① One objection concerns the proposed fate of “75” senior faculty who (they say) are at the highest paid step in their "column." You see, the DOGs noticed these features of the proposed contract:
• Elimination of the lowest two steps of each column on the salary schedule, increasing the base salary;
• Each faculty member not at the highest paid step in her column will receive an additional step increase, in addition to the regular step increase, in the fall of 2010*
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| FA Prez Long: often compared to a Boy Scout, "only less cynical" |
So they're like a dog without a bone. All snarly.
② The other flea-bitten objection concerns alleged “discriminatory lab compensation decisions.” I shall assume that the objection refers specifically to the following mangy feature of the proposed contract:
• Load value equivalency to lecture (1 for 1) for Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Geology and Nursing labs.The problem for the money-grubbing mongrels, evidently, is that this “upgrade” in the valuation of an instructor’s “lab” hours is visited only upon Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Geology, and Nursing instructors.
"What about all us other labbers?" howl the DOGs.
(Gosh, I had no idea so much labbing went on!)
Below, I present the relevant verbiage of the old (2007) contract and the proposed (2011) contract:
OLD CONTRACT:
NEW CONTRACT:
*I found the three contract features referred to here in FA President Lewis Long's Aug. 1 email to faculty
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| Labs come in several varieties |
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| A group of employees--mostly biologists--vandalizing property at Irvine Valley College |
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| One particularly notorious School at IVC actually teaches vandalism. |
18 comments:
Roy, you're a hound, but thanks for the clarification!
Oh gee, I see. So according to this article, people who wish to keep what they worked very hard to earn and what rightfuly belongs to them, are terrible, disgruntled mangy dogs who are somehow greedy and crazy. Sounds the same as what's been a-spew'n from the white house the last few years; ya know, spread the wealth, class warfare, etc... I'm just say'n...
I have great respect and appreciation for our negotiating team, but I did wonder why only certain groups were referenced in terms of the laboratory compensation. Many schools have done away with the differential compensation for lecture and laboratory completely. Seems like the way to go. Maybe that is the long-term plan.
I too have great respect and appreciation for our negotiating team and recognize the historical inequity that they are addressing in this most recent proposal. to that end - how many people ARE receiving raises? How do these raises compare to the ones this group (often overlooked) has received in the past?
Thanks!
Love the blog!
6:42, I see you watch Fox News. So I guess I'm wasting my time responding to you. You probably barking mad.
This post doesn't really call the Old Guardsters "mangy dogs." It's all in fun. You might notice that I even call the proposed contract "mangy."
Get it? It's a motif. It's a mastiff. It's like an Alsatian!
Get a sense of humor, dude. Whoof.
Aren't you on sabbatical?
Seriously though - thanks for putting the pieces together. I appreciate it. I always thought of the old guard as self-serving scoundrels who were willing to throw their gay colleagues (and so many others) under the bus in order to secure bigger paychecks for themselves and their pals. They're doing it again.
Yes, I'm on Sabbatical, but that's for the fall. Ain't it still summer? Well, OK, guess not.
Yeah bvt. Fox News is a great source compared to what, Rachel Madow?
I myself follow the BBC and most international press - including Canada's. Also NPR. Don't know about Roy.
I also read Dissent - which I find a good source of all news SOCCCD.
I didn't think anyone would be foolish enough to rely on NPR after those scandals and all...
You have to go over seas to get reliable news? Like the state-run BBC really knows what really goes on in our country?
I'll agree Dissent is an excellent source for everything SOCCCD, but always taken with a grain of salt as it's always biased to the left.
Oh, and I'm not barking mad either. Sorry bvt.
8:22, I think you meant to write "biased towards reason". And yes, 7:50 is correct that foreign press is much more objective in their reporting on issues in the US than the commercial US media. Al Jazeera is very good.
What's "fair" in a contract depends on where you're sitting.
Years ago, and 100 miles down the road from you all, I was on a negotiating team that bargained a standard x percent across-the-board salary increase.
"That's not fair," complained some old-timers. "X percent for an administrator is more than x percent for me because administrators make more money than I do. They're getting a bigger raise."
True enough. So the next time we negotiated, we proposed that every step of the salary schedule be increased by x thousand dollars. Everyone gets the same raise, right?
"That's not fair," complained the same group of old-timers. "Someone at the low end of the salary schedule would get a 10 percent raise, but I'm only getting 5 percent."
That's true enough, too.
Lesson #1: You're never going to make everyone happy. Lesson #2: Folks at SOCCCD--a Basic Aid district--should realize that you're the lucky ones. Most other cc faculty members in the State haven't seen a raise in years, and some are looking at take-aways.
I'm jealous.
--100 miles down the road
Tell us more about those NPR "scandals and all."
Please.
We thought you were so informed. Doesn't the firing of Juan Williams ring a bell? Then there's the executive scandals. How about NPR using our tax money to push their liberal agenda? So bogged down in scandals, they are. Hardly a reliabe news source.
Good points, as usual, 100 miles down the road. I appreciate the perspective.
Bvd, you're an A-Hole! Oh, I really didn't mean you're an a-hole per say; it was all in good fun, you see. Why? Because I was using it in the context of hyperbole. What’s the matter, ain’t you got a sense of humor? It was funny BTW, don’t ya know? It’s funny because I said it is, so sit down and shut up because I’m the professor and you’re the student, ya know…
3:15, how was the Williams matter a "scandal"? It was some overwrought PC reaction, yes, but hardly scandalous. Look to the Murdoch problems for a true scandal.
It's also obvious that you've enver listened to NPR. If you think "Car talk" has a liberal agenda, then please get some therapy. The programs offer movie reviews, stories of interest around the world, and cultural reviews. They do have the excellent "left, right, and center" for political debate which you probably won't like, because there is a debate from different points of view.
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