Adjunct Faculty Association at Nassau Community College

VANGUARD

Charles Loiacono, Editor                                                  Vol. 36, No.2  October 2008

ELI CASE HEARD BY ARBITRATION PANEL

Inside This Issue:

The Union's Position
Viewpoint

Sexual Harassment

   ELI Case

            On October 2^nd and 3^rd the ELI case, begun in the spring of 2007, was reconvened with Bonnie Weinstock, the new neutral arbitrator, chairing the hearing. Because a decision was never rendered in the original arbitration, the case was heard de novo.

            The AFA presented four witnesses. The testimony of the first three witnesses covered the similarities and differences between the programs, as well as the financial injuries they incurred as a result of ELI courses being removed from the AFA jurisdiction into adult education.

            The fourth AFA witness was AFA Vice President Robert Gaudino. He gave testimony on the surreptitious migration of courses from AFA jurisdiction into adult education. Gaudino also described the history of the struggle to get the administration and the Board of Trustees to honor the contract and the Memorandum of Agreement

negotiated by the Trustees and signed by the college president—an agreement reneged on soon after it was signed.

            The AFA president’s take on the hearings can be found in “The Union’s Position” on page two, and an interesting description of a bizarre case concerning the administration’s position that a teacher can teach, supervise, and otherwise advised students on job sites while residing on the other side of the world. This outrage unfolds in Vice President Gaudino’s “Viewpoint” column on page three.

Board of Trustees

            For many years, the Board of Trustees has had three vacancies. Finally, two of those vacancies have been filled. Anthony Cornachio, a successful attorney and John Durso, president of the Long Island Federation of Labor are the new trustees. Rumors of other trustees leaving have not been confirmed