Well, I did it again. I decided to face the facts. I contacted our Union rep. I actually sent a nice chart to the rep regarding part time health care benefits at a number of community colleges in california. i didn't include ours on the list, because well the rep. should know that already AND, they are pretty close to non existent anyway; 1000.00 a year. I pay 560 a month right now, so that isn't really helping us much. And, in November, when my husband turns 55, we will start paying $670 a month for my coverage. I am 42.
The chart of benefits showed some very generous benefit offerings at the school district to the North of us and the South of us. In some cases, the Districts pay for full coverage of part time employess. In others, they pay 50%. This is a heck of a lot more than we get.
My union rep tells me that more part time employees need to be involved. I wonder though, will it matter. I asked this rep, "will it matter?" My concern, is that the full time tenured faculty, who pay most of the union dues, will not want to lose any of their benefits and thus, they won't want part time faculty to compete in this terrible budgetary- black- hole called california.
But, whatever. I am going to wait until I hear back from our rep. He is a nice man and I don't mean to piss him off with my cynicism. I am just jaded. As are many people these days. But, I really love what I am doing so, this is worth it; RIGHT?
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