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Winter 2026: Check Your Paycheck for High-Demand Enhancements!

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

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Contract Negotiations Update 2-16-2026

Edie the Contract Hiker

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

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Tips from public employees on mobilizing members

When the president of Colorado WINS learned that the president of the United States might be targeting Denver next in his anti-immigration campaign of terror, she knew how she’d begin to mobilize. One simple thing Diane Byrne does is deck out her activists in matching T-shirts. Wearing union colors promotes team spirit and builds confidence, she says. The AFT Public Employees program and policy council, meeting in New York City Feb. 5-6, abounded with tips to help locals mobilize. PPC chair Gary Feist, president of North Dakota Public Employees, recommended finding members who can tell a personal story to draw media attention. With more media on the issue, he said, legislators will become more motivated to fix the problem.

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Edie Starts Their Journey! (Contract Negotiations Update 2-9-2026)

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 the Contract Hiker at Campo, Southern Terminus of the Pacific Crest Trail

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

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All the resources you need on immigration and ICE

Teacher holding sign

Federal immigration actions are rapidly expanding, with deadly consequences. The killings of poet Renee Nicole Good and nurse Alex Pretti by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minneapolis have brought intense focus on the use of excessive force. An AFT webinar, co-hosted by AFT President Randi Weingarten and AFT Massachusetts President Jessica Tang on Jan. 28, featured experts on immigration and the law. It highlighted AFT resources and showcased how our locals are showing up to minimize fear and trauma.

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In Solidarity with Minneapolis

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

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