Another PERB victory for your Pasadena City College Faculty Association! This past Wednesday PERB handed down their decision on the FA’s appeal in our favor, affirming our argument that the CFT’s decertification attempt failed to meet the minimum requirements for holding an election.

This past summer we filed with PERB and argued that the decertification election brought on by CFT was invalid. PERB agreed with our argument and evidence and ruled in favor of our appeal to dismiss the decertification election. Your support has helped to end CFT’s misinformation campaign to undermine our collective work, to silence our voices, and to dismantle our Faculty Association.

A closer look at their mishandling of this process should concern us all! Despite its large budget, professional marketing department, and despite its employees (including some PCC faculty) who are paid to recruit CFT supporters, CFT made costly legal errors in not following proper procedures, and this resulted in their organization spending thousands of dollars – dollars that it collected from the union membership at other campuses!

This is likely how CFT planned to spend your dues if they had been successful in dismantling all that we’ve fought so hard for here at PCC!  They’d likely be taking your union dues to fund poorly-managed campaigns or to make costly legal mistakes – with no real benefit to the hard-working faculty at Pasadena City College. 

Your union’s accomplishments speak for themselves.  We may be a smaller, independent union, but we are mighty! And despite fighting off a CFT-takeover, we haven’t missed a beat in continuing contract negotiations, representing faculty grievances and fighting back on contract violations. Your union has continued to represent and support faculty in conflicts with supervisors, and in putting pressure on those who repeatedly flout the rights of faculty – from the Reemployment Priority Rights of part-time faculty, to class assignment issues, to failure to follow District policies and procedures. We go toe-to-toe on behalf of our faculty and will continue to do so!

In the coming days we will share more information about what comes next, but we all should celebrate this collective victory!This is your union. Stay local. Stay strong. Stay FA!