Overview of Tentative Agreements for Contract Ratification 2025
A Tentative Agreement (TA) is one made between the district and union bargaining teams. The TAs go into effect once they are ratified by the union membership and approved by the trustees. CCFT is presenting the following TAs for ratification with a brief description and link to related documents that include the signed clean TA (pdf) and a redline that shows how the previous version was altered (MS Word).
1. TA 1: Article 5.12.2.2 load limit for PT faculty
Now indicates that the 67% loading rule is from the State Ed code and not subject to local bargaining. Ancillary duties do not count towards 67% rule to maximize what PT faculty can earn.
2. TA 2: Article 5.10 Online Education
Updates language regarding DE courses as proposed by Instructional Designer, DE regulations, and Online Ed Committee. Conforms to current language and practices
3. TA 3: Article 5 Work Hours and Work year
This includes the following related to Article 5:
- Improved compensation for Service Faculty (PT and FT)
- Gives Service Faculty the option of working 175 or 192 days per year. Loads are now calculated on 192 hours, which brings them up to pro-rata pay compared to instructional faculty.
- Defines work hours for Service Faculty, which includes prep.
- Online education (same as TA 2)
- Funding for PT faculty to do Senate work (same as TA 13)
4. TA 4: Article 4 Compensation
- Describes salary increase above COLA, fringe increase, PT office hour increase, and selected stipend increases for the next 2 years.
- All PT faculty now have at least 9 hours of compensated (and required) office hours per semester.
- We are working on a temporary MOU to provide additional office hours to PT faculty.
5. TA 5: Article 4.2 PT faculty Health Care program clarification
This clarifies that the requirement is either 4.2.1 or 4.2.2 and not both.
6. TA 6 Article 4.7.1 PT step advancement
Allows lab to count as load instead of units for PT step advancement.
7. TA 7: Article 4.7.3 Cooperative Work Experience load instead of hourly
Changes compensation for Cooperative Work Experience faculty to load instead of hourly pay to be consistent with new Ed Code regulations. Pay for these faculty will increase automatically with salary schedule increases, and mileage is not limited.
8. TA 8: Article 4.8 Faculty travel
SLO County General Service Administration (GSA) per diem rates are generally among the highest in the country, the highest are only $6 per day more than SLO. Current rate is $86 for a full day. See full rates here. Lodging rate is still paid at cost of lodging, not GSA. We’ll never have to renegotiate rates again as GSA is updated each year. This will be easier for staff in Fiscal, too. Same terms apply to all college employees.
9. TA 9: Article 4.9 Split and Dual Mileage
Defines dual assignment and split assignment, Mileage defined now as between sites, not home to site. Reduces need for faculty to submit maps and routes for each trip. District would not budge on including PT in dual assignment.
10. TA 10: Article 7 Evaluation
Major revisions mostly to flow and organization. Adds a meeting between the dean and the DTC after evaluations but before post evaluation meetings to help with consistency. DTC can use that meeting to help the dean understand what the faculty have observed.
11. TA 11: Article 6 Workload Exchange changes
Workload Exchange is now allowable between FT to FT or PT to PT. If PT subs for FT, PT get sub pay at their step and column rate.
12. TA 12: Article 9 Disciplinary Actions
Removes pre-disciplinary hearing requirement and removes confidentiality by employee requirement.
13. TA 13 Article 5.6.4.3 Funding Academic Senate for PT governance/committee work
This is a new agreement. District will provide $5,000 per year to compensate PT faculty for participation in governance/committee work under the discretion of Academic Senate.
14. TA 14: Appendix B-8 SLOA Pay
SLOA pay is now on faculty member’s step and column not a set rate.
15. TA 15: Appendix B-9
Increases maximum initial placement from step 8 to step 10. Removes salary match provision (no longer allowable per CA law.)
16. TA 16 Appendix B-10
- Increases some stipends (coaching, performing arts) by 3%.
- Eliminates discipline specific stipends so they can be applied across disciplines.
- Changes sub pay to step and column on PT/FT OT lab rate, and renames 2/3 lab rate to “ancillary duties”.
- Puts MUS 212 faculty pay at step and column instead of D-7 (increase for almost all current faculty)