Hi, I'm Troy Moore and I'm running for another term as ECC Federation VP. Thanks for visiting my website. Please scroll down to read my candidate statement or endorse me. Check out the main menu at the top to read about my issues, view my accomplishments, or see my endorsements.
Hi, I’m Troy. I’ve been a FT Chemistry Instructor at ECC since 2016 and VP of the Federation, our faculty union, since 2020. I’m running for another term as VP because I have never been more experienced in, qualified for, and determined to continue the work required to build a strong union that improves and defends the working conditions and compensation for the faculty labor force at ECC.
When I was hired at El Camino College, it was not difficult to see that our contract was far behind other districts in categories ranging from compensation and healthcare to sick leave and PT faculty rights. Accordingly, I became involved in the Federation and have served as a primary author and negotiator during bargaining for our last three full contracts (CBAs 2020-2022, 2022-2025, and 2025-2028) and nearly every MOU during that period. In these negotiations, working with an exceptionally talented and thoughtful team and our members, we’ve been able to achieve competitive salary (minimum of 29.8% increase) and healthcare advances for both PT and FT faculty, non-instructional and instructional alike.
For brief comparison, FT healthcare caps were put into place in 2012. In the next two contracts, the previous Federation teams failed to negotiate any increases to healthcare for FT or PT faculty, resulting in us falling well behind our peers. Specifically, for the entire 8 year period from 2012-2019, the District contributed only $15,936 per year for FT family healthcare plans and a total of $20,000 per year for all PT healthcare benefits. In the 3 contracts (2020-2028) that followed, we’ve successfully bargained consecutive increases so that now the District contributes up to $27,000 per year for FT family healthcare plans, a 70% increase from the previous cap, and $650,000 per year for PT healthcare, an increase of over 30-fold from previous spending. We are back to a comparable space with our peers. I am proud to have been an integral part of this work that has materially and substantially benefited all faculty.
For more information on the various specific items that I have been a part of bargaining at ECC (PT paid PD, PT paid OH, load banking, lab-lecture parity, etc.), a selection of other work that I’ve done with the Federation to defend and protect faculty, or to endorse me, please visit my website here: https://sites.google.com/view/TroyAtECC
Thank you for your time and for considering my candidacy. Thank you for your participation and engagement in the Federation–it really does matter and makes our union stronger! My hope is that the work I have done, the results achieved from that effort, and the way I’ve acted to conduct that work ethically and transparently have earned your confidence and your vote. I’m excited to get back to the work of moving forward together as faculty colleagues.
In Solidarity,
Troy Moore, FT Chemistry Instructor, Federation VP
https://sites.google.com/view/TroyAtECC