CCC Board Walks Out?

The Union negotiating team didn't have a chance to put on the pyjamas, because the City Colleges Board left the negotiating table.

I really hoped to put good news on the site today, but the Board is intent on running the Colleges into the ground, right when students are about to start demanding a tuition refund.

Here's the news from Union Chapter Chair Anthony Johnston:

"Our negotiating team came to the table this afternoon with the intention of bargaining in good faith and staying until a tentative contract was reached. We believed the Board also had this wish. Now it is clear that Board wanted no such thing and is holding our contract hostage and causing students even more delays through stone walling and delay tactics. We sent our proposals through the mediator and their response was a blank page. They only appeared today because they were pressured into it by our publicity and student sentiment.

The Board was not willing to listen to any of our proposals. Despite what you may have read from the Board propaganda, their latest proposals only offer faculty 3% and they are offering professionals 2%. The Part-Time Professionals and Security is even worse at 1%. On health insurance we are still far apart.

This is clearly an attempt to bust our union and impose their own terms. We will not be busted. The past few days have shown the real face not only of the district office, but of administration at all levels. They are intimidating us, students, and other educational workers who support us."

So, it looks like I have to run back to the picket line -- see you there!

Posted by Benjamin at October 25, 2004 08:35 AM
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