Edie’s Diary #2: Hello from Agua Dulce!

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 began their journey on the Pacific Crest Trail at Campo near the US-Mexico border on February 3, 2026. She arrived in Agua Dulce, California on March 9. After a short rest, they are embarking again and will arrive at Sonora Pass on May 4.

As you may recall, the union submitted our intent to bargain

Enrollment at Edmonds College is up! At least, that’s what our college president, Dr. Singh, announced in an email on September 19, 2025.

Classes all over the college have full waitlists and students can’t register for the classes they need because sections are full. One might think that this is the perfect time to open more sections and hire more full-time faculty to teach them. Instead, faculty are being pressured to overload their classes, department heads are begging their deans to open more sections, and the new sections that are reluctantly opened by management are being taught by

Are you a full-time faculty member retiring this year? If so, thanks for your service to our students!

Before you grade that last term paper, you should know that, according to our contract, you are entitled to your full $2000 of professional development funds even if you are retiring halfway through the biennium. Here’s the relevant text:

2.12.3 Full-time Individual Allocation. Full-time academic employees assigned to programs supported through SBCTC funding allocation shall be granted a minimum of $2,000 per employee to be used over a fixed two-year period (to coincide with each fiscal

Winter 2026 High-Demand Funds Incoming!

The non-nursing high-demand salary increases for Winter Quarter will be distributed to eligible faculty on the February 25 paycheck! 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 management of the college did not to give us these salary increases. The purpose of the WEIA funds the college received was to increase salaries of faculty who teach certain high-demand classes. WEIA funds

Edie continues her journey northward towards Agua Dulce just as our Faculty Collective Bargaining Team continues their journey to a new contract. Let’s talk about what happened last Wednesday!

Contract Negotiations Update

The union bargaining team and the management bargaining team met on February 3 and February 11. During that time, the teams exchanged sets of ground rules for the discussion and an attempt was made to agree on a common set of rules for the bargaining sessions. 

A notable inclusion to the management team’s ground rules was that they requested that the union team not speak to