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Although there were many issues negotiated, and tentative agreements signed, here are some of the larger issues the negotiating team dealt with along with the results:
Wages will increase 3% in the first year of the contract, 3.25% in the second year, and 3.75% in the third year.
The negotiating team was presented with strong resistance concerning their proposal to reduce the class size of culinary classes. Administration flatly refused to discuss any reduction in culinary classes. The negotiating team was, however, able to have administration agree to a memorandum of agreement in the contract. In this agreement, a task force will be assembled consisting of the union president, two culinary faculty members, and three members of administration to investigate the numerous complaints from the culinary faculty. Based on this committee, recommendations will be made to the president of the school and the union president. If an agreement cannot be obtained, or the president of the school believes the recommendations are not in the school’s interest, the matter will be brought before a federal mediator.
The negotiating team was able to raise the number of hours faculty is compensated for an independent study from two (2) hours to four (4) hours. The negotiating team was also able to secure language that ensures a faculty is not obligated to accept an independent study. Faculty has the right to refuse, if they so wish.
Administration was concerned that faculty was taking undue advantage of the current contract’s inclement weather language which states:
Nevertheless, no faculty member shall be penalized financially or otherwise should inclement weather prevent that person from performing his/her normal duties, provided that person makes a reasonable effort to attend when classes are scheduled and gives reasonable notification of his/her absence.
They initially wanted language that stated that if the school was open and faculty called out, faculty would be charged personal hours. The negotiating team was able to bargain a compromise that consists of:
If the city of Philadelphia calls a state of emergency and the school is open, faculty will not be penalized for not attending.
If there is not a state of emergency and faculty calls out, faculty has the opportunity to make up the class hours within three weeks or they will incur loss of personal hours.
If the inclement weather happens late in the quarter or faculty cannot secure a facility for the make-up class, no penalty will occur.
One of the more challenging proposals the negotiating team had to deal with from administration was faculty AIPH email accounts. Administration insisted all communication, including announcements, from administration to faculty be conducted through the school’s email system. Although the negotiating team realizes this is an issue that has been strongly apposed by faculty, the negotiating team’s argument of the inability to forward email to a personal account was not convincing. The negotiating team was not able to receive support on the email issue from the mediator. However, administration assured the negotiating team that the Pittsburg tech department was close to having the ability to forward email from the AIPH account to a personal account. Although they could not guarantee a specific date, faculty should expect this option to be implemented in approximately four months. When this ability to forward email becomes available, the negotiating team was assured that the AIPH tech department will conduct workshops, supply instructions and support to those faculty who wish to forward email.
Part-time faculty who teach classes of over 40 students will now receive a lump sum of $250. Presently, part-time faculty receives no compensation.
Full-time faculty are no longer obligated to work their office hours in week seven for student registration.
Faculty development funds will be handled differently. Preference will be given to applications that directly have relevance to the faculty area of instruction. These applications will still be submitted on a first come first serve basis. If there are funds left over, the applications for funds that are not directly related to the faculty’s area of instruction will be honored, and if there is more than one, they will be awarded on the first come first serve basis. All applications will be time stamped. The Dean of Academic Affairs will determine the relevance of the applications.
