Adjunct Faculty Association at Nassau Community College

VANGUARD

Charles Loiacono, Editor                                                  Vol. 35, No.3  November  2007

ADMINISTRATION SEEKS CLARIFICATION FROM PERB ON PLACEMENT OF LINCC

Inside This Issue:

The Union's Position
Viewpoint

Notice

Announcements

        Who’s on first? That cannot help but be one’s reaction to this incredible imbroglio once called ESL, then changed to ELI, and now labeled LINCC. Courses once taught as English as a second language under the regular college program were moved out of the college into Continuing Education in violation of federal regulations that prohibit F1 Visa students from taking such courses outside the college in an adult education setting.

            When the AFA challenged the administration, they threw in the towel and admitted that in moving the courses out of the college they had violated the AFA contract. For one semester, ELI courses were taught under AFA jurisdiction and those teaching were paid AFA scale.

            Then, in a new approach to contract violation, the administration changed the name of the program from ELI to LINCC. Pretending that that act changed everything, they declared that LINCC was now a full-time program and thus not under the jurisdiction of the AFA. The AFA, of course, immediately challenged this new violation.

            In a 180% turn, the administration filed papers with PERB seeking clarification or placement of this program within a collective bargaining unit. Their claim: The LINCC program belongs under the jurisdiction of the AFA. Confused? Hold on. It gets better.

            The administration’s response to the grievance was to deny the claim that the program belongs under AFA jurisdiction, but have now taken the position that LINCC does indeed belong in the AFA’s jurisdiction, a part-time union, because “Lecturers in the LINCC program are full-time employees of the College.”

(See “The Union’s Position” on page 2.)