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Part-timers searching
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By Brian Baldwin
News Editor
Two sides sit across from each other at a table. One
side offers a piece of paper of what they want, then the
other side scribbles on it, saying that this *is what they
want it to say instead. In the middle is a button, a button
that they both share to call in support in this negotiation.
Neither side is reaching for it, instead continuing to pass
proposals back and forth until they agree on them all.
Currently, Clackamas Community College’s collective
bargaining team is in negotiations with the part-time fac­
ulty association to agree on a contract for the next three
years. The negotiations have been ongoing since July and
the majority of the contract has been agreed upon, but it
has not been finalized. There are several issues that the
part-time association said are unacceptable, such as a sal­
ary cut and doing away with Clackamas unique no-cap
policy for part-time instructors on the amount of classes
they can teach.
“In 2007 ... we were in a similar situation but not
for the same reasons,” said Rosemary Teetor, part-time
instructor and president of the part-time association.
“What we have this year are proposals that are unaccept­
able.”
According to Teetor, one of the changes that could
happen is a four percent pay cut over the next three
years. The college did not provide them with an explana­
tion.
“I suspect that if we asked the first thing we would
hear is ‘The economy, budget Cuts and lower state sup­
port,”’ said Teetor.
The association has submitted several proposals
that Teetor said the college’s bargaining team have not
responded to. Instead the association received a reworded
proposal that is “so far off the mark” that the associa­
tion will simply resubmit the same proposal at the next
bargaining meeting. Teetor is also asking the question of
“Why us?”
“Why are we being asked to take cuts when every­
one else got raises? And it’s not just the classified and
full-time faculty, it’s also all of the exempt staff,” said
Teetor. “The exempt staff tends to get the same kinds
of increases that the full-time faculty gets. For many of
them, those are larger salaries so one percent for a full-
time faculty member is different than a one percent for a
dean.”
Both full-time fac­
ulty and execcu-
tive pay is set to be
’ raised next year
Proposed part-time
faculty pay cut over
the next three years
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Musical mayhem shakes the college
By Patty Salazar
The Clackamas Print
die band’s songs. Conner describes their
current songs taking after As I Lay Dying,
sound wise.
Conner, who recently broke his hand at
work, explained how it was going to affect
his playing. “I figured if I had to, I can duct
tape a stick to my hand. I’m not going to
not play for Battle of die Bands.”
Underwood said his initial reaction was
“Can you play?jand then “A§ you OICH
“It all started with a $100 guitar and
a $150 drum set,” said Coiy Conner, the
drummer for The Finest Hour.
What’s next is the Battle of the Bands
on April 29, where The Finest Hour will
compete against two other bands in the
Gregory Forum of Clackamas Community
College.
In addition to Conner, The Finest Hour
also consists of Michael Underwood,
mer is hurt they are not ;
rhythm guitar and vocals; Vartan Friedman, affect tire show on Friday,
lead guitar, Hunter Collingwood, who
made it clear that they
plays the bass and Jimi Bench, lead vocals.
competition and they are
Although Friedman and Collingwood the community.
attend Clackamas Community College,
Also perfbnning m
they heard about the school’s Battle of the
Bands are Horse Eats F
Bands from Bench.
Robert & Co., though only
They describe themselves as progres­ of
sive metal with their influences including
System ofa Down, Slip Knot and As 1 Lay
Dying. Underwood aril Bench write all of
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