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AFT LOCAL 1828 �Summer 2025 �Negotiations Update

August 6 & 7

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WHAT ‘S �AFT 1828’s�TEAM �BEEN UP TO?

from 8.5.25 AFT Update

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  • May 21 – Dual Enrollment: The union president and chief negotiator met with the district to discuss the dual enrollment agreement with K-12 districts for AY2025/2026.  This was not a negotiations meeting, rather an information sharing session to ensure the new agreements do not violate any aspects of the current CBA
  • June 17 - Mediation: The negotiations team met with the district at their offices in Camarillo to engage in our first mediation session over compressed calendar negotiations.  We started at 8:30 that morning and ended at 4:00 PM.   
  • June 24 – June 28 – CFT Summer School: Members of the EC and the Major CBA negotiations team attended the CFT Summer School in Los Angeles to learn more about negotiating a better contract and DEI in the classroom.
  • July 2 – PT Health Benefits: AFT met with the district to address concerns about PT health benefits and some overpayment that occurred on the district’s part during AY 2024/25.  AFT ensured that those faculty affected would not be harmed.  Eligible PT faculty who opted to enroll in the district’s employee +1 or family health benefit plans were contacted through email about any changes for AY 2025/26.
  • August 4 - Responding to ICE Activity on Campus: EC members attended the “Responding to ICE Activity on Campus” training held at the district yesterday.  AFT 1828 will be working closely with the district to address our concerns that came from the training in regard to faculty working conditions and rights that center around this extremely important topic.

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COMPRESSED CALENDAR NEGOTIATIONS

MEDIATION & IMPASSSE UPDATE

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WALKING YOU BACK

  • Monday, March 17 – AFT Local 1828 declared an impasse on the Compressed Calendar Negotiations and informed the district they would need to arrange for impasse. 
  • Monday, May 5 – A date was agreed to for mediation with the mediator, the district, and AFT.
  • Wednesday, June 17 – First day of mediation
  • Next Meeting – August 28 at 10:00 AM at district office

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  • What occurs in mediation must remain confidential between the two parties.
  • We are only allowed to state that mediation is still underway
  • The following slides are from our April 2, 2025 AFT Know What’s Up (member update) and board comments made June 10, 2025

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Where we are stuck?

Proposals that are going nowhere

FROM AFT KNOW WHAT’S UP PRESENTED 4.7.25

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ARTICLE �FIVE

  • Compensation for teaching more student contact hours: 
    • If some faculty teach more student contact hours during a compressed calendar than they would throughout a traditional calendar, they should be compensated. 
    • In the last AFT survey, the majority of faculty members stated that they would not ratify the contract if faculty were not compensated for the additional student contact hours. 

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APPLIES ONLY �TO �FULLY LIVE coterminous (full semester) classes

  • Under a compressed calendar, we will no longer be using the hours in our COR’s to determine scheduling patterns. The State Chancellor’s Office indicated that they will not approve any district moving to a compressed calendar that does not use 18 hours as a basis for a one unit class.
  • Remember that under a traditional calendar we used 17.5 hours as a basis for a one unit class. Ultimately, this means that all people who teach live courses will teach more hours under a compressed calendar.
  • The guidance for break times will not change with a compressed calendar.

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WATCH �

  • AFT chief explains the issue at June 10, 2025 VCCCD Board Meeting

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THE SOLUTION

  • Move forward in same video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dImyK0-4vKo) to view AFT Grievance Chair present the solution
  • Starts at 39:36

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�TOTAL TEACHING HOURS �PER SEMESTER �SUMMARY�

  • 3 Unit Class :
  • Traditional calendar: 52.5 hours
  • Compressed calendar: 54.4 hours
  • 4 unit class:
  • Traditional calendar: 70 hours
  • Compressed calendar: 73.6 hours

NOTE: These extra teaching hours have nothing to do with “breaks”.

Breaks are state mandated based on the length of the class meeting.

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SO WHY ARE WE TEACHING MORE??

Two Reasons:

  1. We are basing on 18 hours instead of 17.5 (because the state requires us to)
  2. Math. Specifically rounding issues. We are required to round up so we will not schedule less than 18 hours. Rounding up is ‘complicated.’

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OTHER ITEMS �from 4.2.25 �AFT Update

  • Additional contract days for counseling faculty to conduct important duties
    • collaborate with instructional faculty, academic programs, university/community partners, and college district partners (e.g institutional effectiveness, Program Mapper, Degreeworks, etc.) 
    • The district will only offer a stipend workgroup for non-classroom to address converting to a compressed calendar.  
  • Stipend for converting to a compressed calendar
  • Scheduling short-term classes

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Declaring Impasse

Timeline and Procedures

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IF MEDIATION FAILS �FACT FINDING

  • The mediator will release both parties if they feel they cannot come to agreement and then the parties move to the stage of fact finding.

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  • A three-person impartial panel will convene and conduct a hearing. The three-person panel is comprised of one person chosen by AFT Local 1828, one person chosen by the district, and one person who both parties agree to who is a neutral, independent fact-finding panel chairperson from a list of qualified labor relations professionals supplied by the state. If both parties cannot agree, then a neutral chairperson will be assigned. 
  • At this hearing, both parties present their arguments and data.
  • The panel will then deliberate and issue the fact-finding report with non-binding recommendations to the Board of Trustees

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VCCCD BOARD �& THE REPORT

  • The Board can accept the fact finding report as-is, or accept it with modifications, reject the whole report outright, or order its District team back to the negotiations table with AFT for further attempt(s). 
  • One final option for the District would be to impose the District’s last and final offer on the faculty. 

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END �RESULTS

  • The state collective bargaining law requires that once the fact-finding report is issued, the parties must meet at least one more time to see if they can reach a negotiated settlement based on the report. 
  • The report must be made public by the district after 30 days, complete with all proposals
  • Can the district decide not to convert to a compressed calendar if the mediator or panel does not side in their favor? If they decide to do this, AFT can demand to bargain. They cannot decide to not go into compressed calendar. They have to bargain.

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HOW CAN I ENGAGE?

GET INVOLVED WITH UNION

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JOIN �THE EC

  • Assistant Grievance Chair (appointed position)
  • Membership (new position)
  • Part-Time faculty member for AFT/VCCCD Health Benefits Committee (appointed position)
  • See Bylaws on AFT Website for position descriptions (must be a member to access and registered with the site)

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SHOW UP �& �SPEAK �AT �BOARD MEETINGS

  • It works
  • In person is better than written comments
  • Seeing new faces makes a greater impression

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GET INVOLVED �IN THE CAMPAIGN

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  • Take the surveys. Encourage others to complete them.
  • We are looking for campus leaders to communicate with your divisions, departments, people in your hall.
  • We need people to help with social media campaigns
  • The district needs to see you are engaged in real time (board meetings, AFT events

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YOUR �AFT 1828 CAMPUS�VICE PRESIDENTS

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MAJOR CBA �REOPENER

The team and timeline

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THE �TEAM

  • Nathan Cole (chief) – FT Ventura College (Theatre Arts)
  • Lee Ballestero – FT Moorpark College (Political Science)
  • Russell Gardner –  FT Ventura College (Automotive Career Education)
  • Paula Munoz – FT Ventura College (EOPS Coordinator) 
  • Lilia Rubacalva – FT Oxnard College (Math)
  • Angela Wilkinson – PT Moorpark College (Math)