WHERE ARE WE NOW?

At yesterday's picnic, several faculty asked for an update on the impasse and grievance issues.

IMPASSE: The hearing impasse was held on March 16th. We expect a ruling from the Special Magistrate between April 22 and April 24. The timeline was that the stenographer had two weeks after the hearing to prepare the transcript, the legal representatives for the College and for PJCFA had two weeks from the time the transcript was prepared to write and submit their legal briefs to the Special Magistrate. Those briefs were submitted this past Monday, April 13th. The Special Magistrate said that he would have his ruling no later than April 24th, but expected to have it ready by April 22nd since he had travel obligations for the 23rd and 24th.

Once the ruling from the Special magistrate is received, each party has the right to appeal the ruling to the local legislative body. In our situation, the local legislative body is the PJC Board of Trustees.

GRIEVANCES: We are in the strikeout part of selecting an arbitrator for the arbitration of the two grievances which were filed. This is the part of the process in which a list of available arbitrators are provided to UFF-PJCFA and to the College and each party alternately eliminates (strikes out) a name on the list until a selection is made. Once the arbitrator is agreed upon, a hearing date will be set.