Last Year #7: Contracts and Collective Bargaining

 At last week's Faculty Retreat one of our faculty leaders went over the benefits of our Collective Bargaining Agreement, a text which many people confuse with the "contract."

The news article above from the 9/22/1988 Bend Bulletin was attached to a September 22, 1988, letter.

In the previous "Bendnote" letter of September 13, I found a paragraph with information about a contract as part of my description of the trip around the district.

"At three of our stops we met board members.  Bruce [senior faculty member and tour guide] commented at one stop that the board member would have the opportunity to approve the new people's contract at the next meeting -- which put the new people ahead of the old people.  No one has a contract right now -- it seems as though problems have arisen relating to the current 20 year presidency of F. ending in two years.  Stuff that has been done with handshakes for years has come under observation by the faculty.  They worry that a future president might abuse faculty-administration relations.  So they are hung up on policy decisions, not money.  Or so Bart [Instructional Dean at the time] and Bruce told us today."