, $700 per semester
Article 18 – Workload
Addition of: 18.02.10 Unit members shall maintain a California address.
We continue to work with and stand with the other two units at Mendocino College (Full-Time and Classified) for a coordinated approach regarding salary and benefits.
In addition to the articles listed above, the article regarding Part-Time Evaluations will be finished. We will hold that vote in mid-August as school starts.
There is also a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) regarding Hi-Flex classes (this doesn't need to be voted on by the unit)
one time payment of $600
4 eligible semesters: Spr 22, Fall 22, Spr 23, Fall 23
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We are worth it.
Our students are worth it.
Our bargaining team has been working diligently over the past several years to bring salaries and benefits into alignment and equity with Mendocino College’s full-time faculty positions.
Of course we did not get everything we asked for this round – but we did receive a reasonable offer that will give us the time and space to continue to grow our membership numbers and activity.
It is not enough, though, to accept this offer and think we are DONE.
WE DESERVE BETTER
WE DESERVE BENEFITS
WE DESERVE SALARY EQUITY
It’s time for all of us to step up!
The best way to show the district your support for our bargaining team is to be a paid & active member of MPFA.
We cannot do this without YOUR help. At least 60% of us need to be members in order for the district to take us seriously. Currently 63/188 part-time faculty are members, that’s only 34%. (look at that bar graph below)
*Please join MPFA TODAY!
*Already an MPFA member?
Consider submitting your name to serve on the Executive Board
or accept a non-elected position like Grievance Committee or Membership & Communication
https://join.cta.org/
Where do your dues go?
Here's a note from our Treasurer, Marilyn Simpson.
Over the course of the year, MPFA receives $68.20 per member; CTA/CCA receives $142.80; and NEA receives $68. (See this helpful document.)
NEA and CTA/CCA use their money (in my estimation) for lobbying, including TV ads, conferences, all the benefits for their members and administrative costs — salaries for staff, etc.
MPFA pays stipends to the negotiating team out of our funds that derive from our dues; that was $2200 over the last year, and considering how much time the negotiators put in, this pays them between $15 and $20 per hour (a huge bargain, in my humble opinion, considering the gains that the new contract gives us!). The president of MPFA is actually paid by the college. All the other board members are volunteers, but this spring we got a grant to give membership, grievance, and communication committee members stipends; and we got a grant for the membership party. So those were paid by the reimbursement from CTA. I think we’ll ask for those grants again this year.
Other costs: every time we have an election, it costs us $334; and the web site/domain address also have yearly fees.
Yours, Marilyn Simpson
Over the course of the year, MPFA receives $68.20 per member; CTA/CCA receives $142.80; and NEA receives $68. (See this helpful document.)
NEA and CTA/CCA use their money (in my estimation) for lobbying, including TV ads, conferences, all the benefits for their members and administrative costs — salaries for staff, etc.
MPFA pays stipends to the negotiating team out of our funds that derive from our dues; that was $2200 over the last year, and considering how much time the negotiators put in, this pays them between $15 and $20 per hour (a huge bargain, in my humble opinion, considering the gains that the new contract gives us!). The president of MPFA is actually paid by the college. All the other board members are volunteers, but this spring we got a grant to give membership, grievance, and communication committee members stipends; and we got a grant for the membership party. So those were paid by the reimbursement from CTA. I think we’ll ask for those grants again this year.
Other costs: every time we have an election, it costs us $334; and the web site/domain address also have yearly fees.
Yours, Marilyn Simpson
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