Negotiations: Appendix G, Side Letter on Course Scheduling and Faculty Compensation for December Classes

Both AAUP-WSU and the administration add a new Appendix G, Side Letter on Course Scheduling and Faculty Compensation for December Classes, to the CBA. Our Negotiating Team received the proposal below on February 1. All the language is new; however, see our agreement governing compensation for Bargaining Unit Faculty who taught in the December, 2007; it provided teaching rights beyond those specified in the agreement that applied to the December, 2006, intersession. You may also wish to view the entire current CBA.

For more about bargaining now under way toward a successor of our current Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), please see our Negotiations page. There, you will find rosters of our Bargaining Council and Negotiating Team, a table showing the status of each article (those in the current CBA and new ones, too), and also reports about each negotiating session.

Thus far, no negotiations have taken place about the proposals below.

Administration Proposal for new Appendix G, Side Letter on Course Scheduling and Faculty Compensation for December Classes

When the university offers classes during the December intersessions, class scheduling and faculty compensation will be as follows:

Scheduling

The University is not obligated to offer December teaching to any Bargaining Unit Faculty Member, and no Member is obligated to accept a teaching assignment that is offered.
No Bargaining Unit Faculty Member will be required to teach any class during this period as part of his or her workload assignment.
The provisions of CBA Section 7.7.1 (opportunities to teach) shall be expanded so that December teaching assignments are considered part of the following Summer.
The provisions of CBA Section 23.6.6 (limits on cancellation of classes) and 23.6.7 (limits on reduced salary for low enrollment) will apply, as they do in the Summer quarter.

Compensation

Bargaining Unit Faculty on academic year appointments who teach a December course will receive the “summer rate” of 1/36^th of his or her annual base salary for that year per credit hour. Members on fiscal year appointments will be compensated at the overload rate, as they are in the summer.
A December class for which a Bargaining Unit Faculty Member receives the “summer rate” will count toward that individual’s summer teaching opportunities described in CBA Sections 7.7.1 and 23.6 through 23.6.5.

If a Member who would otherwise have been scheduled to teach 8 hours at the 1/36^th rate in Summer 2009 (23.6.4) teaches a 4-hour course in December 2008, her or his compensation will be as follows:

December 2008--	4 hours	1/9^th (4/36^ths) base pay
Summer 2009--	4 hours	1/9^th base pay
	4 hours	overload rate (if a second summer course is taught)

o If a Member who would otherwise have been scheduled to teach 4 hours at the 1/36^th rate in Summer 2009 (23.6.4) teaches a 4-hour course in December 2008, her or his compensation will be as follows:

December 2008--	4 hours	1/9^th base pay
Summer 2009--	4 hours	overload rate (if a summer course is taught)

o If a Member who would otherwise have been scheduled to teach two 4-hour classes @ 1/36^th for 6 hours and the overload rate for 2 hours in Summer 2009 (23.6.5) teaches a 4-hour course in December 2008, her or his compensation will be as follows:

December 2008--	4 hours	1/9^th base pay
Summer 2009--	4 hours	1/18^th (2/36^ths) base pay plus 2 hours overload pay

o The foregoing examples for December 2008 and Summer 2009 will apply also to the December and following Summer of 2009-2010 and 2010-2011.

Summer Offerings

Summer teaching opportunities for those Bargaining Unit Faculty Members who receive the “summer rate” for teaching in December will be reduced by that amount for those individuals in the following Summer. The summer teaching opportunities for other Members will not be reduced, however, as a result of the December classes. If a Member requests and is denied summer teaching opportunities in 2009-2011, the University and the AAUP-WSU will examine the December and Summer offerings in that Member’s department and in relevant General Education classes to determine whether a December class might have reduced that Member’s opportunity to teach. If the AAUP-WSU believe that might have occurred for one or more Members, then a four person committee consisting of two persons named by AAUP-WSU and two persons named by the University will be formed to determine if the Member(s) were denied summer teaching because of December offerings and, if so, an appropriate remedy. If a majority of this committee is not able to reach a common decision, then the matter will be submitted to binding arbitration.

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