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Ke part-time association has
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■ them lose 2.5 percent over
Byears with no cost of living
Ke, according to Teetor.
Köther issue that both sides are
Kto modify is sick leave. The
■me association has made a
(move and proposed that the
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ney Wilton, vice president of
¡e services, are both members
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ot proposed a salary cut but
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■ increase.
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proposing a (salary) cut, it’s
it out not accurate. There is
itely an increase proposed,
alw ays is a debate over what
¡(¡equate increase but I’m not
largue what’s adequate,” said
In regards to sick leave, Lundy
said that currently the cap on
accrual is 12 days but would not
comment on the proposal of the
72 accrual cap by the part-time
association.
“I think that the proposal that
we have on the table is a good
proposal and is generous compared
to what they would see at another
institution,” said Lundy.
According to Lundy, bargaining
meetings have been very few and
she is confident that the two sides
can work out the issues if they were
able to meet more often.
“We will settle. It’s just a ques
tion of how long it will take,”
said Wilton. He didn’t comment on
what would happen if it came to an
ultimatum since he felt that it will
be resolved before coming to that
Both Lundy and Wilton elected
not to comment on the proposals of
the part-time association, instead
stating that there were differences
in several of the article proposals.
Since the contract has not been
final ized and there are several out
standing issues that the association
finds unacceptable, an ultimatum is
a possibility. However, Teetor said
Rosemary Teetor is a part-time instructor at Clackamas and the part-time association president.
Currently the part-time association and the college are negotiating the part-time contract.
that is a decision that part-time fac
ulty are likely not going to make.
“That gets tricky. Once you
issue an ultimatum then you have
nowhere to go; you haven’t left
yourself any options. We’re still
trying to leave options at this
point,” said Teetor.
In bargaining language an ulti
matum is called an impasse. One
side can submit a “take it or leave
it” proposal and the other party
can do just that, take it or leave it
Usually mediation comes before
the thought of impasse, where an
outside party comes in and medi
ates the contract negotiation. After
150 days either side can request
to go to mediation and right now
neither side has decided to do that.
“What can happen following
that on the management side is
something called imposition,” said
Teetor. “They ‘impose’ their so-
called ‘last and best offer’ which
means that they can impose primar
ily anything they want And if they
imposed right now the changes
would be draconian.”
The changes that Teetor feels
would be draconian would be that
sick leave is virtually swept under
the table, a cap will be placed on the
amount of classes part-time faculty
"
can teach, seniority goes away, the
pay cuts are enforced and the col
lege can continue to hire outside
sub-contractors to do the jobs of
part-time faculty without those con
tractors becoming part of the union.
“Mediation is something that
our side discusses all the time,”
said Teetor. “We are interested in it
and we may well be the ones that
say ‘Let’s take this thing to media
tion and see how we do.’ The risk
with mediation is if the mediator
sides with the college ... we’re
done. Getting something back that
we’ve lost in that manner is virtu
ally impossible.”
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