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

What are High Demand funds?

What we call High Demand funds were established in Washington State law by HB 2158 in 2019. This law supplies funds to community and technical colleges “solely for increasing high-demand program faculty salaries, including but not limited to nursing educators, other health-related professions, information technology, computer science, and trades, including welding. Contract negotiations relating to salary increases must consider, and to the extent practicable establish, salaries that are comparable to industry professionals, and no less than the average salary

February 8, 2025

The Washington State Legislature is currently considering Senate Bill 5663 (SB 5663), a proposal aimed at creating a statewide virtual campus for community and technical colleges. While this bill seeks to expand online education, it also presents serious concerns for faculty and union members regarding workload, job security, and the potential redistribution of funding away from local institutions.

The full text of the bill can be found [here]. If passed, it would allow community and technical colleges (CTCs) to market online courses beyond their districts, facilitate cross