{"id":69,"date":"2013-04-19T20:27:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T20:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pft1603.org\/?page_id=69"},"modified":"2013-04-19T20:27:18","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T20:27:18","slug":"e-communique-vol-ii-no-03","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pft1603.org\/?page_id=69","title":{"rendered":"e-Communique Vol. II, No. 03"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>Dear Peralta Community,<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Second Tuesday means it\u2019s time for\u00a0PFT\u2019s twice-monthly e-Communiqu\u00e9. To get your item into this space, email\u00a0PFT Communications Director Matthew Goldstein (mgoldstein@peralta.edu).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>*The Peralta Board of Trustees meets tonight at 7 at 333 E. Eighth St. in the district boardroom. A crowded agenda includes a public hearing, set for 8:15 p.m., on the district\u2019s proposal to lower faculty wages, reduce faculty benefits, and increase faculty workloads in its upcoming negotiations with PFT. District demands include faculty furlough days, permanent benefits cuts, halving department chair release time, a step-and-column freeze, new office hours for counselors and librarians, and more weekly work hours for instructors.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In return for the takeaways, the district\u2014which now grabs a greater share of the general fund than any of the colleges, even as its multiple failures have compromised their accreditation standing\u2014has offered nothing. Faculty are encouraged to attend tonight\u2019s meeting to inform the trustees and Chancellor Wise Allen\u2019s chief negotiator, VC of HR Trudy Largent, that such aggression toward Peralta teachers, counselors, librarians, and nurses won\u2019t be tolerated.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The trustees\u2019 haste to hire a new chancellor\u2014decried by PFT, SEIU, and Tom Henry, head of the Recovery Team\u2014has led the board to make a number of missteps, including awkward revisions of Board Policy 1.20 (up for approval tonight). The agenda further features a request for $25,000 for a marketing consultant, and a raft of change-order adjustments from the Office of General Services, requests that raise questions about how effectively Peralta monitors its construction bids and contracts.\u00a0SEIU will sunshine its own contract proposals as it heads into negotiations with the district.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>*Open enrollment\u2014an annual chance for employees and retirees to enroll in or change medical, dental, and flexible benefits plans, and to add eligible dependents not currently covered\u2014continues through the end of the month. Forms, downloadable at <a href=\"https:\/\/mail.peralta.edu\/owa\/redir.aspx?C=cf6cf0bc01584a9d99674e9ed1ac5caa&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2fperalta.pswbenefits.net%2f\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/peralta.pswbenefits.net\/<\/a>, are due to the Benefits Office by Oct. 31.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In unity,<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Debby Weintraub, President<\/div>\n<div>Peralta Federation of Teachers, AFT Local 1603<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>For more about PFT\u2014contract information, contacts, downloadable forms, updates, etc.\u2014visit\u00a0pft1603.org or write PFT1603info@gmail.com.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Peralta Community, Second Tuesday means it\u2019s time for\u00a0PFT\u2019s twice-monthly e-Communiqu\u00e9. To get your item into this space, email\u00a0PFT Communications Director Matthew Goldstein (mgoldstein@peralta.edu). *The Peralta Board of Trustees meets tonight at 7 at 333 E. Eighth St. in the district boardroom. A crowded agenda includes a public hearing, set for 8:15 p.m., on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-69","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pft1603.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pft1603.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pft1603.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pft1603.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pft1603.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pft1603.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/pft1603.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pft1603.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}