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The Foothill Script

Foothill College's Student News Publication

The Foothill Script

Foothill College's Student News Publication

The Foothill Script

Faculty gather in protest of withheld cost-of-living adjustments at a Foothill-De Anza District meeting in June.

Twenty-one faculty positions to be eliminated, health insurance under threat

A number of part-time faculty positions are slated to be eliminated at the end of this year. Insurance and other benefits hang in the balance.
Bruce Swenson, president of the Board of Trustees, addresses the room.

The Story of Work-to-Contract

Daniel Jacobson, Staff Writer
June 20, 2018

“Fellow faculty, At the negotiations session this afternoon, FA and the District reached a tentative agreement for compensation for 2017-18 and 2018-19.  While all the details are not yet finalized,...

A student stands in the rain in front of a building at Foothill College.

Foothill Students and Faculty Respond to Work-To-Contract Strike

Daniel Jacobson, Staff Writer
June 14, 2018
Two weeks of continued faculty protests for fair pay have left impacts on the Foothill community.
District Withholds Faculty Raise, Prompting Union Action

District Withholds Faculty Raise, Prompting Union Action

Ben Klein, Managing Editor
May 18, 2018

Updated on 5/18/2018 at 9:22 p.m. The Faculty Association will begin work-to-contract on Monday, May 21 in response to the Foothill-De Anza Community College District’s continued refusal to pass on...

District Withholds $1.5 Million From Faculty Salaries

District Withholds $1.5 Million From Faculty Salaries

Ben Klein, Managing Editor
May 13, 2018

The following story was first published in The Script's Spring Quarter print edition. Costs of living in the Bay Area are notoriously high, and rising every year. For employees of publicly funded institutions...

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