The members of Certificated Hourly Instructors (CHI) Faculty Association,
representing part-time faculty at Long Beach City College (LBCC), scored a victory at the bargaining table following their successful lawsuit regarding minimum wage and hour laws.<\/p>\n
This landmark decision established that LBCC must pay part-time faculty for all
hours worked, and that current pay rates do not and have not met the minimum wage threshold for non-exempt employees. With the power of the legal victory, CHI won new salary schedule pay rates equivalent to a full-time parity factor of 51% (up from 42%). Across the salary schedule, this means an average 8.94% salary increase, with the lowest paid part-time faculty seeing a pay increase of
more than 15% retroactive to August 2025.<\/p>\n
This victory is in addition to a large settlement for part-time faculty in back-owed wages that will be dispersed in the coming months. CHI demanded to bargain the impacts and effects of this ruling to ensure the pay rates follow the law.<\/p>\n
\u201cCHI has successfully contractualized the road to pay parity between full-time and part-time faculty at LBCC,\u201d CHI President Crystal Mejia-Huckabee said. \u201cCHI is taking on the fight and making progress towards equal pay for equal work! This is only the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The members of Certificated Hourly Instructors (CHI) Faculty Association,representing part-time faculty at Long Beach City College (LBCC), scored…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-162733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-long-beach","9":"tag-long-beach-headlines","10":"tag-long-beach-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}