Announcement of Election and Voting
The Mendocino Part Time Faculty Association (CTA/MPFA) will be holding its election for the Executive Board (offices listed below) during the 4th week in May. Also on the ballot will be the Tentative Agreements affecting our Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA).
Nominations are open (which means that anyone who is a unit member is eligible to nominate any other unit member, including himself/herself for office).
All nominees and voters must be a current member of CTA/MPFA.
If you are not currently a member, you may join before May 11, 5pm.
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:
All Declarations of Candidacy, regardless of the method of submission, must be received no later than 5pm, Wednesday, May 11, 2022.
Complete instructions for filing are on the form that you may download by clicking on the button below.
Nominations are open (which means that anyone who is a unit member is eligible to nominate any other unit member, including himself/herself for office).
All nominees and voters must be a current member of CTA/MPFA.
If you are not currently a member, you may join before May 11, 5pm.
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
- Vice President
- Secretary
- Treasurer
- 3 at-large members
All Declarations of Candidacy, regardless of the method of submission, must be received no later than 5pm, Wednesday, May 11, 2022.
Complete instructions for filing are on the form that you may download by clicking on the button below.
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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