NEGOTIATIONS UPDATE – November 9, 2026

Good morning, Faculty:

On Friday, October 30, 2026, the PCCFA and the District met again to negotiate.

We continued to bargain aggressively on your behalf on two fronts:  Salary and DE Accessibility.  We are also preparing to negotiate Adjunct Faculty workload.

Salary Reopener

The District presented its counterproposal for salary, consisting of a portion of the state-funded COLA, not to exceed 3.3% (a 0.8% increase from its previous proposal). The District offered limited explanation for its position and rejected all terms previously proposed by the PCCFA:

• 6.75%, less the District’s projected 2026-2027 cost of paid pregnancy disability leave (reduction not to exceed 1%) for all faculty;
• An additional 3% parity boost for part-time faculty;
• Elimination of Step 1 of each of the part-time salary schedules;
• Longevity increases of 2.5% for full- and part-time faculty at 10, 15, 20, 25, and 30 years of service;
• Increasing the stipend rate to $54/hour, reflecting an increase comparable to that of the state-funded COLA and super-COLA.

The PCCFA has completed an initial review of the District’s 2026-27 adopted budget and identified several areas in which the District’s budget assumptions and projections warrant further discussion. At the next round of negotiations, both parties are scheduled to present their respective fiscal analyses and the assumptions underlying their proposals. The PCCFA looks forward to a substantive discussion of the District’s budget and the resources available to support faculty compensation.

DE Accessibility 

The PCCCA countered with a proposal that again, pushes back on the April 2027 deadline, protects faculty from unwanted surveillance during the proposed online course review process, and strengthens your intellectual property protections.  We also pushed for fair compensation for the work of remediating online courses to meet the new DE Accessibility guidelines.

Our proposal includes the following proposed terms:

• Limiting DE Accessibility reviews to Canvas sandboxes that house a specific “model” course designated for the purposes of the review.  
• Restricting access to private faculty communications, student communications, students grades, Canvas gradebooks, and that which is not necessary to conduct DE Accessibility reviews.  
• Restricting the District’s ability to conduct random reviews, audits, and other automated scans.
• Rejecting the District’s attempt to add an approval process for determining whether a course can be taught online beyond the existing contractual DE certification and recertification requirements.  may be approved for online delivery.
• Rejecting the District’s proposal that they be able to modify our courses and thereby infringe upon our academic freedom.  
• Compensate faculty for the work of remediating their online courses and materials. 

Adjunct Faculty Workload

The PCCFA is also preparing to negotiate updated contract language that more precisely defines the scope of part-time workloads and the relationship between compensation and teaching assignments. We have carefully reviewed the contract and consulted extensively with our legal counsel to create a proposal that clearly delineates what the part-time faculty teaching workload is and how work outside the scope of specific teaching assignments is compensated.    

We are scheduled to meet with the District again to negotiate on November 16, 2026 and will continue to keep you posted on the status of Negotiations.

Thank you,

The PCCFA Negotiations Team