Dr. Singh announced in an email on September 19, 2025, that enrollment at the college was up 8%.

But when the time comes to negotiate a new contract with the faculty union, we expect that Dr. Chapman will show the Faculty Collective Bargaining Team a budget projection that predicts disaster in an attempt to explain why the college cannot possibly spend more money on faculty salaries. What we have noticed is that while faculty salaries stagnate, the salaries of administrators continue to climb. Here is some salary data drawn from the Washington State Fiscal Information website.

The faculty of this college feel very strongly that we are getting more and more administrative tasks thrust upon us. Tasks that used to be handled by staff, like updating classes in Curriculog or verifying that we are being paid the correct amount each pay period, are now being handled by faculty because of staffing cuts. Other tasks, like requesting time off or special assignment pay, now have extra bureaucratic barriers that discourage faculty from completing them. While these administrative tasks pile up on faculty desks, the college is also hiring less full-time tenured faculty to do the

At Edmonds College, associate faculty are paid less than full-time faculty to teach classes. To be specific, Edmonds College associate faculty are paid 65% of a full-time faculty member’s salary to teach the same class. It is commonly argued that full-time faculty have more responsibilities than associate faculty, like office hours, student advising, or committee work that associate faculty are not required to do, so they get paid more for that work. However, it is also well understood that the extra responsibilities of full-time faculty represent 15% of their workload.

This means that

The union would like to report about the events of the Board of Trustees meeting on September 18, 2025. Members of the union attended the meeting to demand that the college stop the withholding of nursing high-demand salary increases by the college administration. One union member, Taylor Smith, spoke during the public comment section on the issue. The president of the college, Dr. Singh, spoke in response to Taylor’s public comment, and our union president, Scott Haddock, gave a response to the president’s response.

During the public comment session at the BOT meeting on Sept 18, 2025, union

Follow the Contract! 

In Summer Quarter 2025, Dr. Kim Chapman and Dr. Amit Singh unilaterally decided to withhold 25% of the salary from our nursing faculty. They also indicated their intent to withhold state-allocated high demand salary enhancements from all eligible faculty in Fall Quarter. These decisions were made without contacting the affected faculty or the union, in violation of the contract and state law. If the Edmonds College administration can do this to our Nursing faculty and the faculty who are granted high demand salary increases by the state, they can do this to any of us. The

Join us at the NO KINGS Rally at UW on June 14!

NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allies. We are taking to the streets to say no thrones, no crowns, no kings!

The Edmonds College Federation of Teachers is proud to be joining the NO KINGS Mass Protest on June 14 at the University of Washington. Our president, Scott Haddock, will be speaking at the rally!

Learn more about the event at the NO KINGS Seattle page. We hope you can join us!

Sign-Making Party

To prepare for the event, the union will