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Adjunct Faculty Association at Nassau Community College |
VANGUARD Charles Loiacono, Editor Vol. 37, No.6 February 2010 ELI REMEDY FOR AGENCY FEE CONFUSES THE ADMINISTRATION They're Still Drinking the Water |
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Inside This Issue:
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Some years back, AFA President Charles Loiacono wrote a column title' :Don't Drink the Water." In it e satirically warned against drinking the water in the Tower because it was inducing a rare form of dyslexia. He was motivated by the inability of the members of the administration to understand the written word. It appears that some of them are still drinking the water. The most recent proof comes in the form of a miscalculation of the agency fee owed to the AFA. The two parts of the agency fee to paid to the AFA were delineated in the ELI award as follows: 1) From the sum due to the ELI instructors, the differential) the College shall deduct the amount the employee should have paid as agency fees. 2) In addition, (emphasis added) the College shall calculate the number of
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instructors who would have been needed to teach ELI if each instructor had been limited to eight contact hours per semester and pay the Association the agency fees it should have received. The problem comes with the misunderstanding of the phrase "in addition." Instead of understanding it to mean "a part added," they think it means "do not include." To be sure that sounds ridiculous, but that's how this form of dyslexia plagues this administration. We will have to return to the arbitration panel for an interpretation. We trust they will be gentle in helping these afflicted folks understand the true meaning of the phrase "in addition." We hesitate to think of what, except dyslexia, could prompt such a reading.
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