South Forum. Sept 29, 2005 1:05pm - 2:05pm
- These items were discussed:
- Request to Bargain meeting
- The District has made a request to bargain with SJDCTA regarding health care.
- There was discussion on this issue amongst our members. Strategy was discussed. Joe and Jeff will meet this afternoon with the District.
- An SJDCTA meeting will be held on Monday Oct 2, 2006 to discuss the outcome of today's bargaining meeting.
- Cost of health benefits historical overview, by Claudia Quinn
Claudia presented an historic overview.
Main points:
- Health care costs ARE NOT BEING PAID IN ARREARS!
- We have always paid "this year's premiums", and the campus budget for "this year's health care" has been formulated with the actual cost of last year's premiums.
- Faculty have traded away some salary increases in the past for increased health care coverage.
- About 15 years ago, 7% of parts of the campus budget were used for health care costs. This rate was increased to 10% about 10 years ago. SJDCTA and the District have had initial conversations about the need to make changes to our health care package, including the concept of increasing the percentage.
- MORE INFORMATION about this topic in the next newsletter.
- Board of Trustees Candidates endorsement.
- Discussion with the membership, reviewing a recent candidate question/answer forum.
- The SJDCTA Exec Board voted unanimously to endorse Maria Elena Serna, Ted Simas, and Janet Rivera in the upcoming election.
- Ms. Serna and Mr. Simas are running in competitive seats, while Ms. Rivera is running unopposed. Based on this fact, the Exec Board also voted to donate at least $2500 (and no more than $5000) each to Ms. Serna and Mr. Simas (the additional $2500 each may be supplied by the State CTA. This is pending.)
- Laptop PC for SJDCTA use in negotiations, not to exceed $2500 total, was unanimously approved by the Exec Board.
Digi-scribe: Steve Schermerhorn
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