Summary of Stricken Language Declared Null and Void
by Board in City Colleges Faculty Contract
Note: This total destruction of our contract resulted from a party-line vote on HB 206. Every Republican in the Illinois Senate and every Republican in the House (except one) voted for HB 206.

Art I. A. Allows Board to eliminate bargaining unit positions by changing job titles. Art II. .

Art. II. K Allows Board to pass rules and policies which conflict with and overrule terms of faculty contract. Art. III. C. Prohibits Board from hiring outside lecturers to teach classes which Union officials are released from teaching.

Art. VI. A.3. Permits Board to assign outside lecturers to work as substitutes for absent teachers.

Art. VI. A.4. Permits Board to hire outside lecturers instead of faculty to teach overtime and summer school classes.

Art. VI. A.7. Deletes language which gives faculty priority over outside lecturers to teach adult education classes.

Art. VI.A.8. Strikes language which gives faculty and training specialists preference before outside lecturers to teach Adult Learning Skills Program classes.

Art. VII.J.7. Eliminates right of retirees to teach overtime classes before outside lecturers. Art.VIII.A. Deletes all class size limits.

Art. VIII. B. Deletes 36-week limit on academic year for counselors and librarians. Also deletes inverse seniority as the basis for variable load teaching assignments.

Art. VIII. C. Deletes right of department chairs and faculty to advise administration on department course schedules each semester.

Art. VIII D.1. Deletes department chairs' and faculty's role in preparing and selecting teacher programs.

Art. VIII. D. 3. Eliminates requirement to schedule faculty member's regular teacher load within six-hour work day and avoid scheduling more than two classes consecutively.

Art. VIII D.4. Deletes limit of five-day work week. Also, eliminates language which permits faculty members to be off-campus on days when they have no scheduled duties.

Art. VIII.F Eliminates all college-wide seniority and retention of employment language. Allows Board to RIF at will. Prohibits Union from negotiating to prevent RIFs. Allows part-time faculty and overtime assignments to have priority over saving jobs of full-time faculty. Eliminates seniority as basis for selecting regular and extra work (overtime and summer school.) Eliminates rotation points as basis of selecting extra work.

Art. VIII.I. Deletes the 36-week academic calendar with 78 instructional days. Board will have sole authority to determine academic calendar, days of instruction and summer session.

Art. VIII.J. Eliminates a fourth year of probation if Board fails to notify non-tenured faculty member of non-renewal by February 15 of third year.

Art. VIII.L. Deletes duties of department chairs to develop a schedule of course offerings, prepare teaching programs of faculty, assign extra work, and post a seniority and rotation list.

Art. VIII N. 8 Eliminates the right of training specialists to be reappointed to a project position when the grant is renewed.

Art. VIII. N. 9 Strikes language which guarantees training specialist automatic reappointment after three years of service.

Art. VIII. N. 11 Deletes requirement that substitute must be provided for absent training specialist.

Art. VIII. N. 12 Cancels training specialist priority in teach ALSP or adult ed. courses.

Art. VIII N. 13. Eliminates requirement that training specialists have minimum of a bachelor's degree.

Art. VIII N. 16. Deletes priority of qualified training specialists over outside applicants for vacant City Colleges positions.

Art. VIII. P. Eliminates duties of health science department program directors to develop course schedules, teaching programs, assign extra work, and post seniority and rotations lists.

Art. IX. B. 1. Deletes right of faculty returning from professional leaves to return to the department which they left.

Art. IX. B. 2. Eliminates the right of a faculty member to return from maternity leave to her former position or to a position at any other college.

Art IX B. 3. Eliminates the right of a faculty member to return from paternity leave to his former position or to a position at any other college.

Art. IX B. 4. Eliminates the right of a faculty member to return from military leave to his former position or to a position at another college.

Appendix B.3.(c) Deletes assignment of TV College students to faculty members based on specified criteria.

Appendix D. 3. A. Eliminates minimum qualifications such as a master's degree in most subject areas, a birth certificate and a health exam for employment in the City Colleges.

Appendix D. 3. B. Eliminates role of department chair in interviewing and recommending candidates for teaching positions. Allows the Board to hire full-time faculty without issuing employment contracts.