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New contract approved by faculty

Submitted by Jenni on May 10, 2011 - 8:03pm

This evening the full-time faculty at MHCC and the Board of Education came to an agreement on a new three year contract. Details are forthcoming. The tentative contract now has to be ratified by the Board to become official.

There will be a celebration on the Gresham campus on Wedneday, May 11 at 5 p.m.

So what does "non-instructional" mean?

Submitted by Jenni on May 5, 2011 - 8:07pm

So today the school releases another document about the negotiations with the faculty (PDF). It is filled with a lot of phrases that are just downright disrespectful and not beneficial to a negotiation process, such as suggesting that faculty has intentionally drawn out this process.

One part of it is discussing the non-economic areas the two sides disagree on. It states:

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Wednesday night's budget meeting

Submitted by Jenni on May 5, 2011 - 5:56pm

Wednesday night hundreds of students, faculty, staff, and community members turned out to the MHCC Budget Committee meeting.

First, we met outside the College Theater on the steps, hearing a few quick words from Oregon Education Association representatives and support from union members from around the area and state. These representatives included those from area K-12 education associations as well as those from trade and labor unions and other community colleges.

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May 2nd mediation report

Submitted by Jenni on May 3, 2011 - 11:33pm

From the Faculty Association:

After 12 hours of mediation, we are no closer to settling the contract. But we have learned a number of important things about the Board's positions and mentality.

1) This is NOT about money.

We made a package proposal late in the evening that met the total dollar amount that the Board requested earlier in the day. In economic issues, we met their requests on extra and summer teach, salary, and medical. All together these CUTS would have amounted to $3.1 million.

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Use The Bus Or Pass

Submitted by Average Student on May 3, 2011 - 7:52am
We have an opportunity to us The Bus from thebusproject.org, my question is...Who will ride the bus if we set up an event? The Bus costs about $400 per day. In order to be able to fund using the bus we will need help. If we were to "sell" tickets on The Bus, Who will ride? We don't have a cost per ticket yet, but as you can tell the more riders the cheaper the tickets. We can also use this time with the bus to rally and make know that the students, THE CONSUMER, can and will take action to be heard.
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Full-time faculty turns in their notice to strike

Submitted by Jenni on April 28, 2011 - 2:48pm

Today in front of a large crowd of students, faculty, and other staff, the full-time faculty association announced they have given notice to MHCC and will go on strike beginning at 5 a.m. on Thursday, May 12.

Recently the board has been quoted as saying that by a unanimous decision of the board that faculty who strike could be replaced with permanent replacements. That's right - I said PERMANENT. As in they are going to bring in people completely new to the school and they will be there from now on and even when all of this is over our faculty will not be able to return.

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Press conference Thursday on strike plans

Submitted by Jenni on April 27, 2011 - 8:25pm

PRESS CONFERENCE TOMORROW - MAIN MALL - 12:30pm - BRIEFING ON STRIKE PLANS...

On Thursday, April 28, 2011, members of Mount Hood Community College’s full-time faculty association will hold a short press briefing to outline plans as the Association moves toward a possible strike next month.

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Logos or...

Submitted by Jenni on April 27, 2011 - 4:52pm

I want to start a new series on where should our money go - $310,000 for a new logo and look for the web site or... and then we fill in the "or". Since all site members have the ability to post blogs or comments to blogs, you can participate in either way. All you have to do is tag your blog with "or..." (without the quotes) as the Topic for your blog.

Note: You don't have to do the logo/redesign as the first choice.

Today's installment:

MHCC logo  or  Ceiling damage

Logos or ceilings

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The budget is not "available"

Submitted by Jenni on April 27, 2011 - 12:46pm

So a few days ago, I put in a request to get the long version of the budget. The document handed out at the Budget Committee was general and very devoid of details. In it there was language about cuts to be made and where savings would be found, but no details on what that would be. Numbers didn't even match with what had previously been discussed by the school, particularly with regards to instruction and savings because of cuts to programs, instructor pay, layoffs, etc. 

There were generic categories saying how much would be spent, but no details on how it would be spent.

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Deciding on a budget without the details

Submitted by Jenni on April 25, 2011 - 3:15pm

Last week, the board was given the proposed budget for 2011-12. As you can see here, it is just a short PDF with some explanatory text, a few tables of numbers, and that's it. While it was handed out as the proposed budget and was called the proposed budget, they are now calling it the "budget summary".

No detailed information on where the money in each category is included.

No descriptions of what is included in each category.

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