I got this message just now as I signed a petition:
You have signed 23 petitions on Change.org! We know you care.
Yes, I do. I care enough to make a comment when they say, "Display my name and comment on this petition." I want to offer my thoughts as well as my name. I read the whole thing through before I clicked on the petition to comment and sign. No place to comment.
Here's what I wrote to Allan Fisher:
Hi, Allan~
It says "Display my name and comment on this petition." Is there a place for comment?
I also may not be up-to-date on the administration's plans to move the airport program to the Evans Campus. I thought they had decided against that.
There are plenty of clauses making me want to sign. We've lived through a lot of those "clauses" and gotten a review of them in Free City: The Fight for San Francisco's City College and Education for All.
One concept that I question is stated on page 116 of Free City, when the writers respond to the assertion by the ACCJC and FCMAT that CCSF faced financial disaster because 92 percent of its expenditures went to salaries and benefits.
The authors say "To supporters this showed that the college unions had made CCSF a good place to work."
No, it shows that the college unions had gotten us good salaries. Good salaries don't necessarily create a good place to work.
What other aspects of the workplace does that 8% have to cover?
Dianna Gonzales said at a recent meeting something like, "I can understand your being outraged. I hope you're also outraged that we're in this position." I don't fault them for the problems that they inherited,--who would want their job?--but I've heard testimony that chairs were not informed between September 2020 and February 2021 of the plans to lay off so many of the faculty, so that supports the clause about the administration and Board of Trustees failing to adhere to open government...etc.
Please let me know if, as the document implies, it's possible to make comments.
Tina
