College & District Settle Contract Dispute
A lengthy labor dispute ended in August at Grossmont and Cuyamaca colleges after the faculty union and the district reached a salary agreement.Negotiations had stalled for more than a year. In March, faculty members stopped volunteering for campus activities, including advising student clubs and serving on certain committees. The Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District responded by filing an unfair-labor-practice complaint with the state, which hasn’t been resolved. Both sides declared labor peace after the district’s governing board voted 5-0 to accept a state fact-finder’s settlement recommendation. The United Faculty, which represents more than 1,300 full-time and part-time faculty members, approved the […]