download DCE Contract Here 2023-2024 … [Read more...]
DCE Bargaining Updates
The DCE Negotiations Team reviewed Management's draft Tentative Agreement, making a language edit, and we crunched the financial numbers, correcting some of Management's numbers. Our edited version is back with Management for review and a signature. Once we have it signed, the BOD will review it to vote on a recommendation. We are looking at a possible ratification vote during the third and fourth weeks of January. MCCC statewide will host Zoom meetings presenting a review of the TA for … [Read more...]
Call to Union Members to Be on the DCE Negotiations Team
The Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) forThe Division of Continuing Education(DCE) is set to expire on August 31, 2020. A new DCE Negotiations Team needs to be constituted this fall to begin work starting in January 2020. The team, made up of the MCCC President and Vice President and a minimum of 5 DCE members, will be negotiating with management on hours, wages, and conditions of employment. COMPENSATION: While the team is active, team members will receive a stipend each semester (fall and … [Read more...]
The DCE Bargaining team has reached tentative agreement for a new contract
DCE Tentative Agreement Reached 7.16.18 (pdf) The DCE Bargaining team has reached tentative agreement for a new contract, with raises of 6 percent and new rights and benefits including sick leave, tuition waiver, and more. DCE Tentative Agreement. The team will be scheduling information meetings for each chapter to explain the tentative agreement and to involve members in the ongoing fight for pay parity and rights for adjuncts. Contract ratification will be scheduled for this fall. … [Read more...]
What MCCC is Fighting For…
After nearly two years of bargaining, Management’s wage offer is 0% the first year, 1% the second! This doesn’t even keep pace with inflation. MCCC represents 4500 adjunct faculty who teach in the Division of Continuing Education (DCE). In Massachusetts community colleges, 70% of the courses are DCE. Adjunct instructors hired to teach courses in DCE do so on a semester-by-semester basis, with little job security. We Want Equal Pay for Equal Work Adjuncts earn less than half … [Read more...]