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By Lauren Blanchard. Attached are the signed tentative agreement, as well as a summary of the contract changes prepared by Alan Haffa. This agreement provides workload and salary benefits for faculty. It also includes a provision related to the implementation of the student centered funding formula, which you should read completely– I have attached a…
By Lauren Blanchard. MPCTA’s negotiating team is very near an agreement with the District. The bargaining teams met until 6pm yesterday. Currently the agreement is being drafted into a single document by Jon Knolle. I anticipate that the MPCTA team will sign it on Monday of next week. However, we agreed to expedite the faculty…
By Lauren Blanchard. Although we had planned to have a MPCTA membership meeting tomorrow, we will need to delay because I suffered a badly broken wrist this semester. However, I am happy to announce that today, during negotiations, we were able to reach an agreement with the District. Jon Knolle is going to prepare the…
By Lauren Blanchard. I am writing to remind you all that MPCTA and MPCEA will conduct a joint lunch meeting from 11-2pm on Tuesday August 27 in the Sam Karas room. All six of the applicants for the Area 1 seat on the Board of Trustees have been invited to come meet our college’s faculty…
By Lauren Blanchard. MPCTA will meet for a membership meeting on March 29 at 12:00pm. We will meet in SS104. Our agenda will focus on building committees for document review, a potential MPCTA scholarship, generating ideas for changes to the Evaluations (14) article, and ideas for building membership. I know it has been some time…
By Lauren Blanchard. A big thanks to Elizabeth Mullins, Kathleen Rozman, Wendy Bates and Adria Gerard for counting the MPCTA ballots this morning. The tentative agreement, signed by the MPCTA and District negotiation teams on November 5, 2018, has passed a vote by the faculty. 92 members of the faculty voted during the last week,…
By Lauren Blanchard. The balloting on the Tentative Agreement will begin on Tuesday. That day, MPCTA will also hold a membership meeting to answer questions about the meaning of the Tentative Agreement provisions. We will meet Tuesday, November 13 in SS102 from 3-4:30. The purpose of this meeting will be to answer questions about the…
By Lauren Blanchard. We will have an MPCTA membership meeting on Friday October 19 at 12:30 in the Karas Room to discuss the counter-proposal MPCTA received yesterday. The District has asked MPCTA to respond by 10am on October 24 (presumably because of the Board meeting). As you may recall, at the beginning of September, I inquired…
By Lauren Blanchard. This is a reminder that MPCTA will be meeting twice this week. On Tuesday August 28 from 2-4pm, Erick Carbajal from the National Education Association will be leading a training for our membership drive this semester. This will include a review of the MPCTA priorities, how to enroll new members, and why it…
By Lauren Blanchard. Tonight there will be a candidate forum at the Marina Library at 6pm. This will be for all candidates for elected office in Marina, but both candidates for the MPC Board of Trustees, Margaret Ann Coppernoll and Yuri Anderson will be there to speak. Also, if you are interested in meeting candidates…