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...]
Welcome to the MCCC, your union
The Massachusetts Community College Council and its campus chapters allow faculty and staff to have a powerful and meaningful voice in the workplace, and we encourage you to belong. The MCCC bargains the contracts that set the wages, benefits and working conditions for all of the faculty and staff in the bargaining unit. MCCC membership is the power behind our ability to create the working and learning conditions that you want in our community colleges. The MCCC and its parent union the … [Read more...]
June 2018 Newsletter
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Notice Regarding Agency Fees
A Supreme Court decision is expected shortly in the Janus case, in which an Illinois government employee has challenged the constitutionality of unions collecting agency fees. While a previous Supreme Court decision was clear that agency fee collections are lawful, we have been advised by competent legal counsel to exercise an abundance of caution in this matter. Therefore, we, and many other unions will stop collecting agency fees on June 1, 2018 and will continue to abstain from the … [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...]