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| Ray |
The Faculty Association [i.e., the union] negotiating team has signed a tentative agreement with the administration which excludes over seventy-five faculty members from the salary increase given to all other faculty members in the form of step advancement. (For the entire "alert," go here)I have no idea whether this claim and others the group makes have merit. (Given the source, I doubt it.)
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| Sharon |
With the exception of Merrifield, this group was at the heart of the Old Guard, the group of stunningly corrupt unionists who, starting about 1996, brought us Raghu Mathur, Steve Frogue, Tom Fuentes, Nancy Padberg, Don Wagner—and, well, lots of ignominy.
Near as I can tell, most of this group have been pretty quiet in the last decade or so. Why are they piping up now?
WHO?
• Ken Woodward: check out Ken's efforts to defend Steve Frogue and our utterly rotten little union on the radio (KPFK) back in 1998: Ken Woodward defends Frogue and our corrupt union (transcripts).• Ray Chandos: check out Ray's bold attempt to whitewash an accreditation self-study on behalf of his pal Raghu Mathur: Whitewash Willy. Ray was the union Old Guard's chief scribbler; he put out its stunningly scabrous newsletter.
• Sherry Miller-White: here's an old article that describes Sherry's special way with union meetings: Time for Pie. See also The End Justifies the Means, Evidently
• The Old Guard: Well, just how bad did it get under the leadership of the Old Guard? Check out The Same-Sex Flier. See also A Motley Crew of Nazis, The trustee race of '98, How the Old Guard got Wagner and Padberg elected.
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| Channing |
• Michael Channing: Channing was the union's Secretary during its most appalling era (c. 1996). He was instrumental in producing the infamous homophobic Same-Sex Flier.
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| Woodward |
SEE ALSO Adventures in Advertising: The real purpose behind gay-baiting at Saddleback College, OC Weekly, Nov. 15, 1996
30 comments:
post the full email
The full e-mail went out to everyone I suspect. No need to send it again, especially since it was so poorly written. And the writer(s) really didn't know the audience to whom it was being sent.
I got the email - everyone did. No need to post in full here. The blog is a place for discourse.
I was offended by the tone of the email. My association rep has taken the time to explain to us the contract - as have leadership over the course of a few months. All of this is meant to address earlier oversights and benefit the majority of faculty - full AND part-time.
PLUS - a majority of the signatories were the folks behind the anti-gay rhetoric of the board majority - why should I trust a damn thing they say? BIGOTS.
"I have no idea whether this claim and others the group makes have merit. (Given the source, I doubt it.)" Why not get up off your intellectual butt and examine their claim for merit rather than attacking the messengers with another massive regurgitation of past (slanted) history? You're supposed to be a philosophy instructor.
The history of the "OLD GUARD"--use of bigoted mailers (some 20K of union money), credit cards used by some officers that were never approved by the members (hell, no one knew of them until an audit occurred), the calling of campus police on several of us who attended meetings where we requested copies of the FA By-Laws, shifting of PAC monies between different accounts, and then CTA came in to verify what those of us were pointing out: a very few were NOT representing the majority of FT and PT faculty. And then there was the buying and selling of Board members. Slanted history? Slanted by those who controlled our union then and allowed the top of the faculty salary schedule to increase while decreasing the number of years an in-coming faculty member could use. That is slanted.
Roy and others have accurately, over the years and with clear documentation, depicted the corruption that was in that FA officer group. Several of those former officers are putting their names to the recently written e-mail attack on our current bargaining team for the proposed and tentative agreement with our District.
Me thinks bvd is trying to cloud the main issue with all this union tripe that happened 15 years ago. Me thinks bvd has failed as a senator, voting YES on the demise of the MRC without having all the facts. Me thinks bvd just wants to be accepted by his collegues and thats why he voted YES.
8:50, methinks you're a shitty writer and thinker and I do ask you to stop commenting. You've made your point. Now shut up. You've become tiresome.
BvT, I agree with 8:50. Something's rotten in Denmark and it ain't about stuff that happened 15 years ago. If you've grown tired, just go to bed.
You think avant guard is any better?
Thanks for covering these issues. I hope you know most of your readers do not share the views offered by the cranks.
I think our union has come a long way and is doing the right thing to address inequities. The vast majority of faculty - full and part-time - will benefit from the new contract.
Faculty salary at top of the steps is frozen. That is not shared sacrifice nor equitable. Roy you are a smart person seperate the people and their history from what they are asking. You may realize that you got screwed by this tentative agreement too!
Take the emotion out of it and just do the numbers and report back.
I trust the current union leadership to do the right thing in hard times and tell it to us straight - as they always have done. I remember McMillan, Miller-White, Chandos, et al. - how they willingly aligned the association with anti-Semitic and homophobic forces - it was worse than awful. They knew it was wrong but did it anyway in order to personally profit. We are better than that.
We ARE better than that. wasn't this the group behind the almost firing of a certain popular bio teacher back in the day? Wasn't Mr. Chandos himself deeply involved in that scandal? Don't fall for it folks.
The current leadership has worked long and hard to address inequities deeply rooted in the system - it's not all about salaries at the top of the scale - it's about equity across the board, in salaries and benefits.
I support them.
Part time faculty DID NOT receive the email. That means a predominant portion of faculty have not a clue what is going on with the contract (unless they read this blog, of course). Since the FA now takes a chunk of our measly paychecks (without our consent), we need to know developments such as these. It appears the FA is as transparent as the administration.
I believe the part-time faculty receive updates from the leadership like others do. They are also invited to the regular union meetings - one will happen during flex week - GO!
That Ray didn't include adjunct in his email is his decision. I think he did so because the new proposed contract has many gains for adjunct faculty so it is not in his interest to alert them. Do you see what I mean?
post the full email
The union - like the senate - will have a meeting next week.
(PS - how funny people go on this blog and make demands - do this, do that. No please or thank you. I suggest they get their own blog and then link from this one.)
1:58, don't assume that everyone received the email from Ray simply because you did. The FA could forward these along, but they choose not to, for whatever reason (perhaps they were busy). BvT, if it is not too much trouble, could you please post the full email for all to see?
Ray and Co. sent it to F-T faculty and not the majority P-T deliberately.
The FA has no obligation to forward emails like these along - why should they?
6:55, I did leave a link to the whole "alert." It's near the start of From the people...
I concur with 10:42 P.M.: PT faculty were shafted by the "Old Guard" so why should this group be concerned with non-FT folks?
10:42 and I:09, this is yet another reason why this blog is essential as a source of information which either lost in cracks or deliberately withheld. Thank you BvT.
It is my opinion the the latest faculty contract is only another step towards mitigating an incredibly biased scheme that favored the most senior few. Year after year Saddleback would be near the top for highest facutly pay and near the lowest for starting faculty pay. This is finally being addressed.
I would also opine that it would have been political suicide if the top few got raises as I could see the OC Register jumping all over those numbers while we are still in this economic status.
The emailed allegations against the current faculty association are outrageous IMO.
Charles Myers
Charles, in your pursuit of "fairness" what about the agreement(s) these senior faculty had going into their jobs? Agreements that no doubt contained compensation for longevity. They have performed their jobs well, and for a very long time; they delivered to the district year after year, and now their own association is basically selling them off down the river. You think this is "fair?" How would you like if it happened to you?
I am unaware of any agreement with senior faculty that says they will be disproportionately paid vis a vis their colleagues. That is what previous contracts did and I applaud the more equitable distribution - greatest good for the greatest many and finally not another example of blatant feather nesting by those in control.
I honestly think that only a person who is A) part of the highly paid elite and B)blatantly greedy even if it comes at the expense of the lesser compensated (who are frequently those trying to buy homes and raise families) could maintain the veiws you are espousing.
Why not come clean and post your name? I'm guessing that criteria A and B might possibly have been already leveled by others...
Charles Myers
People who have reached the top of the salary scale continue to be well-compensated for their labor. The new contract addresses those who have historically been left out. I support it even though I am closer to the end of my teaching career than the beginning.
If you are really serious about flattening the salary schedule, let's eliminate the top (highest) step in every column. How does that sound?
Abject shittitude? So subjective it's laughable because everyone knows you and your pals (the real power mongers) have had an axe to grind against these good people even way before ya’ll lost power.
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