Peter Nyguen, Cerritos College Faculty Federation member addressed Senate members Wednesday in hopes of clearing up any misunderstandings of the proposal that was brought forth to the Senate’s meeting on Feb. 8.

Nyguen said that there has been one side that has been heard during the negotiations between the Board and CCFF as far as salary contracts and keeping peer evaluations in place.

The two complains that he has heard during the last few days are the maintaining of non-arbitration and the rehiring of faculty.

In addition, he said, “Never punish the party that has showed up in regards to the continued resolution.”

Furthermore, “The faculty (is) not misleading you (the Senate),” he explained, “Because if there was a decision that was made by the district and then goes to the Board of Trustees, (then) that is illegal.”

Nyguen wanted to emphasis that the CCFF exclusively represents part-time faculty but not all faculty.

The CCFF topic was also on the mind of Party Whip Lexie Guerrero as she said that she had conducted a survey of Cerritos College students about whether or not the Senate should be involved in resolving the contract dispute.

Guerrero added that she had asked 120 students because, “(not all) students know what is going on, and the Senate represents the students here on campus.”

Senate Karla Marquez disagreed.

“The question that you asked the students is considered to be biased,” she said.

Of the 120 students that were polled Guerrero said that she showed the bill to between 10 to 25 students.

Senator Socorro Munoz then questioned why Guerrero showed only a few of those students the bill.

Furthermore, she questioned whether or not she only asked those students “so that way you (Guerrero) could get out of the (students’) face.”

“It was only 10-25 who cared,” Guerrero said.

Senator Ivan Pulido agreed that to ask only 120 students was unfair because “those students can’t make an informal decision on the (question) you (Guerrero) asked.”

After hearing from the senator, Guerrero said that she would take into consideration the suggestions made so that way she would not ask a biased question.

Marquez introduced a revised CCFF resolution to the Senate in which is states:

* The ASCC Senate supports the position of maintaining a binding arbitration, meaning that both the CCFF and the Board of Trustees will bargain over the contract dispute in which it will service the best interest of the students at Cerritos College.

* That the ASCC Senate supports the consideration of re-hiring of faculty.

The resolution was passed by a 13-3 vote but Sergeant of Arms, Oskar Ruiz who has been critical of the continued contracts dispute and opposed the resolution said, “It just seems like a waste of time,” he continued, “because there is no commitment between either side.”