tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562669436195506805.post3539789311835416608..comments2023-07-25T08:16:48.860-05:00Comments on City Colleges of Chicago Reinvention: The Truth: CCC Teachers Mowed Down as Pawns in Emanuel’s War Against CTU City Colleges of Chicago Reinvention: The Truthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08762365876915937599noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562669436195506805.post-42664498160225935482012-09-17T21:27:00.769-05:002012-09-17T21:27:00.769-05:00Surprise, surprise, the CCC now wants to force a g...Surprise, surprise, the CCC now wants to force a garbage contract upon the adjunct faculty members that mirrors the lane changes in the full time faculty's lousy contract. The problem that the CCC does not want to acknowledge is that adjuncts earn only a fraction of what their full time counterparts make for performing the same classroom work without most of the benefits. The CCC is trying to ramrod the contract through after only three negotiation sessions since Perry Buckley folded so quickly. The proposed adjunct pay raises are miniscule. It seems obvious that with the CPS strike continuing, Rahm Emanuel desperately wants to publicize another "labor" accord involving educators. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562669436195506805.post-21064774760232717642012-09-08T07:13:12.351-05:002012-09-08T07:13:12.351-05:00Perry Buckley has always been an arrogant snob, a ...Perry Buckley has always been an arrogant snob, a self dealing and devious union official and first rate political ass kisser. I am sure that he celebrated this latest deal by emptying several bottles of wine. Buckley will be living in retirement in the United Kingdom, where he dodged the draft while earning his degrees, when the diminished CCCTU has to negotiate its next contract. He could give a damn about the faculty at the City Colleges. Rahm Emanuel will see to it that Buckley is invited to visit the White House and that is all that matters to the sell out. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562669436195506805.post-62825302706105474482012-09-02T22:45:19.002-05:002012-09-02T22:45:19.002-05:00CCC's (personally speaking, Daley's)admini...CCC's (personally speaking, Daley's)administrators are all kiss ass idiots who continue to make 6 figure salaries and implement arbitrary changes to hurt the quality of our programs. <br /><br />It's not hard to see why so many Deans are leaving for other city colleges. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562669436195506805.post-6958647874342904262012-08-30T09:02:47.812-05:002012-08-30T09:02:47.812-05:00Yes, in fact, I do and I am having no trouble comp...Yes, in fact, I do and I am having no trouble computing what my salary will be for the next 6 years. We are employees and our union contract provides us with job security that few others enjoy today. Those protections remain in tact under the tentative agreement. I'm sorry that you feel that your job is harder. Maybe you could find an easier line of work. As for the rest of us, your little group may not like the agreement but most of my colleagues are willing to live with it and vote yes to keep the jobs that we love under the same working conditions that we now enjoy. By the way, you are anonymous too, aren't you? Do you think that that diminishes your arguments as much as you seem to think that it diminishes mine. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562669436195506805.post-40472705537934702482012-08-30T08:41:20.327-05:002012-08-30T08:41:20.327-05:00Anonymous supporting the outline of an offer write...Anonymous supporting the outline of an offer writes:<br />"We will be protected from re-invention schemes for another six years."<br /><br />You don't even work in CCC do you? We are already have a contract and reinvention schemes have been put in place that make our jobs harder. This offer does not protect us from those reinvention schemes. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562669436195506805.post-54723325501494714582012-08-30T08:34:21.339-05:002012-08-30T08:34:21.339-05:00There is no internal fight. You seem to prefer per...There is no internal fight. You seem to prefer personal attacks to a rational discussion of the issues. I don't think Perry takes orders from anyone and I doubt that the President of the Chicago Federation of Labor is anyone's flunky. This agreement is in the best interests of the membership. Spare us your goofy conspiracy theories and paranoid fantasies. Occupy this!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562669436195506805.post-2878761305307943282012-08-30T08:25:00.480-05:002012-08-30T08:25:00.480-05:00Then please provide us (as this is surely not my p...Then please provide us (as this is surely not my personal vendetta) with the new salary structure that will occur with the ratification of this contract, this agreement clearly overwrites this from the existing contract. All the mailing was was an (ineffective) marketing powerpoint, certainly not a document provided to share real information. <br /><br />Look, its already clear from the majority of fellow faculty members I've spoken to that this will be rejected, but if this is really an honest offer than provide honest answers, not soundbites. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562669436195506805.post-47481291700291807452012-08-30T07:55:17.830-05:002012-08-30T07:55:17.830-05:00What truthful answers do you want? All language in...What truthful answers do you want? All language in the contract remains the same except that in the tentative agreement that was mailed to all members. Read it. Insurance co-pays and deductibles remain at the current contractual rate for another six years! Post tenure language remains the same. We will be protected from re-invention schemes for another six years. If you have some other agenda just state it instead of questioning the motives of our president who has always had our best interests as his number one priority. Maybe you should get out more and check how much other local 1600 members pay for health care. This agreement is the best thing for all of us right now maybe except for some with a personal agenda.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562669436195506805.post-74190066274839908862012-08-30T03:22:56.370-05:002012-08-30T03:22:56.370-05:00Not counting my lane increase (& as a PhD I...Not counting my lane increase (& as a PhD I'll be missing my opportunity to move to lane 4) my yearly average is more like a 3.4% increase annually. This contract is without question a significant loss for me. If you're such fan, why don't you sign your post? Sadly, you are just another symbol of the pathetic attempts to badger those that actually want truthful answers. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562669436195506805.post-67513105034572518222012-08-29T23:59:02.635-05:002012-08-29T23:59:02.635-05:00Those numbers you quote are weak compared to almos...Those numbers you quote are weak compared to almost all other contracts Local 1600 has signed in recent years. Besides that .025 you are talking about is 25% below the rate of inflation. You will be getting poorer. But, Perry won't have to work under this contract. So it was easy for him to make this deal. As your job gets worse he will be off living on his six figure pension, a pension you probably won't see.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562669436195506805.post-48924299881853870752012-08-29T23:39:35.340-05:002012-08-29T23:39:35.340-05:00Perry spends more time talking about what is *not*...Perry spends more time talking about what is *not* in the offer than he does what is actually in the offer. He also treats the District Office threats 11 months before the contract expires as a "last, best and final" offer. You are being cajoled and brow beat. A good contract doesn't require these kinds of hard sell used car salesman tactics. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562669436195506805.post-89710395865312569202012-08-29T23:33:39.688-05:002012-08-29T23:33:39.688-05:00Although you will be locked into a contract, you ...Although you will be locked into a contract, you will not have labor peace. Taking a weak contract after one week of discussion 11 months early only signals weakness to district office. 5 years from now you won't be teaching, just filling out papers and handing out passing grades. You won't have any control over content or quality of your teaching. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562669436195506805.post-82961710037629551242012-08-29T23:27:29.816-05:002012-08-29T23:27:29.816-05:00Perry has succeeded in converting the inevitable f...Perry has succeeded in converting the inevitable fight between District Office and Local 1600 into a internal fight within Local 1600. Perry is taking his orders from Jorge Ramirez, who in turn is Rahm's flunkey. Playing possum with District Office will only embolden them to push harder. This agreement is not "kicking the can down the road" it is surrender. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562669436195506805.post-73418383805799860962012-08-29T21:34:41.502-05:002012-08-29T21:34:41.502-05:00Those steps were meaningless. How many steps have ...Those steps were meaningless. How many steps have you moved in the last five years? Two? Here's some numbers: multiply your current pay by .o44. That's a step in the first year. Add that to your pay and then multiply by .025 that's your raise for the second year repeat 3 more times. If you move a lane you get a real 11% raise unlike the current lose steps and move right stuff that is worth about 4%. What scares me is that you people are college professors. This is a no brainer. VOTE YES! It is not going to get any better than this even with a long strike next year.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562669436195506805.post-81023358743873732122012-08-29T21:23:08.968-05:002012-08-29T21:23:08.968-05:00Giving up steps and an entire lane without clear u...Giving up steps and an entire lane without clear updated salary #'s being provided for their replacement is really treasonous. Of course its a bad contract. Good contracts do not require the urgency, scare tactics, and are opaqueness that this contract presents. Vote no. surely vote no.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562669436195506805.post-30012529310881324202012-08-29T21:12:37.323-05:002012-08-29T21:12:37.323-05:00So what "negotiated right" do you think ...So what "negotiated right" do you think you are giving up? The highest overload in the state? No. The highest summer pay rate in Illinois? No. Job security? No? post tenure evaluation? No. System wide senority? No. This is a decent contract. Vote your own best interest. Short sighted thinking? Labor peace and decent money for 6 years is pretty long sighted if you ask me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562669436195506805.post-92175745114734277852012-08-29T13:47:29.947-05:002012-08-29T13:47:29.947-05:00Getting a 4.4% raise the first year and 2.5% compo...<b><i>Getting a 4.4% raise the first year and 2.5% compounded for each of the next four ...</i></b><br /><br />This is short-sighted thinking. Don't allow yourself to be blinded by the dangling money carrot. There is far more at stake. Times are hard, no doubt; however, once you give up a negotiated right that is now in place it is rarely reinstated without significant concessions. Don't be foolish. Protect what you have right now, when the economy improves so will salary.<br /><b>VOTE NO!!!!</b>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562669436195506805.post-19024979080162519122012-08-29T13:08:39.307-05:002012-08-29T13:08:39.307-05:00Getting a 4.4% raise the first year and 2.5% compo...Getting a 4.4% raise the first year and 2.5% compounded for each of the next four with the opportunity for a bonus in each year doesn't sound like getting "mowed down" to me. It sounds pretty good for these times. If you want to strike join the CTU. I want to teach and have labor peace for the next 6 years. VOTE YES!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562669436195506805.post-2558771632665977342012-08-29T07:23:02.534-05:002012-08-29T07:23:02.534-05:00This post is so far removed from the truth that it...This post is so far removed from the truth that it makes a casual reader wonder just what your agenda is. Is it just the ramblings of a former, discredited hourly employee or an attempt by the lefties to mislead union members and get them to martyr themselves for "the cause"? Give it your best shot. As always sanity will prevail despite your efforts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com