Emerson LA Faculty Reach Contract Agreement.

The new contract brings the salary grid for the LA campus in line with that for part-time faculty members at Emerson College in Boston, who are also represented by an AAUP union. Finally, under the new agreement, starting in fall 2022, faculty members who have taught forty-eight or more credits will contribute 1.5 percent to a pretax retirement plan and the college will make a set contribution of 3 percent of the faculty member's annual teaching pay. When faculty members in the Emerson Los Angeles Part-Time Faculty Union (ELAF), an AAUP collective bargaining chapter, began negotiations for their second contract last June, they set a goal of achieving pay equity with their peers at the Emerson College Boston campus as well as improving health insurance, job security, and retirement benefits for their mostly part-time faculty. [Extracted from the article]

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