AdFac executive board members retire

Mary Millet, CFT Field Representative and Chief Negotiator to AdFac for 2008-09, resigned effective June 30 after many years in the field. Mary began her career as a junior high school English teacher in Utah. She later taught English at Palomar, Mira Costa, and Cal State San Marcos. She became Part-Time Community College Faculty Coordinator for CFT community college locals in 2003. She joined CFT full time as a Field Representative in the LA Regional Field Office, Hawaiian Gardens, in 2004. Two years later she became Field Representative in the CFT Costa Mesa office where she served AdFac and other locals in Orange, San Diego, and Riverside Counties. Congratulations, Mary! We really miss you, but we wish you all the best.

Tony Jordan originally hails from Michigan; he later moved to Florida for ten years. He also taught at Cleary University, Oakland Community College, Washtenaw CC, Lansing CC, and The American College. Most of his union activism occurred during the years he served as Executive Director of the Howell Main Street Program. Tony moved to California in 1992. While teaching economics at Fullerton College, Tony served as AdFac’s COPE Chair and was a member of the Executive Board since 2009. Tony and his lovely wife, Margaux, are now happily back in Florida.

The Executive Board of Adjunct Faculty United has announced a campaign to get the Board of Trustees of the North Orange County Community College District to support a law currently being considered by the California state legislature, AB 1807, the part-time faculty seniority re-hire bill.

What does AB1807 do? 

The law would require community college districts to set up a reemployment preference list by departments.  Everyone on the list would have the right of first refusal for work in subsequent semesters/quarters.  How does a part-time faculty member get on the list?  Three critieria are required: (1) have taught 6 semesters (or equivalent) out of the last 6 years, (2) have taught at least a 20% load (3 credits or, for non-credit, 5 hours a week), and (3) have the most recent evaluation be satisfactory.  Once on the list, the district has to offer the part-time faculty member at least the same number of credits or hours as that person had in the previous term, as long as there remains work in that department for which the person is qualified.  If the amount of work in that department declines, the part-time faculty member remains on the list (and has right of first refusal for new work) "for a period not exceeding two years after the last date on which the employee would have been eligible to be placed on the list." Work in the department is offered by seniority, which the law defines as "earliest date of hire." 

Such a law would give many part-time faculty the assurance that they would have a continuing job in subsequent terms.

AdFac needs your help in pushing North Orange County Community College District to support this bill!

Click here to download our petition. Please complete and return your signed petition to the union so that they can be presented, en masse, to the Board of Trustees at their meeting on May 25.  Please duplicate these petitions and have them signed by students, friends, colleagues, neighbors, or any other members of the community. Broad support needs to be shown! Pick up extra copies of the petition in the union office:  305 N. Harbor Blvd., Suite 313, Fullerton, CA 92832.  Thank you.

AB 1807 is supported by CFT, CTA, CPFA, CWA, and FACCC