CCCLOC Adjunct Union

11/11/2024

Happy Veteran’s Day to all those who served! You have our gratitude!

09/25/2024

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Grab your grill, time for some economic justice to be served!

09/04/2024

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06/10/2024

Nothing says solidarity like when you go to a family wedding and discover: your husband’s cousin’s daughter is the steward for her union!

03/29/2024

These two gentlemen will make our SURS pension a priority!

Attention Higher Ed members! SURS election voting begins Monday, April 1. Our union recommends IEA member Randall Miller and IFT member Antonio Vasquez. We need strong advocates in these seats to protect the SURS pension and ensure ALL higher ed workers can retire with dignity.

From the SURS website: All eligible SURS members will receive voting instructions and candidate information on or before April 1, 2024. Members will be able to vote online, by phone or by returning a paper ballot in a postage- paid envelope. Voting will be handled directly through YES Elections.

03/13/2024

🚨🚨🚨 For Immediate Release 🚨🚨🚨

Nursing program will provide much needed healthcare to South Side residents

CHICAGO – City Colleges of Chicago and University of Chicago have partnered to bring a nursing program, known as the Malcom X College Learning Center, to the City Colleges’ Kennedy King campus on the South Side of Chicago. The new center is expected to open for the 2026-2027 school year and will be located on Garfield Boulevard between the Green Line tracks and Calumet Avenue.

The following statement is attributable to City Colleges Contingent Labor Organizing Committee (CCCLOC), the union representing adjunct faculty, President Randy Miller:

“The new nursing program is the culmination of years of organizing by South Side community groups and by faculty and staff unions at City Colleges that have long fought to restore programs that had been cut by City Colleges, particularly a nursing program that had provided south side residents with health care that was geographically and financially accessible.

We had planned to bargain this issue while we are negotiating our new contract and are pleased to find, after years of effort, the solution is already on its way.

This is not just about making nursing classes accessible to our diverse student population. It also means more access to healthcare in underserved neighborhoods and more jobs in the medical field for those who live on the South Side. We are glad the administrations are working together with the mayor to make this a reality for our students and our community.”

CCCLOC represents more than 1000 part-time faculty, librarians and vocational lecturers. CCCLOC works with students at all seven City Colleges campuses and four satellite campuses across Chicago.

CCCLOC’s is currently negotiating a new contract with the City Colleges Board of Trustees. The union’s current contract expires on June 30, 2024.

The 135,000 member Illinois Education Association (IEA-NEA) is the state’s largest union. IEA represents PreK-12 teachers outside the city of Chicago and education support staff, higher education faculty, retired education employees and students preparing to become teachers, statewide.

02/21/2024

BREAKING - For Immediate Release:
CITY COLLEGES ADJUNCT FACULTY UNION SET TO BEGIN CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS WITH CHICAGO CITY COLLEGES ON THURSDAY FEBRUARY 22

February 21, 2024

CONTACT:
Randy Miller,(CCCLOC president), 1-412-952-6476, [email protected]
Timijanel Boyd Odom, JD (CCCLOC vice-president) 1-708-855-0868, [email protected]

●The union bargaining unit includes nearly 1,000 fully accredited and certified part-time college instructors and librarians who teach more than half of the for-credit classes at all Chicago City Colleges locations
●The City Colleges Contingent Labor Organizing Committee (CCCLOC) is an affiliate of the Illinois Education Association
●CCCLOC bargaining team consists of active part-time faculty and part-time librarians.
●Members teach the same classes as full-time professors and faculty, yet receive no more than 1/5 in comparable wages, and only minimal benefits.
●Bargaining issues are expected to include wages, working conditions, and other important proposals.
●CCCCLOC members are determined to negotiate in good faith, and seek to have a new deal in place before the expiration of the current contract on June 30, 2024

Chicago City Colleges part-time adjunct instructors and part-time librarians will begin negotiating a new contract with College leadership on Thursday, February 22, at Malcolm X College, located at 1900 West Jackson Street. The start of negotiations caps a four-month long planning process by the union bargaining team, which is made up of active part-time faculty and librarians.

The union is seeking fair and equitable adjustments in wages, working conditions, and other significant improvements. The CCCLOC contract covers all part-time instructors and librarians, who teach the same liberal arts, STEM, and vocational certification classes and programs as full-time professors.

“The folks in our bargaining unit are committed to negotiating a fair contract” said CCCLOC president (and part-time fine arts instructor) Randy Miller. “We love our students, and we love our work and our colleges. When we’re treated fairly by our Colleges, then so are our students.” Union vice-president Timijanel Boyd Odom (part-time business instructor) noted that “So many of us helped think through and develop our proposals. It’s a remarkable, inspiring effort by our entire membership.” The union has proposed a negotiating schedule in which meeting locations will rotate among three of the many City Colleges locations: Malcolm X College, Dawson Technical Institute, and Harold Washington College.

Negotiations begin at a time when enrollments at Chicago City Colleges’ five campuses and other locations have increased to nearly 60,000 students, making it one of the largest, most affordable, most accessible, and most diverse community college systems in the city, and in the greater Chicago region.

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The City Colleges Contingent Labor Organizing Committee (CCCLOC – “Clock” for short) represents nearly 1,000 part-time instructors and part-time librarians at all Chicago City Colleges campuses and extensions. Founded in 1995, it is the largest Illinois Education Association (IEA) union local in the City of Chicago. Clock members instruct the majority of credit hours, and have more face time with students, than any other City Colleges faculty group. Clock members carry the same academic credentials, and vocational certifications, as the College’s full-time faculty, and instruct the same classes that our full-time colleagues teach. Clock ratified its fifth contract in 2021, which expires in June of 2024.

The more than 130,000 IEA union members in Illinois affiliate with the National Education Association (NEA), the largest labor union in the United States with approximately 4 million members.

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02/12/2024

Fair contract! for Adult Educators at Chicago City Colleges - AFSCME Local 3506 working out of contract for 8 months! RALLY - Thurs Feb 15, 8:30am at Wright College, 4300 North Narragansett

02/11/2024

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