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AFT 1493 Bargaining Prioritization Survey Oct. 2025

Our current contract expired June 30, 2025, and after 20 negotiations, we have just two scheduled sessions remaining before we either reach Tentative Agreement, OR we go to mediation and/or impasse. Impasse is a multi-step process involving the Public Employee Relations Board (PERB), and if we go through the impasse process and don't reach agreement, we can strike after a membership vote.

We need your input on the issues we're still negotiating. What issue(s) are most important to you, and what are you willing to do to win fair contract terms on those issues?

The survey is open through Friday, 10/17/2025. For more details on the specific issues below, check out our negotiations updates.

Thank you for your input! ~AFT 1493 Negotiations Team and Executive Committee
1.First and Last Name(Required.)
2.Your non-SMCCD email address
3.Your phone number (optional)
4.Employment status(Required.)
5.What is your primary role?(Required.)
6.Your primary division is...(Required.)
7.Please advise how important each item is to you in the collective bargaining agreement, from "Not important" to "I Would Go On Strike for This."(Required.)
Not Important
Somewhat Important
Very Important
I Would Go On Strike for This
Compensation: fair annual raises (see Q8 to give input on what is "fair")
Load: Increase FLCs for Labs, set reasonable FLC/class size for English Comp and Calc
Load/ Compensation: load-based pay for PT faculty and FT overload (also known as "pay by FLC")
Healthcare & Benefits: increased contributions to health & dental benefits, paid family leave, and enhanced retirement options, etc.
Academic Freedom: Language protecting faculty discipline expertise in performing professional duties from management interference and censorship; protection of faculty's right to speak freely as a citizen
Workplace Health & Safety: expanded faculty rights regarding safety concerns, specific protections for transgender & nonbinary faculty, etc.
8.What is your bottom line for annual salary increases in this 3-year contract? For context: in our last contract, we averaged 5% annual raises. The District's last offer was for average annual raises of 3.25% for instructional part-timers, and 2.75% for everyone else. Our last proposal was for 6% average annual raises.
9.If you indicated you would go on strike over any of these issues, please pledge to help us reach strike-readiness by committing to speak to and organize your colleagues to vote when we send out a "strike ready" survey, likely in November.
10.Is there anything else you'd like us to know as we strategize for these negotiations?