Overview
- Union and college negotiators met for roughly seven hours Tuesday night and reported significant progress, prompting the cancellation of a planned Wednesday walkout.
- The parties are scheduled to bargain again on Thursday, Nov. 13, at 2 p.m., and union leaders say they hope to finalize a tentative agreement for a faculty ratification vote.
- Faculty priorities include salary increases, retroactive pay, limits on workload, and more input on academic decisions after years without a contract since unionizing in 2022.
- The college says the union’s proposal would cost about $4.2 million annually, could force tuition increases, and would grant managerial control to the union.
- The pause follows a two-day strike last week and earlier talks that sometimes ended within minutes; HACCEA represents about 250 active faculty serving more than 12,000 students across multiple campuses.