Notification of College of the Redwoods’ Faculty Organization’s Interests in Negotiating
the Following Articles of the Collective Bargaining Agreement with the Redwoods
Community College District
November 1, 2015
In compliance with the Educational Employee Rights Act (“EERA”), the College of the
Redwoods Faculty Organization (CRFO) is making public at an open session board meeting its
initial proposals for bargaining with the Redwoods Community College District (RCCD).
The CRFO remains steadfastly committed to the well-being of our college and its faculty, and it
is committed to bargaining in good faith to reach settlement in these negotiations as soon as
possible.
Article III: Wages and Working Conditions
The CRFO intends to offer proposals regarding the faculty and associate faculty
compensation structures and ways to mitigate the ongoing impacts of repeated step freezes
and salary concessions during the last decade.
The CRFO intends to offer proposals to clarify language in a number of areas, including but
not limited to load banking processes for non-teaching faculty, temporary assignment
changes, additional faculty responsibilities, multipliers for large-format and telepresence”
courses, faculty professional responsibilities as described in Schedule F-1, and new faculty
nonteaching load credit.
Article IV: Leaves
The CRFO will offer proposals to include language that provides leave for attendance at
professional and educational conferences.
Article V: Insurance
The CRFO intends to offer proposals to incorporate on the CBA the principles of MOU 2013-1614: NCSMIG Medical Plan “Buy-Up” Option.
Article VII: Prereitrement Reduction of Workload with STRS Service Credit
The CRFO intends to offer proposals to create a PERS preretirement workload reduction
program for faculty.
Article VIII: Partial Leave Program
The CRFO intends to offer proposals to include appropriate references to PERS faculty and
District contributions that may result from the participation of a faculty member in a PERS
preretirement workload reduction program.
Article X: Transfer and Reassignment
The CRFO intends to offer proposals to clarify language and processes related to faculty transfer
and reassignment.
Article XI – Faculty Tenure and Evaluation
The CRFO intends to offer proposals to integrate the faculty and associate faculty scheduling
principles and procedures established by MOU 2013-16-8.
The CRFO intends to offer proposals to increase the efficiency of the faculty and associate
faculty evaluation process and to eliminate contradictory and/or vague language related to
faculty tenure and evaluation processes.
Article XII – Instruction Activities by Administrators
The CRFO intends to offer proposals to establish clear criteria to be used for assigning teaching
duties to any administrator.
Organizational Security
The CRFO intends to propose a union security clause setting forth the method for District
collection and distribution of CRFO member dues and/or agency fees.
Reassigned time for Academic Senate
The CRFO intends to offer proposals to codify established past practice of providing yearly
reassigned time to the Academic Senate.
Academic Freedom
The CRFO will offer proposals to define “academic freedom” and to establish relevant faculty
and associate faculty rights.
Intellectual Property
The CRFO intends to offer proposals to establish faculty and associate faculty intellectual
property rights.