Edie’s Diary #1: The Journey Begins!

Edie will be hiking the Pacific Crest Trail while the Edmonds College Federation of Teachers and the management of Edmonds College bargain for a new contract. Will Edie finish their hike before we have a new contract? Follow their journey here to find out!

Edie started her journey at Campo, the southern terminus of the Pacific Crest Trail near the US-Mexico border. They started walking on Wednesday, February 3, the same day that the Faculty Collective Bargaining Team and the Edmonds College management team began negotiations. As you may recall, the union

Since January 20, 2025, Federal immigration officers have been involved in 19 shootings, 5 of them fatal: Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, an unnamed Mexican national, Keith Porter, Jr., Renee Good, and Alex Pretti. ICE and CBP are rogue agencies that are on track to kill more than a hundred people this year in detention centers and on the streets. ICE and CBP continue to operate above legal authority and repeatedly violate the Constitution. We never expected to witness this in the United States. 

Randi Weingarten, President of AFT, shared her statement about these horrific events:

The federal

Has Anyone Seen Dr. Chapman?

The Faculty Collective Bargaining Team submitted our intent to bargain on December 16, 2025. We are now two weeks into the new year and the management team, led by Dr. Kim Chapman, has still not responded with any proposed meeting dates. If anyone sees Dr. Chapman, please let her know that the faculty union is ready and eager to begin bargaining.

On the other hand, we have heard claims from College President Dr. Singh that Gov. Ferguson’s proposed cuts to community and technical colleges will cut $700,000 from Edmonds College. Many faculty view this doom-and-gloom

Let's Go!

Contract negotiations have begun! The Edmonds College Federation of Teachers has filed our demand to bargain, which is the first step in re-negotiating the collective bargaining agreement between our faculty union and the administration of Edmonds College.

This year, the Faculty Collective Bargaining Team will be:

• Shari Arnesen
• Lauriel Elsa-Gordon
• Scott Haddock
• Mary Whitfield
• AFT Representative Kaitlin Gillespie

If you see these faculty in the halls, be sure to tell them they have your support!

What are we fighting for?

Through many listening sessions and discussions with our members, we have

Fall 2025 High-Demand Funds Distributed!

The non-Nursing high-demand salary increases for Fall Quarter have been distributed to the eligible faculty! Those faculty received all of the funds that the state provided the college for this purpose in accordance with the Workforce Education Investment Act of 2019 (WEIA), which totals $680,000 for this year.

Let’s be clear. The college administration did not to give us these salary enhancements. College presidents lobbied state legislators to remove the proviso from the WEIA funds. When that proviso is attached, there is a requirement that the colleges

When did Dr. Singh know about the changes to our high-demand funds?

At the Board of Trustees meeting on November 18, 2025, Chemistry faculty and VP for Dispute Resolution Mary Whitfield addressed the Board, asking important questions about when Dr. Singh knew about the changes to the high-demand funds that sparked the re-negotiation of our high-demand salary increases that started in August, just two months after the original negotiation finished.

In previous academic years, the funds that Edmonds College received from the state to pay our high-demand salary increases were under proviso, which