by P.D. Lesko

IN NOVEMBER OF 2001, a San Francisco part-time faculty activist, Margaret Quan, sent me an e-mail. She wrote that during the previous month she’d attended a BayFac (college in the California Bay area) union meeting, and “The main topic for discussion was not whether or not, but how full-time faculty can benefit by this augmentation [equity pay]. Parts of the discussion I found distressing...the union in [one of these] districts has decided that they would take the COLA [cost of living adjustment] entirely for full-time faculty, while giving the part-time faculty in their district a raise from the augmentation money. This is illegal.”

It appeared that the $57 million dollars in equity pay set aside by Governor Davis to augment the salaries of the state’s 37,000 part-time faculty was being funneled to the full-time faculty by their unions. We assigned writer Pamela Dillon to sort out the facts, and what she came up with was a piece titled “Parity of Partiality in California? Only Time Will Tell.” The piece was published in the January/February 2002 issue of the Adjunct Advocate.

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