Collective Bargaining

Collective Bargaining Information

This page has the following resources:

  • Information on the current status of collective bargaining between the District and the exclusively represented groups.
  • Information on the collective bargaining process.
  • Finalized contracts and other negotiated items can be found in the following locations:

Status of Classified Negotiations (CSEA)

The District and CSEA are not currently engaged in active negotiations related to collective bargaining articles.

Status of Faculty negotiations (CCFF)

The District and CCFF are currently engaged in negotiations on reopener articles. 

The Board of Trustees authorized District and CCFF to enter negotiations for the following mutually reopened articles:

  • Article 4: Assignment
  • Article 8: Salary
  • Article 13: Part-Time Faculty

Board Agenda Details

The District and CCFF negotiations teams met for an initial discussion regarding negotiations.

The District and CCFF negotiations teams met for negotiation planning.

CCFF shared a PowerPoint slide presentation with the District regarding the basis for their proposals and provided the following proposals to the District:

  • Article 8: Salary
  • Article 13: Temporary Part-Time Faculty Reemployment/Assignment
  • Appendix A: Full-Time Faculty Salary Schedule
  • Appendix B: Part-Time Faculty Salary Schedule
  • Non-Credit Proposals

 

The District provided the following proposal to CCFF:

  • Global Counter Proposal: containing elements of multiple articles within.

CCFF provided the following proposals to the District:

  • Global Counter Proposal:containing elements of multiple articles within.
  • Appendix A: Full-Time Faculty Salary Schedule
  • Appendix B: Part-Time Faculty Salary Schedule

The District and CCFF were scheduled to meet for discussion. The session was canceled due to an emergency. 

The District and CCFF met for discussion. No articles were exchanged.

The District provided the following proposal to CCFF:

  • Global Counter Proposal: containing elements of multiple articles within.

CCFF provided the following proposal to the District:

  • Global Counter Proposal:containing elements of multiple articles within.
 

Key Points to Cerritos Community College District’s Approach to Collective Bargaining

District Commitment

The Cerritos Community College District has obligations to students, the public, employees, and retirees. The District must maintain focus on student success by providing the best possible programs and instruction through the best available faculty and staff.

Other Important Points

In the past, the District could pay for unlimited medical benefits for employees while at the same time providing yearly pay raises. However, times have changed and public pension costs and medical care costs for active and retired employees have increased. The cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) and any new state funding increases the District receives do not cover the District’s annual increases in payroll and benefits costs. 

As a result, at times the District and its employees must choose between pay raises (in addition to annual step and column increases) or higher medical benefit premium maximums paid by the District.

In the recent past, the District’s classified staff and faculty have agreed to capped limits of the amount the District pays for medical benefit premiums. 

A goal of the District is to have equity between all employee groups:
All employees should have access to healthcare options on the same terms and conditions.