John M. Sobrato, Chairperson of the Board of Trustees Santa Clara University 500 El Camino Real Santa Clara, CA 95053 Dear Mr. Sobrato, The West Valley Mission Federation of Teachers (WVMFT) Executive Board wishes to express our support for the non-tenure track faculty at Santa Clara University (SCU) who have been organizing with SEIU in

The Faculty Union Contract states that “Anonymous letters or materials, excluding student survey data, will not be used in the [appraisal] process.” WVMFT has learned that Form F – Reassigned Time Faculty Appraisal Peer Survey does not have a place on the form for the respondents to identify themselves.  Any information provided on Form F that does

The Elections Committee is pleased to announce a call for nominations of candidates for Officers and College Representatives for our upcoming Executive Board Elections in April 2021. The Executive Board positions are: President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer and four Representatives, two from each college, one each for part-time and full-time faculty. Informational for the

We have put together a faculty survey because we would like everyone’s opinions about returning to campus next Fall. Please take a minute to complete this short survey by clicking here. Thank you in advance for your input!

We are reaching out to invite you to the upcoming biennial CFT Convention on March 26-27th. This virtual convention is open to all WVMFT members in good-standing. The convention is the policy making body of the CFT. CFT’s vitality and democracy depends upon the participation of delegates elected by local unions, such as ours. Are you interested

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If you recently received notification from District HR to get a TB test… The TB test should be done once we are back on campus. HR is obligated to notify you when your TB test expires. They give faculty about 60+ days to complete the TB test. Anyone who needs more time just needs to request

WVMFT would like to invite you to sign up for three activities sponsored by WVMFT. All of these union-sponsored activities are loaded into the VRC, but in case there are any problems signing up, we are providing the zoom links below. (Signing up inside the VRC will make it much easier for you to get

Our union will be negotiating new contract language starting in Spring 2021. There will be much more information in the next few months about this process and how we can all work together to produce positive change for faculty. This will be a team effort! The union’s objective now is to clearly identify and prioritize

As you may have heard, over the summer our union set aside $20,000 to create the WVMFT Cares program. This program was originally conceived to help faculty who lost teaching assignments due to Covid-19 related class cancellations. It has since grown to also help faculty who have been temporarily or permanently displaced by the fires we’ve had