SCCC administrators agree to 4-year pact

The Suffolk County Community College's Administrators Guild has agreed to a new four-year pact, which leaves the salary schedule unchanged for three years but provides a 4 percent increase Sept. 1, 2014.

The new contract, which covers 138 administrators -- from assistant department chairs to collegewide associate deans -- leaves intact salary steps for experience averaging 3.5 percent, but only about 50 union members will benefit. The agreement also calls for $25 increases in longevity pay in 2012 and 2013 and a $50 hike in 2014.

Union members ratified the new pact earlier this month, and the college trustees were scheduled to vote on the new agreement Thursday, but the board could not muster a quorum. The board is expected to vote on the package next month, and the county legislature, which must ratify the contract, is expected to vote Aug. 2.

The guild contract follows an earlier, four-year faculty pact, which includes no change in the salary schedule for two years and 2 percent hikes in 2013 and 2014. The faculty received larger raises because the union also made concessions to allow larger class sizes in some courses.