Part-time faculty contract

MHCC’s part time faculty association members are now voting on a tentative, four-year contract agreement reached with administration officials.

The proposed agreement is the first breakthrough for three Mt. Hood employee groups who have been bargaining since spring. Contract talks continue for full-time faculty members and for nonteaching classified employees.

Electronic voting by part-time instructors opened on Sept. 18 and will close Oct. 6. Results will be revealed Oct. 8.

Elements of the tentative pact include an expanded process of due rights for dismissal proceedings against an instructor, and creation of a task force to review the evaluation process for part time faculty and for campus tutors.

There is a proposed sick leave bank, which would allow part-time faculty and tutors to donate paid sick leave to whose leave has been exhausted.

There would be new pay for jury duty served and for someone subpoenaed in connection with official MHCC duties.

Part-time teachers who themselves register for fewer than three course credits per term would have their student access fee waived.

Also at stake in the agreement is a potential 4 percent salary increase for three of four part-time faculty and tutoring employee groups.