AFT Seattle 1789 eBoard Meeting Minutes
APPROVED 2023–2025

Folder: eBoard Minutes

Link to this document: http://tiny.cc/AFTSeattle-eboard-minutes 

11/18/2025

31 Members Present

Eboard Members Present: Adrianna Martinez, Alex Korsunsky, Anna Shaver, Brendan Manley, Chad Miles, Charlotte Singh, Cristóbal Borges, Dave Ellenwood, Dorian Alexander, dr beloved hunt, Fatih Thompson, Greta Treistman, Hannah Houser, Ila De Leon, Jay Mclean-Riggs, Jean Fallow, Jessica Logan, Julian Barr, Justina Rompogren, Katy Dichter, Michelle Morado, Olivia Atkinson, Peter Sakura, Rebecca Yedlin, Rob Earle, Shireen Deboo, Steph Hankinson, Tania Hino

Intro [15 mins]

2 - 2:15

“Chatvocate:” Rob

Timekeeper: Julian

Notetaker: Michelle/Dorian

Review, amend, approve Minutes for Nov. 4, 2025
Julian motion to approve, Dorian second
14y,

Review, amend, approve agenda

13y 1a,  

Updates [30 mins]

2:15 - 2:45

• PT President, Jean Fallow

• Info brochure for PT faculty forthcoming! What do you need to know / wish you’d known sooner.
• Continued work on challenges to unemployment.
• RFI: SCD relationship with UI Strategies (third party agency handling unemployment for district)

• Grievance Chair, Julian Barr

• Three grievances against district –  HD parity pay, South: spring and fall; unfair labor practice re: never agreed to pay for Spring, for fall, did agree to pay in writing, but never did it;  expected update by next week.
• Pay issues: promised retroactive increase in stipends would occur by 11/10, proceeded to grievance;
• SCIE faculty not being paid accurately, may go to grievance
• Investigating FD funds inconsistency; may go to grievance; will update next meeting
• If you hear the narrative “because we don’t have a pdf of the ratified contract, we do not need to follow it” (obvi not true) – if you hear this, please notify grievance chair
• Still working on getting a pdf of the contract; still being faced w/ delays

• Negotiations, Cristobal/Dave

• REDACTED

• AFTWA HR Updates, Dr. Beloved

• Shared letter drafted in collaboration with AFTWA and AFT HRC to send to Sen. Cantwell regarding funds and support for undocumented comrades; letter be sent to board following the meeting
• Human Rights Day, Dec. 10th:  – commemorating rest as a human right

• Honoring the rest/days off hard won by unions.
• Can our community give suggestions / insights for how they create rest for their own respective departments and divisions.

• Connect with sister/sibling unions to offer rest (e.g. folks attempting to unionize at starbucks: how can we support them)

• Divest meeting (Katy or Mei or Greta 5 min)

• Context: called on WA State Investment Board to divest from Israel, some of us have retirement funds managed by WA State Investment Board; so many of these companies are doing multiple things that we stand against; other resolutions have passed via other unions,
• Greta, Mei and Katy will have a meeting about how to get organized around issues: housing costs; genocide;
• Copy of resolution will be sent to board;
• Dr Beloved: statewide campaign to for faculty to have input on who is selected for BOT;

• https://investigate.afsc.org/ 

Old Business [15 mins]

2:45 - 2:55

Interest in Seattle Promise Levy meeting with Melody McMillan?

• McMillan desires meeting with faculty to discuss Promise. If interested in being part of that conversation, Helena will loop in to scheduling.

• Dr. Jay: This does align with ongoing discussion from faculty concerned about how Promise students are fairing and how Promise works; Dr. Jay will send a note to see if faculty are interested; issues include how does Promise work, and how isn’t that Promise students get dropped for non-payment; likely scheduled for Winter.

SNAP intervention? (Katy )

• Eboard Budget for emergeny fund for students (no questions asked fund at $599 per person);

• Helena: not for students though; relief fund for students not yet discussed; at the budget committee meeting Helena did discuss how to have relief fund; how to earmark it; how to access; Helena will share email thread which contains information on other boards’ procedures for E-Board for review;
• Julian: South has an emergency fund; needs to be member approved so must be brought to next membership meeting; Rebecca: as treasurer requests logistical details; Adrianna: in favor of conversation, in terms of seeing where our values align; membership (co-chairs) (loveseat) plan to have conversation with membership about values; Dorian: mutuality was noted as shared value – are we trying to create connections with students as fellow laborers, facilitate conversations with students who want to be involved;

• Membership meeting discussion forthcoming.
• Cristobal: purposeful discussion and clear process needed.

New Business [30mins]

+Add any new proposals/items for discussion here, along with your name and how much time you need, please!

2:55-3:25

• Proposal to stipend notetakers at Stewards Meeting for Central   (5 minutes max) - Jay

• Dr. Jay proposal: $100 stipend for stewards who take notes at meetings at central, until such time as we have a secretary.

• Chad seconded

• Alex: curious about need for paid notetaker.
• Dr. Jay: declined to fold the secretary job into our job, actively looking for a secretary; need for note taker at $300/q; needs eboard vote, because i f the position of secretary were filled their stipend would be paid out of e-board; this is only pending finding a secretary; gesture of appreciation
• Helena: what would happen if secretary joins later? Would they get pro-rated stipend?
• Steph: why 100?; Chad: years ago we did not have a secretary, and that was the practice.
• Rob: reasonable rate as someone who’s taken notes for the e-board; stipends encourage involvement.
• Alex: it does not seem to be unreasonable extra labor to ask steward to take notes; not easily explained to membership; Chad: it is in the job description of secretary, not the the description of the steward’s council membership; savings of $1700 per quarter; the presidents of the stewards council has assumed much of the secretarial work;

• Vote: 10y; 2n, 3a

• Reach out to outside facilitator for winter retreat (ila, 3 min)

• Follow up to retreat discussion in the development of conflict resolution strategies/

• Ila proposal: Ila will work with Mei to connect with an outside facilitator rooted in BIPOIC and non hierarchical community organizing to help us in dealing with conflict together (upcoming e-board meeting)

• Chad: do we need to think about cost now? Ila: we will present information and cost

• Dave seconds.

• 16, 1a

• Dec 16 meeting (Helena, 5mins)

• Motion to not have a meeting on 12/16

• Ila super seconds
• Vote: 16, 1n

• Discussion: Rebecca – bylaws, budget draft vote needed; Dr Jay: end of the quarter is Dec 17; helena: budget committee is developing the budget for Dec 9;
  Jay: clarification, what is the phrasing of the bylaws for the budget approval;
• Rebecca: budget will not be ready prior to the 5th; e-board needs at least one week to review;
• Ila: budget focused meeting before the break needs ot be done
• Rob Earle: if voted for, we can vote to reconsider; one item agenda could be considered

• Adrianna: new proposal.
• In lieu of full e-board meeting, hold 30 minute meeting in lieu of 2 hour meeting, to exclusively discuss the budget

• Jay: second
• Tania: we need to have quorum? Helena, yes, our quorum is 8;
• Rebecca: need to arrive prepared having reviewed documents circulated ahead of time.

• 15y

Reminders [5 mins]

3:25 - 3:30

• Rapid Response Know Your Rights Training Tomorrow 3-5pm
  North LB1105; BE Library Room A; South Cascade 117 and Library and HEC and Wood Tech
• Organizing 4 Power Trainings begin tonight at 5pm

11/4/2025

32 Members Present

Eboard Members Present: Adrianna Martinez, Alex Korsunsky, Anna Shaver, Brendan Manley, Chad Miles, Charlotte Singh, Cristóbal Borges, Dave Ellenwood, Dorian Alexander, Dr Beloved Hunt, Fatih Thompson, Hannah Houser, Helena Ribeiro, Ila De Leon, Jay McLean-Riggs, Jean Fallow, Jessica Logan, Julian Barr, Justina Rompogren, Katy Dichter, Mei Eyre, Michelle Morado, Peter Sakura, Rebecca Yedlin, Rob Earle, Shireen Deboo, Steph Hankinson

 Intro (15 mins)

2:00-2:15

Chatwatcher/timekeeper: dr beloved

Review, amend, approve agenda

    Charlotte moves to approve agenda; Dr. Beloved seconded

    Dr. Beloved moves to add eboard meeting times to agenda; Charlotte accepts friendly amendment

    Motion passes 12 y, 0n, 0a

Review, amend, approve minutes from Oct 21

     Julian moves to approve notes, Shireen seconded

    Motion passes 16y, 0n, 0a

Professional Issues Chair (10 mins)

2:15-2:25

Jill lane introduces herself

Jay suggests waiting on nominations to include a few more folks interested in position

• Discussion (1 hour) followed (questions/concerns about process, urgency, respecting/honoring folks looking to get involved)

Cristóbal moves to appoint Jill as Professional Issues Chair, no second

Anna moves to delay the vote on an appointment of professional issues Chair, Jay seconded

     Friendly amendment to clarify that the vote should take place next meeting, accepted

     Motion fails 6y, 8n, 4a

Cristóbal re moves to appoint Jill as Professional Issues Chair, Shireen seconds

     Motion passes 12y, 0n, 4a

Updates (30mins)

2:25-2:55

Jacqui provided brief update on upcoming AFT leader meeting in Portland Jan. 9-10; Bob supported info sharing

President for Part-Time Faculty (Jean)

Grievance Updates (Julian)

Stewards Councils Updates

• South
• North
• Central

Shared Governance across the colleges(college council bylaws) (Adrianna)

**Political Action/Human& Civil Rights (Katy)

• Organizing for Power (O4P) POWER UP! Training 

Organizing Committee

• Let’s get the first meeting on the books!

Human Rights AFTWA updates

• Human Rights Day December 10th
• Immigration Letter FYI
• BOT strategizing committee
• WEIA letter

Discussions

3-3:30pm

**Agreement Management Meetings

• Team and Schedule (according to CBA, we can have up to 5 folks on team. Thinking 2 District Chairs (eg District President + Grievance or Negotiations chair) + one Stewards Council Co-chair from each college.
• Will meet quarterly, and schedule Fall, Winter, Spring at once with Eric Vanhooser. Helena will reach out to team to schedule.

• Julian proposes to follow Helena’s suggestion above for composition; 2 district chairs, plus one representative from each stewards council as selected by each council. (Alex seconds).

• Katy asks for clarification on positions: Julian: stewards council can determine these roles for themselves.
• helena : one rep from stewards council as proposed by the steward’s council, two district positions
• 17 y 0 n 0 a

**Furloughs Discussion (Dave, Cristobal, Julian) (20 mins)

• Cristóbal - toward the end of last week received a response from SCD on the high demand parity pay issue

• Audits are updated at BOT, and that’s where we should get those responses
• Re: high demand parity pay: SCD holds that it is a separate process than furlough (they see it as connected to a grievance that set off the audit).

• Given the processes in place, we will not know this quarter whether we will even have movement on these issues.
  (discussion follows regarding the response; needs Eboard guidance on how to move forward with AFT alternate plan for budget reductions)

• Dave Proposes: in their response to admin on furlough and budget reduction conversations that we float District admin (esp. VCs) cuts as the primary method of reducing the budget and that we are willing to have those conversations.

• Jean seconded

• 18y 0n 0a
  
  (discussion follows - redacted)

What can AFT1789 do for our students (and workers?) not getting SNAP? (Katy) 5mins

Concerns re: cuts to AHSS at Central (Michelle)

Retreat Plan (Helena)

• Helena

**Retreat budget proposal (Rebecca) 5 mins

• Rebecca moves to fund food, up to $600 to cover snacks in the morning, arrepas lunch buffet in the afternoon and drinks. Julian seconds.

Eboard meeting times (dr beloved)

People Wranglin (15 mins)

3:20 - 3:45pm

• Seattle Promise conversation with Melody McMillan (see addendum below)
• **Retreat Headcount (Rebecca)

• 22

• 18y 1n a (move this to above)

• O4P Power Up (PolAct/H&Civil Rights): “A four-part course in the core fundamentals of organizing” (Political Action and Human & Civil Rights): groups of 10+ can attend this free training, 18 & 20 November and 2 & 4 December 2025, 5pm. Registration deadline is Nov 10!  (PA and H&CR, 5 or 10 min). Please Add names below!

• Invite folks from Steward’s Council! Email will go out to gmail accounts, Steward’s Council presidents, please pass along!

• Labor and Education Group, Saturday at 10: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScMjoa0vccyjNrXd-MlZDpREbw1Yv5P4Z_9fM4Hy58xkjMzMQ/viewform?pli=1 

Guest: Jacqui Cain, AFT-WA President

3:45

• Regional AFT Conference in Portland Jan 9-10

Name

Name

Name

10/21/2025

27 Members Present

eBoard Members Present: Adrianna Martinez, Alex Korsunsky, Anna Shaver, Brendan Manley, Chad Miles, Charlotte Singh, Cristóbal Borges, Dave Ellenwood, Dorian Alexander, Dr Beloved Hunt, Fatih Thompson, Helena Ribeiro, Ila De Leon, Jay McLean-Riggs, Jean Fallow, Jessica Logan, Julian Barr, Justina Rompogren, Michelle Morado, Olivia Atkinson, Peter Sakura, Rebecca Yedlin, Rob Earle, Steph Hankinson

Intro (15 mins)

2 - 2:15

Review, amend, approve agenda

• Justina: motion to approve agenda. Dorian: second.
  12y 0n 0a

Review, amend, approve notes for publication

(NSC appointment?)

• Adrianna: motion to appoint Fatih Thompson as co-PT Rep for North Seattle College / Dorian seconded
  15y 0n 0a

Updates and Reportbacks (45 mins)

2:15 - 3pm

Grievance update (Grievance Team, 10 mins)

• Response due re: Parity Pay next week

• South: culinary clean up
• South: PHL no classes; removal =/= dismissal
• District Wide: the district does not provide the data needed, failure to provide data needed to function is unfair labor practice per state.
• Due date for summer retro pay is Nov 10; moonlight, high demand will also appear on Nov 10 check.
• Lots of pay issues; grievance is keeping track of them; payroll is being cooperative in making things right
• On radar at North: one division is telling their faculty coordinators to cut hours bc their budget did not account for increased stipend rate         

Organizing Committee update (??)

• Will have meeting set up by end of week (coordinating with Political Action/Human Rights Committee)

Stewards Councils Updates (15 mins)

• North (5mins):

• Fatih Thompson appointment

• Justina: proposal: motion to appoint Fatih as Co-Part Time Rep for North Seattle College. Brendan seconded
  15y 0 0

• Union Lounge?: partnered with WFSE to get the lounge (it’s in the WFSE contract) to share with other unions; once North secures a lounge, invite each other to others’ lounges.  
• Pay Question: Should payroll apply the 1% raise after adding back our wage reopener or before?

• Does 1% get added after wage reopener or before?

• Local fund salary increase secured during wage reopener (2023) exact total has to be taken out of salary prior to application of state COLA.

• The problem is that they are not compounding local fund raises; asking for clarity. (Cristobal communicated directly with Petrine Sims)  

• As discussed/negotiated it was clear that these should not be handled in this way (and should be compounding local funds).

• Justina: meeting with HR, VPI and president; can be addressed at upcoming meeting.

• Do FTF get contracts every year/quarter?

• No, FTF do not get CTC link contracts for regular class load (Julian);

• South (5 mins):

• Met with president and HR today; HR may have solution to problem of not knowing how many are employed;
• Understaffed facilities; further cut facilities during spring layoffs; South is working on temporary solution while figuring out long term; expanding 8 PT contracts that have yet to be filled & hired;
• Revival of college council: now named strategic advisory committee; questions about make up of committee & leadership of committee; there is a college council at North; Central has had a college council and shared governance committee; it is now called an advisory committee, which does not mean shared; bylaws indicate it should be shared, proposed shift by VPI to make it advisory

• Central (5 mins):  Union lounge, October Senate stewards meeting  BOT

• First Faculty Senate Meeting held at Wood Tech; Faculty Senate Meetings will be held at each co-location to continue to foster inclusivity, and to lift up our partner unions as the full 1789; November: HEC.
• Union lounge: a place for friends raising, solidarity raising, and building with partner unions: Thursdays at 2-4p; earlier times proposed
• BOT: we can be part of the decision making process for nominating BOT members; nominated 2 people for vacancies, waiting to hear back.

• Question asked: should we consider a letter of discontent to the Chancellor for how the CFO was appointed (bypassing shared governance process)

Budget Update/budget committee (Rebecca, 5 mins)

• Budget report/update

• We need to form a budget committee ASAP: based on bylaws will be Rebecca, Helena and two members, one eBoard member would be great + rank and file for other; funds impacted by summer (fewer folks on contract) membership income is main source of income; still awaiting dues list for summer, and thus unable to pay per capita for summer (what we pay to AFT WA, AFT National, King County Labor Council); YTD: budgeted $450: just under that; slightly exceeded expenses

• Increase in co-roles; S25 73k including eboard and negotiations; F25 80k for eboard alone; will need to be discussed to ensure fiscal responsibility

• Steph: contact stipend members to assess time spent; clearer picture of the labor; to right size the stipends according to what we are getting in.

• Email board by 12/9 for review as draft budget must be voted on 12/16
• Retreat a good time to assess; prepare beforehand.

• Proposal: Steph, motion: before Nov 15 each committee will have a general draft of duties and associated labor to share at retreat and discuss. Rebecca: second.

• Discussion: each committee or each eBoard position?

• Steph: Amend: each committee is responsible for outlining eBoard position within that group.

• Proposal: Steph, Motion every eBoard member who is compensated will have a draft of their position duties and approximate labor time associated with that role.

• Discussion: a lot of roles are new, may need to be framed as what to expect; many are not actively on committees, but are trying to make committees happen, which is a reenvisioning of eBoard; there may be re-imagining of roles and collaborations; data gathering and collection to balance labor with compensation to see if money and time can be invested in different ways; example: when at WoodTech, we are learning how to knit ourselves together as a community; we don’t always know what we need to do until we’re there. Discuss shared values and how we spend money; it might be helpful if we know what kind of reduction we are looking at that might be sustainable;

• Proposal: stipend for r-a-f folks (one?)  for (up to 5 hours) for work on budget committee

• Rebecca motion: stipend ^ / Jean seconded, up to $400 to be on budget committee:

• 13y 0n 1a

• For reference: Bylaws say the committee should constitute treasurer, district president (ex officio), and two other committee members, one of whom should not be on the eboard (rank and file member). AFT president can appoint members, but we want to make an open call regardless. In the case of multiple expressions of interest, will submit email vote for eboard so the committee can get started.

• Officer for budget committee (needs proposal and vote): dr beloved

Negotiations Update:

• Furlough Negosh Team Members

• Haven't heard back on questions raised; no need for team filled.  

Political Action/Human Rights (Katy/Mei/Greta) 5 mins)

• looking for folks on each college who can be there for watch party and get people talking together and make a plan; connect with WFSE and Pro Staff;
• Collectiva legal: will come and do a know your rights rapid response training; will be online (watch parties, woo!)

• (Canvassing nov 1, 10-1pm (capitol hill),  civil disobedience training? sun nov 2nd,  etc)
• Rapid Response/Know Your Rights training with Colectiva Legal save the date November 19

• Zoom but with coordinating in-person watch parties on each campus, connecting with WFSE and AFT Pro-Staff
• Time to actually work on and practice Rapid Response plan for college/departments

Action Items (30 mins)

3pm - 3:30

• Not discussed due to time: {{Retreat planning (Helena and Rebecca)

• set for Nov 15th, prob around 10-4

• will include lunch and snacks.

• 2 volunteers to handle location and logistics (including food);

• Names:

• 2-3 folks to handle “content”/agenda for the day (expected time commitment: 1 or 2 hour-long work-meetings)

• Email Address Policy (Anna)

• Policy around sending from personal accounts
• Default decision: each member would have individual account, shared addresses with shared position; current policy: send from officer address e.g. anna.shaver@aftseattle.org should actually go to membership@aftseattle.org;  process can be clunky; what are our retention policies? (always archived: president, part time president, grievance chairs).

• Are there every circumstances in which its ok to use personal emails?
• Current policy & instructions

• Not discussed due to time: Agreement Management meetings – to begin in Winter? (CBA 3.3)

• Now that we have a contract we should have these meetings; projected committee formation winter 2026.

• District-wide New Hire Orientation attendance rotation and sign-up. Have started a document here with information on when and where these happen. Would like to have folks signed up ahead of time, through the end of  winter quarter at least. If you’d like to attend these sessions, please sign up in the document! Short link: http://tiny.cc/NewHireOrientation.
• AFTWA Civil Disobedience Training (Bob) Sun Nov 2

• This will be led by a long-time activist named Wes Howard-Brook.  He’s a lawyer, theology faculty emeritus at Seattle U, published scholar, and has been involved with dozens of these sorts of actions for decades.

AFT Washington Non-Violent Civil Disobedience Training

10:00 AM – 2:30 PM, Sunday, November 2

AFT Washington Main Conference Room:  600 Oakesdale Avenue SW, Renton, WA 98057

-AFT-WA Human Rights report out on Frank Chopp Commemoration, local 1789 work on sponsored AFT-WA Resolutions, Human Rights Day Commemoration

- Dr. Beloved: we want to see what the Frank Chopp’s community would like for this commemoration and honor of him.

- Resolution 1 that AFT Will work to build an anti-racist, anti-imperailist, anti-colonial, anti-ablist, multigenerational, lgbqtia alliances.

{concern about no shared governance in cfo appointment}

AFT Leader Meeting - Portland: January 9, 2026 – January 10, 2026 https://web.cvent.com/event/8de44605-f499-4178-b6ee-771fe18cbf34/summary   

Worksite Representative Training: October 28, 2025
https://leadernet.aft.org/webform/worksite-rep-training-102825 

Contract Enforcement & Grievance: Oct 29, 2025
https://leadernet.aft.org/webform/contract-enf-grievance-102925 
Contact bdowning@aftwa.org 

10/7/2025

34 Members Present

eBoard Members Present: Adrianna Martinez, Alex Korsunsky, Anna Shaver, Brendan Manley, Chad Miles, Cristóbal Borges, Dave Ellenwood, Dorian Alexander, dr beloved hunt, Hannah Houser, Helena Ribeiro, Ila De Leon, Jay Mclean-Riggs, Jean Fallow, Jessica Logan, Julian Barr, Justina Rompogren, Michelle Morado, Olivia Atkinson, Peter Sakura, Rebecca Yedlin, Rob Earle, Shireen Deboo, Steph Hankinson

Welcomes! 15 mins

2 - 2:15.

Welcome new officers

• Adrianna, Dorian, Michelle, Mei, Katy, Hannah, Jessica, Olivia (Please send Rebecca your personal email addresses so your Quickbook Accounts can be created and you can get paid!)

North Stewards Council Appointments (Jessica/Justina) (10 mins)

• PT Rep(s) Fatih, Peter
• Grievance Co-chair Tania

Proposal: Justina moved to appoint Peter Sakura as PT rep for North

Motion passes 14 y 0n 0a

Proposal: Justina moved to appoint Fatih Thompson as PT rep for north

Proposal: Tabled until next meeting

Motion passed 10 y, 2n, 1a

Proposal: moved to appoint Tania as Grievance Co-Chair for North

Motion passed 12y, 0n, 0a

Discussion re: Justina serving in co-roles as grievance co-chair and stewards’ council co-chair

Proposal: Steph moved to keep Justina as grievance co-chair @ North

Jessica Logan will vote as north president while Justina Rompogren will vote as north grievance co-chair

Motion passed 16y, 0n, 0a

Agenda/Minutes (5mins)

2:15 - 2:20

Review, amend, approve agenda

Amend Aug email votes to notes from Aug 19

Review, amend, approve minutes from Aug 19

Shireen moved to approve the agenda

Motion passed 16y, 0n, 0a

Fall AFT 1789 Retreat (5mins) Rebecca/Helena

2:20-2:25

Need volunteers to plan agenda/sessions

2 days – Day 1: getting to know each other, visions, values

        Day 2: workplanning based on Day 1

• “Workshop” time for teams/committees/co-chairs

Planning volunteers so far: anna, justina, julian

Logistics volunteers: (food, location, etc) Rebecca, Ila

Day 1 this quarter and Day 2 next quarter?

Updates (45 mins?)

2:25 - 3:15pm

Central (Jay, dr beloved)

South (alex, ila, charlotte)

• meeting with South United Student Association (USA)

North (jessica and justina)

• Some questions – what to do when a student records your class (as per Brian Palmer’s email)

• More clarity needed, usage is very clear, instructors can refuse, but students retain right to appeal to dean or ACO.

• Follow up question re: content rendered accessible via AI tools.

• Steward council/eboard flow chart?

President for Part-Time (Jean)
-committee to address refusals of unemployment applications over breaks, investigative process (agencies, polls, other unions, inaccurate justifications for denial)

Grievance (julian)

• hd update

• High demand parity pay: still awaiting data, district believes they are in overpayment; complaint filed with PERC (public employees employment relations commission);
• Nov. 10:  hd parity paychecks & summer retro
• HR still working on summer stipend pay (summer retro)

• Any pay issues, contact grievance → emergency check route.

Negotiations (dave/cristóbal)

• Cba

• Ratified, 3 year contract, woo, production of new cba in process (hard copy will be pink, improvements to PDF)

• Furloughs/budget reductions

• Conversation changing a lot, faculty has leverage; seeking direction from e-board

• Do we pursue the 4 day furlough discussion or do we demand more info on high demand?
• suggestion: get information on where the district is in the process of RIFs? (section management)

Proposal (Steph Hankinson): Propose to wait for additional information before [continuing the discussion on]  moving to furloughs. Second (Jean).

16y, 0n, 1a

Guidance: Stop using the phrase /reframe “overpayment” - if a miscalculation appeared in the contract, but faculty were paid according to their contract, it’s not an overpayment as faculty were paid according to their contract. Stay engaged and proactive in conversations with our siblings in partner unions.

AFTWA Human Rights Committee (dr beloved)

aftseattle.org/Teams → Google migration updates (Shireen) (10 minutes)

3:15-3:25

• Schedule tutorial/support sessions?  (anna/julian/shireen?)

• Helena will cancel Teams acct 10/31 (account auto-renews on nov 4)

• Invitation to set up AFT email account. Contacts: South: Julian. North: Shireen. Central: Anna

• Work under shared drives 
• Log into AFT Seattle Gmail address for all union business.

• However, individual aft emails are not points of contact: emails should go to office /position. Set up email to send email from OFFICE.

Proposals

• Rapid response know-your-rights training for faculty (Mei); free, but need 35 people to attend
• Donation request to Superfamilia (Mei)

• Motion to make donation to Superfamilia (offers rent support for individuals who are at high risk/targeted)

Proposal to donate $500 to Superfamilia
17y, 0n, 0a

Updates

2:15 - 2:45

Grievance 

Julian Barr gave an update for Grievance Committee

• South: TS issues continue, meeting with HR
• Central: Scheduling issue is being worked on, more info expected at the next meeting; a student conduct issue is also ongoing
• North: Questions about telehealth services

Parity pay for South Prof Tech. Working on requesting information. This is what makes pay for prof tech faculty competitive compared to working in their industries. Theory is that specifically South has calculated this pay incorrectly, working on confirming.

RIF process: met with Scott Rixon & interim HR director Xaila Lewis. Talking about 8.1 Reasons for Dismissal I & J and 8.5 Dismissal Proceedings from our CBA (contract). There is a typo in 8.5. Clarified that District has to follow Article 8’s dismissal proceedings before going to RIF.

Treasurer

Rebecca Yedlin gave a budget update

• Finally got a good 10-day list for winter quarter; we overpaid our per-caps due to bad info from the district. Reached out to AFTWA and AFT National to fix this. Should be seeing a $40,000 refund.
• We were using Fall faculty numbers during Winter, usually Fall has the highest number of faculty of all the quarter.
• Really important that we get accurate 10-day lists from District.
• Discussion about availability of budget info to members, tension between wanting to be careful about posting sensitive info publicly and making it transparent and available to members
• Reminder that we are a private, non-profit organization, not a public one and people are looking for ways to attack unions & non-profits.

Communications

Shireen Deboo gave an update

• Planting the seed of moving our accounts off Microsoft
• Microsoft added to BDS list for complicity in genocide
• Value of consolidating materials into one platform, Google Drive is where many of our documents live
• We are not married to Microsoft, it’s just powering our email addresses

Elections

Greta Treistman gave an update

• Candidate forum is tomorrow Wednesday June 3 from 3-4pm, a place for members to ask candidates questions
• Ballots go out June 9, voting ends June 13
• Candidates can send out statements with Action Network email. Shireen can help facilitate.
• There is also an option to send mailers–contact Greta very soon if you want to do this

AFT Bob

• No Kings Day will be at Cal Anderson 6/14, AFTWA will have a presence
• Summer Institute for Women 

• June 22-26 at Simon Fraser University in Canada
• There is a scholarship that can pay for all of the cost

• WSLC Convention July 22-24 (Vancouver, WA)

• Karen Strickland (outgoing AFTWA President) will be there, incoming AFTWA president Jacqui will be there too
• Opportunity to push about Divest Resolution

• RIFs
• AFTWA Convention update

• Divest Resolution brought by AFT1789 passed
• New AFTWA president elected
• Dr Beloved elected as Human & Civil Rights Chair for AFTWA

• Question about furloughs, can we join forces with other locals?
• Community colleges reduction is 0.5% cut, 4 year colleges took a bigger hit at 1.5% – budgetwise not as bad as was predicted. The OFM overpayment will not be clawed back. It will still feel like a cut because last year there was more money that is not there this year.

Election Endorsement

Chad Miles gave an update

• AFTWA approached us about making local election endorsements
• AFT1789 put together a committee to solicit candidate statements
• The committee has a slate of recommendations that will next go to AFTWA eBoard for approval
• Do we need to have an approval process within AFT1789 too?
• Working on putting together materials for our members to explain why we’ve endorsed these candidates.

Professional Issues

Valerie Hunt (dr beloved)it’s so m gave an update

• Thinking about data security, how is District communicating sensitive information to members and non-member faculty
• HIPAA violations?
• ctcLink is bad – leave accrual, absence requests information is faulty and maybe violating laws

Membership

Anna Shaver gave an update (link)

• We have not been able to get accurate counts of membership or bargaining unit maybe ever
• We finally did!
• We have a schedule for a day every quarter the info is supposed to be sent. Doesn’t happen but we have the day
• This info is another data security thing–we want members to see this info but not the general public
• Anna shared a table with all the faculty employed at Seattle Colleges for Spring Quarter! Yay! (link)
• The dream is to track this info quarter to quarter
• District is using our count now

Negotiations Update (15 mins)

3 - 3:15

Dave Ellenwood gave an update

• Session last Friday
• Talked about 6.1.8 instructional duties, 40 hour weeks as a time designation is a danger
• There is a session this Friday, meeting earlier than usual 11:00-1:45 at North Library Seminar Room, next to the help desk on the main level.
• Will bring counter for 6.1.8 obligations
• Calendar arguments have been good
• Will talk about pro-rata and SCIE with help from Brendan Manley
• Mediation in process–filled out the form, they haven’t sent it, they are slow
• Discussion of calendar issues – making distinction between first day/last day instruction, first day/last day finals, first day/last day of quarter etc.
• Extension of calendar has contributed to work creep
• Getting information from them about furloughs and how they will benefit the college

Budget Cuts/Furloughs/RIFs Response Team + structure (20 mins)

3:15 - 3:25

Charlotte Brun gave an update:

• Charlotte is working on picking a time to meet, knowing it will be impossible to get everyone before the end of the quarter. Will send a notice today.
• Request to clarify the structure of the working group:

• What are the teams from Colleges?
• What will it look like at the bargaining table?

• Bargaining structure has not been decided yet, will be separate from contract negotiations
• Discussion about TS/BTS and waitlists and impact on students who are vulnerable
• Worth calling out publicly that these things negatively impact students and retention
• They haven’t considered attrition

Letter to Randi Weingarten

3:25 - 3:40

Following up on Randi Weingarten’s article in AAUP, Katy and Greta wrote a letter asking her to rethink her use of the ADL as a source on antisemitism and to do more to stand up for the rights of Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim students and faculty. Can we send as Local 1789? (To Randi Weingarten and Todd Wolfson–AAUP President)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XQ7BXDQEAN8GsbmCo2b93xbJo_BtLNa_CTcA9HvotC4/edit?usp=sharing

Greta will send out to eBoard via email and follow up with an email motion.

Code of Conduct Review and Revision (Jay)

3:40 - 4pm

Jay McLean-Riggs introduced the idea of aligning our code of conduct with values/centering experiences of members

• A committee will be formed

• Anna, Dr Beloved, Dave, Jessica, ila?

Additional Items

There will be an eBoard email motion vote form to approve the local election endorsements and the letter to Randi

Suggested endorsements:

Girmay Zahilay - County Executive

Ryan McIrvin - City Council Seat 5

Katie Wilson - Mayor

Rory O’Sullivan - City Attorney

Jamie Fackler - City Council Seat 2

Dionne Foster - City Council Seat 9

Natalie Simmons

• This week will be quarterly PT meeting

• Friday June 6 10:00-11:00 AM on Zoom

• Natalie is giving a workshop about unemployment – districtwide

• Friday June 6 11:00-12:30 AM on Zoom

6/3/2025

27 Members Present

eBoard Members Present: Alex Korsunsky, Anna Shaver, Brendan Manley, Chad Miles, Charlotte Brun, Cristóbal Borges, Dave Ellenwood, Dr Beloved Hunt, Greta Treistman, Helena Ribeiro, Ila De Leon, Jay Mclean-Riggs, Jessica Logan, Julian Barr, Justina Rompogren, Lyle Crews, Natalie Simmons, Rebecca Yedlin, Rob Earle, Shireen Deboo, Steph Hankinson

Intro

2 - 2:15

Check in

Review and approve agenda

Julian Barr moved to approve the agenda

13 yes, 0 no, 0 abstain

Agenda approved

Review and approve minutes from last week

Charlotte Brun moved to approve last meeting’s minutes

11 yes, 0 no, 2 abstain

Updates

2:15 - 2:45

Grievance 

Julian Barr gave an update for Grievance Committee

• South: TS issues continue, meeting with HR
• Central: Scheduling issue is being worked on, more info expected at the next meeting; a student conduct issue is also ongoing
• North: Questions about telehealth services

Parity pay for South Prof Tech. Working on requesting information. This is what makes pay for prof tech faculty competitive compared to working in their industries. Theory is that specifically South has calculated this pay incorrectly, working on confirming.

RIF process: met with Scott Rixon & interim HR director Xaila Lewis. Talking about 8.1 Reasons for Dismissal I & J and 8.5 Dismissal Proceedings from our CBA (contract). There is a typo in 8.5. Clarified that District has to follow Article 8’s dismissal proceedings before going to RIF.

Treasurer

Rebecca Yedlin gave a budget update

• Finally got a good 10-day list for winter quarter; we overpaid our per-caps due to bad info from the district. Reached out to AFTWA and AFT National to fix this. Should be seeing a $40,000 refund.
• We were using Fall faculty numbers during Winter, usually Fall has the highest number of faculty of all the quarter.
• Really important that we get accurate 10-day lists from District.
• Discussion about availability of budget info to members, tension between wanting to be careful about posting sensitive info publicly and making it transparent and available to members
• Reminder that we are a private, non-profit organization, not a public one and people are looking for ways to attack unions & non-profits.

Communications

Shireen Deboo gave an update

• Planting the seed of moving our accounts off Microsoft
• Microsoft added to BDS list for complicity in genocide
• Value of consolidating materials into one platform, Google Drive is where many of our documents live
• We are not married to Microsoft, it’s just powering our email addresses

Elections

Greta Treistman gave an update

• Candidate forum is tomorrow Wednesday June 3 from 3-4pm, a place for members to ask candidates questions
• Ballots go out June 9, voting ends June 13
• Candidates can send out statements with Action Network email. Shireen can help facilitate.
• There is also an option to send mailers–contact Greta very soon if you want to do this

AFT Bob

• No Kings Day will be at Cal Anderson 6/14, AFTWA will have a presence
• Summer Institute for Women 

• June 22-26 at Simon Fraser University in Canada
• There is a scholarship that can pay for all of the cost

• WSLC Convention July 22-24 (Vancouver, WA)

• Karen Strickland (outgoing AFTWA President) will be there, incoming AFTWA president Jacqui will be there too
• Opportunity to push about Divest Resolution

• RIFs
• AFTWA Convention update

• Divest Resolution brought by AFT1789 passed
• New AFTWA president elected
• Dr Beloved elected as Human & Civil Rights Chair for AFTWA

• Question about furloughs, can we join forces with other locals?
• Community colleges reduction is 0.5% cut, 4 year colleges took a bigger hit at 1.5% – budgetwise not as bad as was predicted. The OFM overpayment will not be clawed back. It will still feel like a cut because last year there was more money that is not there this year.

Election Endorsement

Chad Miles gave an update

• AFTWA approached us about making local election endorsements
• AFT1789 put together a committee to solicit candidate statements
• The committee has a slate of recommendations that will next go to AFTWA eBoard for approval
• Do we need to have an approval process within AFT1789 too?
• Working on putting together materials for our members to explain why we’ve endorsed these candidates.

Professional Issues

Valerie Hunt (dr beloved)it’s so m gave an update

• Thinking about data security, how is District communicating sensitive information to members and non-member faculty
• HIPAA violations?
• ctcLink is bad – leave accrual, absence requests information is faulty and maybe violating laws

Membership

Anna Shaver gave an update (link)

• We have not been able to get accurate counts of membership or bargaining unit maybe ever
• We finally did!
• We have a schedule for a day every quarter the info is supposed to be sent. Doesn’t happen but we have the day
• This info is another data security thing–we want members to see this info but not the general public
• Anna shared a table with all the faculty employed at Seattle Colleges for Spring Quarter! Yay! (link)
• The dream is to track this info quarter to quarter
• District is using our count now

Negotiations Update (15 mins)

3 - 3:15

Dave Ellenwood gave an update

• Session last Friday
• Talked about 6.1.8 instructional duties, 40 hour weeks as a time designation is a danger
• There is a session this Friday, meeting earlier than usual 11:00-1:45 at North Library Seminar Room, next to the help desk on the main level.
• Will bring counter for 6.1.8 obligations
• Calendar arguments have been good
• Will talk about pro-rata and SCIE with help from Brendan Manley
• Mediation in process–filled out the form, they haven’t sent it, they are slow
• Discussion of calendar issues – making distinction between first day/last day instruction, first day/last day finals, first day/last day of quarter etc.
• Extension of calendar has contributed to work creep
• Getting information from them about furloughs and how they will benefit the college

Budget Cuts/Furloughs/RIFs Response Team + structure (20 mins)

3:15 - 3:25

Charlotte Brun gave an update:

• Charlotte is working on picking a time to meet, knowing it will be impossible to get everyone before the end of the quarter. Will send a notice today.
• Request to clarify the structure of the working group:

• What are the teams from Colleges?
• What will it look like at the bargaining table?

• Bargaining structure has not been decided yet, will be separate from contract negotiations
• Discussion about TS/BTS and waitlists and impact on students who are vulnerable
• Worth calling out publicly that these things negatively impact students and retention
• They haven’t considered attrition

Letter to Randi Weingarten

3:25 - 3:40

Following up on Randi Weingarten’s article in AAUP, Katy and Greta wrote a letter asking her to rethink her use of the ADL as a source on antisemitism and to do more to stand up for the rights of Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim students and faculty. Can we send as Local 1789? (To Randi Weingarten and Todd Wolfson–AAUP President)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XQ7BXDQEAN8GsbmCo2b93xbJo_BtLNa_CTcA9HvotC4/edit?usp=sharing

Greta will send out to eBoard via email and follow up with an email motion.

Code of Conduct Review and Revision (Jay)

3:40 - 4pm

Jay McLean-Riggs introduced the idea of aligning our code of conduct with values/centering experiences of members

• A committee will be formed

• Anna, Dr Beloved, Dave, Jessica, ila?

Additional Items

There will be an eBoard email motion vote form to approve the local election endorsements and the letter to Randi

Suggested endorsements:

Girmay Zahilay - County Executive

Ryan McIrvin - City Council Seat 5

Katie Wilson - Mayor

Rory O’Sullivan - City Attorney

Jamie Fackler - City Council Seat 2

Dionne Foster - City Council Seat 9

Natalie Simmons

• This week will be quarterly PT meeting

• Friday June 6 10:00-11:00 AM on Zoom

• Natalie is giving a workshop about unemployment – districtwide

• Friday June 6 11:00-12:30 AM on Zoom

5/20/2025

21 Members Present

eBoard Members Present: Alex Korsunsky, Anna Shaver, Brendan Manley, Chad Miles, Charlotte Brun, Cristóbal Borges, Dave Ellenwood, Helena Ribeiro, Ila De Leon, Jay Mclean-Riggs, Julian Barr, Justina Rompogren, Lyle Crews, Rebecca Yedlin, Rob Earle, Shireen Deboo, Steph Hankinson

Intro

2 - 2:15

Check in

Agenda: motion to approve agenda was seconded and passed  

Minutes: motion to approve minutes was seconded and passed

Updates

2:15 - 2:30

Grievance: 

• working with transitional studies faculty to submit a letter of no confidence about their dean to the South President. HR has opened an investigation on some portions of the content of that letter.  
• Awaiting feedback on questions about sabbaticals
• Got the 10 day list (of active faculty employees), working on a new process with HR to provide the list.
• Conversations have started with the grievance committee about the RIF process.
• Parity pay issues are ongoing and hoping for an update at the next meeting.

AFT WA convention recap.

• Ensure Washington State Workers’ Pension Funds Align with international Law resolution passed
• Percap increase incoming

Elections update (Greta in absentia?)

• Greta sent out the list of nominees
• Working on scheduling a forum
• Candidate statements are due on Friday

Proposal: honorarium for Rev. Sekou

Motion to give an honorarium of $200 to Rev. Sekou who spoke at the walkout by Cristobal. Seconded by Steph. Motion Passes with 7 yes, 1 no, 1 abstain

(if time: upcoming unemployment workshops via AFTWA) (june and july)

AFTWA is going to do unemployment workshops in June 24th at 3pm, and July 18th at 1:30pm.

Natalie Simmons will also be holding “applying for unemployment” workshops for PT faculty on June 6th or 13th, and might do a workshop on denial appeals.

Negotiations Update

2:30 - 2:50

• Request for mediation (discussion)
• Furloughs are separate from negotiations because they are a short term compromise on the CBA which governs our working conditions over the next three years.
• Need to write down our specific boundaries around transparency in mediation as mediation would mean closing negotiations after we have fought so hard for open.
• PERC mediation page
• Steph made a motion that the negotiations team signals openness to mediation (regarding salary/compensation only) given a conditional agreement with SCD beforehand regarding transparency/observers that we bring to the mediator. All other areas of contract negotiation we would like to keep in our agreed upon process. Charlotte seconds. 9 yes, 2 no

Budget Cuts/Furloughs/RIFs Response Team + structure  (Helena)

2:50 - 3:20pm

Proposed structure:

• 1 team made up of presidents of council, grievance team, negotiation representation for each campus.
• Constant participation with sister unions.
• Discord communication
• Folders for each team to compile documents
• Teams charged with organizing and compiling information.

Julian Barr made a motion to create an ad hoc committee made up of stewards council presidents, grievance teams, negotiations chairs and anyone else interested to gather, share information, and organize against furloughs, cuts and RIFs. We will include Pro Staff and WFSE representation. They will create pods to meet with administration at each college that includes presidents negotiations and grievance.

Seconded by Steph Hankinson.

10 yes, 1 no

Motion passed

meeting frequency?

--meeting friday with pro-staff, wfse (tentative: 9am -11am)

Stewards council presidents should contact stewards for interest in joining working group

Set up first meeting with relevant eboard members and interested stewards.

Proposal: review and update Code of Conduct for Local (Jay)

postponed

Postponed to next time.

By-laws review

• Set up language and meeting date (2 weeks notice; can be a special meeting called for the occasion
• review standing committees in by-laws
• Revised language needs to be shared with membership by May 30 if there is to be a vote at June 13 Membership meeting (steward council name-change and organizing committee structure)

5/6/2025

22 Members Present

eBoard Members Present: Alex Korsunsky, Anna Shaver, Brendan Manley, Chad Miles, Charlotte Brun, Cristóbal Borges, Dave Ellenwood, Dr Beloved Hunt, Greta Treistman, Helena Ribeiro, Julian Barr, Justina Rompogren, Lyle Crews, Natalie Simmons, Rebecca Yedlin, Rob Earle, Shireen Deboo, Steph Hankinson

Intro

2-2:15

Review, amend, approve agenda

Shireen Deboo moves to approve the agenda, Brendan Manley seconds

8 yes, 0 no, 1 abstain

Motion passes

Review, amend, approve minutes from April 29

Shireen Deboo moves to approve last meeting’s minutes, Lyle Crews seconds

9 yes, 0 no, 1 abstain

Motion passes

We need at least two officers to attend budget town hall (and take notes and screenshots. Dave and Cristobal will take turns?)

Updates

2:15- 2:35

Grievance

• Julian Barr gave an update
• See last week’s minutes (not many updates, things are ongoing)
• Early investigation of cuts to parity pay in aviation department at South (nobody got their parity pay from the first paycheck). HR namechecked attorney general
• Adds up to a cut of about $2000 per quarter (this amount is what makes teaching pay competitive with industry pay)
• No reports of walk-out retaliation yet. Should check in with other unions about their experience.

Treasurer - Quick Budget Update (5 min)

• Rebecca Yedlin gave an update
• Bookkeeper finished reconciliations
• Budget info is all in Quickbooks now
• Looks like we will go over on conference budget (for AFTWA conference)
• No course releases this quarter
• Largest chunk of our money is going to stipends
• Some of our 2025 expenses are actually for things from 2024 or previous years
• We have significant reserves in savings and investments
• No significant deficit month over month
• Per capita increases as dues increase because we pay per member (we are probably overpaying our per cap but this is because we aren’t getting accurate info on 10-day list from SCD–Anna Shaver is working on trying to remedy this). There is an AFTWA proposal to change per cap to a progressive system which might mean that we end up paying less.
• Negotiations adds to expenses–we’d like to try and get an estimate of how much negotiations cost. Rebecca will ask our bookkeeper to pull out a number for that. Looking at a 3 year budget to see consistency between years with negotiations and years without.
• We might be spending less on labor than we used to?
• Summer budget: people can opt out of serving over summer. Only two meetings. You can choose to be stipend just for those meetings, or choose to be on-call.
• Appreciation  to Rebecca and Sharra (our bookkeeper) for having more info about our budget now!
• Bookkeeper recommended we use a CPA, which we plan to do to help with budgeting moving forward

Elections

• Greta Treistman gave an update (not much to update)
• Greta will share out info about who has been nominated & accepted with members and at member meeting on Friday
• Friday May 9 at 11:59pm is the deadline for nominations

Comms:

• Shireen Deboo gave an update (not much to update)
• member mtg this friday?  Agenda? Outreach?
• Props to Shireen for Comms work last week!

Endorsement Proposal Working Group

• Alex Korsunsky gave an update on process for interviewing candidates to recommend AFTWA endorses
• Accelerated timeline as recs have to be in by AFTWA convention on May 17
• Feels weird for working group to unilaterally decide–send to eboard over email? Bring to member meeting? Difficult to solicit input because of timeline
• Shireen will shout out the working group in comms blurb to make sure members know they can participate if they want
• Contact Alex Korsunsky or Chad Miles if you have questions or concerns
• Recommend an eboard email vote to approve the working group recs
• Alex will make a shoutout at the member meeting inviting people to join process if they want
• Endorsement working group will review candidate questionnaires, propose an endorsement, send to eboard via email for a vote which will confirm. Comms will let members know what’s happening and that they may participate in the working group if they want to.
• Working group can send out candidate statements if anyone is interested.

Negotiations

• Cristóbal Borges gave a written update which Helena Ribeiro delivered:
• No negotiations this week; next session May 16 at North
• On Friday, May 2, SCD presented a counter on Tenure process, that after caucusing, we countered on the spot and it is back with them. Just one small change and it looks like we may be able to tentative agreement (TA) soon.

Walkout Reportback/CAT Team

2:45 - 3pm

What worked? What can we do better?

• Helena Ribeiro and Rob Earle gave a reportback
• Couple hundred people!
• CAT will meet Thursday to do a debrief
• Maritime “splash-out” in their fishing vessel outfits in the water

• Students were really into it
• Very high turnout, Maritime academy percentage-wise

• Would have been good to have trash bags/clean-up crew next time

Discussion of District’s RIF/Furlough Proposal and Legal Meeting Prep

3:00 - 4pm

• Meeting with AFT lawyer Dmitri today at 4
• Went over SCD letters about RIFs (reductions in force–layoffs) and furloughs
• Letter threatens RIFs if we don’t accept furloughs
• RIFs happen by program
• Furloughs have to be bargained based on our CBA, RIFs do not
• False dichotomy!
• Need to coordinate with Pro-Staff and WFSE
• Pro-staff has annual contracts, so they don’t have RIFs. They have already gotten some “non-renewals” which is equivalent to RIFs (from AFT Bob)
• Threshold for WFSE furloughs was set at “living wage” of $67,000
• They will RIF regardless of whether we accept furloughs so we might as well keep rejecting furloughs
• It’s hard to find language to actually pin down no job losses–SCD has many ways to decrease workforce (not filling vacant positions, etc)
• Because of unfilled vacancies, faculty are already doing more service work. Furloughs would be fewer days to do work
• Concern about solidarity with other unions if AFT1789 doesn’t take furloughs and they do
• Possibility of offering a pay cut in the first year for something else later
• Which cuts are going to happen anyway? Which cuts are most impacting the actual work of the college of teaching students?
• We can add this to bargaining table. Can use to build pressure.
• Taking into consideration the relationship between state and SCD budgets.
• PTF take the hits. Either loss of jobs and/or denial of UI claims.
• We can ask for them to stop UI denials (specifically using legal representation to fight claims) at bargaining table
• Thinking about preserving programs, preserving integrity of programs.

4/29/2025

22 Members Present

eBoard Members Present: Alex Korsunsky, Anna Shaver, Brendan Manley, Chad Miles, Charlotte Brun, Cristóbal Borges, Dave Ellenwood, Dr Beloved Hunt, Greta Treistman, Helena Ribeiro, Jay Mclean-Riggs, Lyle Crews, Natalie Simmons, Rob Earle, Shireen Deboo, Steph Hankinson

Intro

2:00-2:15

Edit, amend, approve agenda

Shireen Deboo moves to approve, Greta Treistman seconds

7 yes, 0 no, 0 abstain

Approved

Edit, amend, approve minutes from 4/15

Shireen Deboo moves to approve, Charlotte Brun seconds

6 yes, 0 no, 3 abstain

Approved

Updates

2:15-2:30

Grievance–Steph Hankinson gave an update:

• Accommodations not being followed
• Pay issues
• Transitional studies issues at South
• Grievance committee at Central is thinking about/getting ahead of reduction in force
• Masking policies
• At North (& everywhere) student conduct/support for faculty/policies conversations ongoing, may become a larger conversation including eBoard over the summer. Helpful to log informal issues with Grievance so they can track trends.

Comms/Elections–Shireen Deboo gave an update

• Nominations are open. Nominate yourselves and others, think about inviting people in. Email Greta Treistman secretary@aftseattle.org to make a nomination. Deadline is Friday, May 9.

Minutes question–Shireen Deboo

• Jessica Logan is now Secretary for North Steward Council
• Tension between amount of detail in minutes & how accessible/public they are to our members. Ongoing conversation.
• Should Steward Council minutes be shared on AFT website? What style of minutes (simple or detailed)?
• Steward Councils have autonomy and can decide how to do their own minutes and how to publish them

24/25 Emeritus Nominations: Received and Submitted–Helena Ribeiro gave an update:

• Names for this year: Betty Williams, Lauren Yasuda, and Frank Post (posthumous)
• Helena is waiting on SCD to let her know if these names will be read at May meeting or June meeting

WFSE Update

2:30-2:45

Dawnelle Wilkie, WFSE shop steward, came to present an update:

• WFSE folks can use one of their “days of conscience”
• They are reaching out to members to counter some wrong information that got sent out by an HR employee. We have a response from Dimitri, an AFT lawyer, that rebuts some of that info.
• Discussion of whether people will get paid if they walk out, does withholding pay constitute retaliation
• What are classified staff allowed to do? What are faculty allowed to do? People have questions. Request to share information. There is a walkout FAQ that has been shared out.

Walkout update

2:45-3:00

• Revisions for North walkout/messaging, Shireen will work with Anna Shaver to coordinate North folks to tell them to go directly to Central
• Press release going out tomorrow
• Program at Central starts at 10:45
• Furloughs being protested are local, not state (the recently passed state budget did not include furloughs but SCD still has proposed 12 furloughs for WFSE)--more updates in section below
• Message is still “cuts to education will hurt our future”

CAT Proposal

CAT requested $1500 for walkout costs for sound system (cost around $1400 last time), ASL interpretation (around $500), and food and sign-making supplies.

Greta Treistman moves to approve $1500 for CAT to cover walkout costs, Dave Ellenwood seconds

8 yes, 1 no, 0 abstain

Motion passes

Walkout Guide and FAQ

Sign-making party at Central tomorrow, Jean has flyers

State Budget

2:55

AFTWA Bob Downing gave an update on the state budget:

• 1.5% cut to CTCs
• Permanently changing how COLA gets calculated (lower inflation price index will make COLAs lower)
• OFM safe
• Limits to how much tuition can go up will be respected
• Grant money will go down
• Not worst case scenario for higher ed, but will still force some cuts to some schools
• RIFs at Renton Tech (trades & enrolment related)

Negotiations

3:00-3:15

Cristóbal Borges gave an update:

• Brought wages up last Friday
• Working on language in Appendices that eliminates SCIE exclusion
• Next time: professional obligations and non-instructional duties and article 4 (rates of pay)
• Things are close except salary
• Props for the recent salary counter presentation as the last session–how to share this out? Shireen can help

AFTWA Convention

3:15-3:45

Convention is Saturday, May 17th and Sunday, 18th in Tacoma

AFT Bob gave an update:

• Randi Weingarten (AFT National President) will be speaking
• Presenting some resolutions
• Voting on Board of AFTWA (Karen Strickland is stepping down as President)

• Dr Beloved is running for Human Rights VP

• Resolution on adjunct job security
• AFTWA eBoard is recommending per cap increase for union dues (to create equity)--would add new levels for dues for members making >$85,000 and >$100,000

There are still seats open for AFT1789 to send delegates. The maximum number of delegates we can send is 22.

Dave Ellenwood moves to approve delegates individually, Chad Miles seconds

6 yes, 0 no, 2 abstain

Motion passes

Motion found to be irrelevant based on AFT1789 Constitution and By-Laws

Delegates submitted to approve: Julian Barr, Chad Miles, Helena Ribeiro, Lyle Crews, Natalie Simmons, Jay McLean Riggs, dr Beloved Valerie Hunt, Greta Treistman, Cristóbal Borges

Discussion of AFT 1789 Constitution and By-Laws to confirm rules about sending delegates. Above proposal was determined to not align with our Constitution and By-laws, so struck. Discussion of union resources and funds, alignment of delegates views.

To discuss at a later date: what does accountability and support look like to make sure eBoard members are fulfilling duties they committed to?

Helena will submit names of proposed delegates to Rebecca Yedlin for funding reasons.

Discussion re: C_n_r_y M1ss1@n

3:45 - 4pm

What can the union and administration do to support faculty who end up on doxxing lists? Are there material ways that we can support people?

• Idea: Can union offer data scrubbing services for affected members? Parameters (rubric/financial etc?)
• https://joindeleteme.com/ is $200. Is there a group pricing option?
• Is there discussion of this at AFTWA or National? How have other unions responded to other instances of this?
• More info about the group that has listed people here
• What to do to prevent/if you have been doxxed materials? (on website as well?)
  Resources re: doxxing shared by Charlotte:
  https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/doxxing-tips-protect-yourself-online-how-minimize-harm
  
  https://www.equalitylabs.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/ADVANCE-COPY_-EQUALITY-LABS-ANTI-DOXING-GUIDE-FOR-ACTIVISTS-3.0.pdf

4/15/2025

23 Members Present

eBoard Members Present: Alex Korsunsky, Anna Shaver, Brendan Manley, Chad Miles, Cristóbal Borges, Dave Ellenwood, Greta Treistman, Helena Ribeiro, Ila De Leon, Jay Mclean-Riggs, Julian Barr, Justina Rompogren, Lyle Crews, Natalie Simmons, Rebecca Yedlin, Rob Earle, Shireen Deboo, Steph Hankinson

Intro

2:00 - 2:15

Review, amend, approve agenda

Shireen moves to approve, Alex seconds

11 yes, 0 no, 0 abstain

Motion passes

Review, amend, approve notes from Tuesday, March 18

Shireen moves to approve, Brendan seconds

10 yes,

Elections

2:15 - 2:25

Greta:

• Reminder about timeline (Nominations Meeting on Friday 4/25 2-4PM; Nominations open til 5/9; deadline to become a member if you want to vote: 5/5) – more info about elections is collected in these slides
• Request to approve Election & Campaign Rules

Shireen moves to approve the Election and Campaign rules, Cristóbal seconds.

11 yes, 0 no, 0 abstain

Motion passes

• Request to approve Election Buddy cost estimate for certified ballots:

ElectionVote License $99 (includes up to 1,000 voters)

Services - ElectionVote - Expert Setup and Dedicated Assistance - Election Open $599

Services - ElectionVote - Voter Inquiry Management Election Date $500

Total $1,198

Shireen moves to move forward with Election Buddy as the vendor, Greta seconds.

12 yes, 0 no, 0 abstain

Motion passes

Updates

2:25 - 3pm (maybe 3:10?)

Follow up discussion on potential creation of an Organizing Committee (Shireen)

• Additional organizing committee suggests that organizing isn’t a component to the rest of our work. Creating an organizing committee adds additional slots in a body that has been having trouble filling all of its slots.
• CAT has been functioning as an organizing committee. Once negotiations end, CAT will go dormant. There’s a desire to have this kind of organizing work continue. If eBoard were to be a nuts and bolts organizing space, we would need to have far more meeting time.
• No new positions would be added, it would be a committee made up of existing positions that are already doing organizing work (campus presidents, membership chair, etc). Organizing happens through senates, but those folks are doing more to coordinate across the district.

Union Update email this week (Shireen)

• We have a lot going on! Good time to send a newsletter. Who should Shireen check with about what goes in the newsletter? Elections, Grievance, Negotiations, etc.
• Sounds good! Will go out tomorrow or soon.

Grievance Updates (Grievance Committee)

• Julian Barr gave an update:
• Scheduling grievance at South
• What are the processes for student conduct issues? Ongoing conversation with admin. Lack of understanding of power & gender dynamics. Checking on how North is working–if well, could be a model for Central and South.
• All sabbatical applications were denied for this year (based on budget). Some spending freeze things were not stopped because they’re protected by the CBA–sabbaticals are covered by the CBA, so they shouldn’t be frozen.
• Central–some folks lost classes over break, got them back

State Budget and some upcoming actions (AFT Bob)

• Biennial AFTWA convention is in Tacoma May 17-18. Randi Weingarten is coming to speak.
• Summer Institute for Union Women June 23-June 25 in BC. Sponsored by Washington Labor Council.
• Economic Opportunity Institute annual dinner at Seattle Center on May 8–thinktank for progressive taxation. AFTWA has a table, no cost to AFT1789. Reach out to Bob if you’d like to join.
• This is the last week to give input on the state budget proposal. AFTWA is asking locals to send a group letter to legislators around budget goals. Let them know if we’re interested in sending a letter.

• Helena can work with Bob to edit the letter a little bit. Some discussion/critique about the wording and arguments made in the AFTWA letter centering the “business community.” There are live bills right now that will influence taxation of the “business community.”

Dave moves to send this letter with edits made by Helena to key legislators in Seattle and the Governor. Shireen seconds.

12 yes, 0 no, 0 abstain

Motion passes.

• Indivisible website has lots of protests listed. Showing up builds union credibility.

Mayoral Candidate endorsement discussion (Richard Burton AFTWA)

• Ask for involvement in local elections. Plug to create endorsement process–AFT1789 makes recommendations for endorsements to AFTWA, they make the endorsement and send candidates money etc. Could host a candidate forum. Could also send candidates questionnaires.
• Primary is in August. Getting endorsements early can make a big difference for candidates.
• May 16 (right before the convention) is the last day to make recommendations to AFTWA for endorsement.
• Alex, Julian, Dave, Chad, Dave Lopez, Dr Beloved will work on this–get in touch with Richard.

Solidarity Statement re Student Visa Revocations update (Helena):

• Crew was formed to work on a letter (suggested at last membership meeting). Ongoing.

• related: can we set up a resources page somewhere? Maybe even in google drive? So many links/resources/webinars/calls/events/conferences are flowing through our inboxes -- maybe we can start posting these somewhere? Shireen will check in with Helena about this.

Proposal Re: May Day (request from Vero)

MLK Labor requests AFT1789 contribute $1500 to support the May Day parade and to promote the event to AFT1789 members.

Julian moves to assist the MLK Labor council with a $1500 contribution. Dave seconds.

10 yes, 0 no, 0 abstain

Motion passes

Negotiations Update (Dave and Cristóbal)

3:20 - 3:40

Continuing conversation from Friday’s membership meeting about where to go with counteroffer & potential action:

• Friday 4/25 is the next session:

• SCIE stuff getting wrapped up
• Tenure proposal
• MOU
• Instructional & non-instructional obligation

• 100+ responses to survey for temp check. Leaning toward action but close
• Alex will send survey link again over text.
• What’s the goal for number of responses?
• Suggestion for an anonymous reply option & for breakdown of PT vs FT
• Backpay vs furloughs could be equivalent
• If numbers are low in responses, reflects hesitation
• Talk to your members in your departments
• Anecdotally there is hesitation
• When will the decision be made?

Proposal to endorse: Contingent Faculty Issues Caucus resolution (Rob, later in the meeting)

3:40 - 3:47

I have been asked by the CFIC to run the attached resolution by the e-Board for endorsement. The resolution will be presented at the state convention. The bullet points are:

• AFT Washington will create a task force of both tenure-track and contingent faculty to address these issues, report in May 2026, and explore a One-Tier Faculty System.

• Locals are encouraged to bargain for just-cause protections, promotion pathways, workload stability, equitable pay, and professional development access.

• AFT Washington will support locals, mobilize members, and build coalitions to push for legislative change and public support.

Cristóbal moves to endorse the resolution to be voted on. Brendan seconds.

11 yes, 0 no, 0 abstain

Motion passes

Upcoming

• Solidarity 101: How We Be Together with Dean Spade

Thursday, April 17, 1-3 pm MAC 210 at Central or register for zoom link

• AFTWA elections -- two candidates have requested time to speak to our eboard to seek our endorsement. Elections are next month; Convention will be in Tacoma -- shall we invite them to the next eboard meeting/membership meeting? (Helena)

eVote to Endorse Walkout

Emergency motion to endorse May Day walkout over email

9 yes, 0 no, 2 abstain

Motion passes

3/18/2025

30 Members Present

eBoard Members Present: Alex Korsunsky, Anna Shaver, Brendan Manley, Charlotte Brun, Cristóbal Borges, Dave Ellenwood, Greta Treistman, Helena Ribeiro, Ila De Leon, Jay Mclean-Riggs, Jean Fallow, Jessica Logan, Julian Barr, Justina Rompogren, Lyle Crews, Natalie Simmons, Rebecca Yedlin, Shireen Deboo, Steph Hankinson

Intro

2 - 2:15

Review, amend, approve agenda

Shireen Deboo moves to approve, Julian Barr seconds

10 yes, 0 no, 0 abstain

Agenda approved

Review, amend, approve notes from Tues March 4

Greta Treistman moves to approve, Dave Ellenwood seconds

10 yes, 0 no, 1 abstain

Notes approved

Updates

2:15 - 2:45

Proposed MOU regarding Math & Science Dean at North:

Justina Rompogren and Cristóbal Borges gave an update about the North Dean of Math and Sciences: the position has been vacant, there is an interim dean. Hiring process was frozen because of budget cuts, no clarity on when it will restart. There is a DRAFT MOU proposal to appoint the current interim dean as the permanent dean.

• Goal is to prevent the dean position from being eliminated.
• MOU tries to be careful not to allow a precedent for backdoor hiring into dean positions.
• The lack of a dean, transparency & stability, has been causing harm for faculty working conditions.
• There could be value in creating documentation of the support for a permanent dean, even if the MOU ends up not leading to the dean position becoming permanent.
• Interim extensions have to be in 6 month increments.
• Having a dean helps to have an advocate for the division.
• Why not run it by HR? There’s no permanent HR person currently to discuss with? Why not push hard for the hiring process to start?
• The department has gotten signatures from 22 out of 23 full time faculty for approval. Many PT faculty also approved.

MOTION: Shireen Deboo moved to accept the proposed MOU with Trish Root’s letter as an appendix [contact Secretary to view letter]. Cristóbal Borges seconded. Julian Barr proposed an amendment to run the MOU by the AFT lawyer. Shireen and Cristóbal accept the amendment. Helena will send the proposed MOU to the AFT lawyer.

13 yes, 0 no, 0 abstain

Motion approved

Elections

Greta Treistman gave an update: not much to report, just a reminder to think about recruiting people to eBoard, especially the vacant positions. Human & Civil Rights Chair and Political Action Chair are opportunities for us to organize and do more.

Comms

Shireen Deboo gave an update:

• There’s a public Google calendar with events. This is shared on the website and linked on all the forthcoming emails going out.
• Shireen has asked South, Central, and North to add their events to this calendar.
• Working with someone from AFT WA on website glitches.
• Discussion about sharing meeting minutes or a summary of key points with members in a timely way (eBoard Meetings and Member Meetings).

Notes from Central Budget Presentation

Jay McLean-Riggs gave an update from the recent presentation on Central’s budget:

• District is discussing furloughs (one day a month for everyone)
• Central discussing people under a certain amount of income not having to take them
• Central is saying “nothing is off the table”
• Want to cut 81 sections in a year. Enrolment will be taken into consideration. Central: 10-15% cuts across the board. Suggestion to shrink summer sections, summer building closures.
• North is moving faster than Central on deciding cuts.
• People trying to transfer will be subject to hiring freeze.
• Central decisions by May 1, implemented July 1.
• Discussion about implications for PT & PHL faculty; contract negotiations; organizing outside of SCD (at the state level); how revenue is generated for the colleges.

Grievance

Julian Barr gave an update:

• WIN! For the student misconduct issue at South, we got all the remedies asked for including even an additional one. Working on a “narrative correction” for admin.
• Central conduct issue is ongoing.
• Once resolved, there will be more work done on the overall conduct process.
• Working on high demand funds at Central; eventually this will be worked on through District.
• Security issues at South’s New Holly campus.

not discussed due to time—Concerns re: faculty shuffling at Central (Helena)

Negotiations Stipend Proposal

2:45 - 3:00

Context: Originally eBoard voted that eBoard officers wouldn’t get additional stipends for serving on the Negotiations Team. A lot of work on Negotiations has been done by two people (Julian Barr and Jean Fallow) who joined the team after this was decided, and it has been a lot of work.

• additional stipends could be considered for eBoard officers serving on the Part-time CIT as well.
• Things have changed and things have been learned since negotiations started and decisions were made about compensation.
• Discussion about rates for different roles, eBoard having information about what the budget looks like in order to make informed decisions about spending.
• Paying people for labor is important and it’s also important to pay appropriately for the amount of work done; allow people to step back when capacity changes

MOTION: Justina Rompogren moves to retroactively pay Julian Barr for Fall 2024 Quarter and Winter 2025 Quarter and Jean Fallow for since they have joined the Negotiations team, with an amendment to add Julian Barr to the Negotiations team, and to continue to pay Jean Fallow and Julian Barr stipends going forward.

Motion Tabled

Negotiations

3:00 - 3:30

Dave Ellenwood gave an update on plan for this Friday.

• Calendar, class caps
• Instructional vs non-instructional work, obligations
• Waiting to see what they bring

CAT update?

3:30- 3:45

No update from CAT

Workshops and Trainings

Labornotes Stewards’ Workshop: Investigating Grievances

• March 31 4:30-6pm pst

Labornotes: Secrets of a Successful Organizer (Organizing 101)

• 3 parts: Wed April 2, April 9, April 16 4:30-6:30 pm

3/4/2025

23 Members Present

eBoard Members Present: Alex Korsunsky, Anna Shaver, Brendan Manley, Chad Miles, Charlotte Brun, Cristóbal Borges, Dave Ellenwood, Greta Treistman, Helena Ribeiro, Ila De Leon, Jean Fallow, Julian Barr, Justina Rompogren, Lyle Crews, Natalie Simmons, Rebecca Yedlin, Shireen Deboo, Steph Hankinson

Intro

2 - 2:15

Quorum unlocked: 2:04

Review, amend, approve agenda

9 yes, 0 no, 1 abstain

Review, amend, approve notes from Tues, Feb 18 (below)

7 yes, 0 no, 1 abstain

Reminder: March 18 meeting will be in-person/hybrid (at North?)

Comms/Tech Co-chairs appointment

2:15- 2:25

Anna Shaver moves to appoint Shireen Deboo (FT librarian, North) and Sherese Card (PT librarian, Central) as Communications/Technology Co-chairs

11 yes, 0 no, 0 abstain

Updates

2:25-2:45

Elections Committee:

Greta Treistman gave an update and shared elections & campaign rules with eBoard. Documents are in the Elections folder in our shared eBoard Google Drive. There was some discussion about whether to have mailers from candidates for campaigning.

Grievance Committee:

Julian Barr gave an update about student misconduct issues being mishandled. Reach out to Grievance Committee if you have examples of student misconduct cases (either well-handled or not well-handled).

Chad Miles gave an update about an issue with Temporary Full-time High Demand faculty not being paid properly. They are looking for more examples of this.

Justina Rompgren gave an update about the vacant Math and Sciences dean position at North. Also, North’s Campus is closing for a week in May for repairs. Dev Day at North will be on a different day from the rest of District in order to alleviate lost class time. They will be signing an MOU.

Funding Requests

3pm - 3:15pm

Jean Fallow moves to give Dave Ellenwood 5 hours of release time next quarter to work on negotiations. Charlotte Brun seconds.

10 yes, 0 no, 1 abstain

Motion passes

Julian Barr moves that we host an AFT-sponsored district-wide event in the Spring with Dean Spade and pay a speaker fee of $3500. Greta Treistman seconds.

Further discussion: Dean Spade would talk about how to support queer & trans students, how to care for each other, mutual aid, conflict resolution, and more.

9 yes, 0 no, 2 abstain

Motion passes

CAT Team Update/Request

3:15-3:35

Althea Lazzaro gave an update. There was a successful action two weeks ago. Posters are going up soon.

There was an update on how to retain/recruit people to CAT, or rather how to make sure that organizing is happening within our union. CAT seems to lose people power to eboard over time. College Senates could serve as organizing bodies in addition to CAT or taking over from CAT. Senates are not set up to coordinate across campuses, whereas CAT is. CAT and Senators are unpaid. What are the organizing roles and expectations across eBoard, Senates, and CAT?

Negotiations Update

3:35 - 3:45pm

Dave Ellenwood and Cristóbal Borges gave an update. Getting closer on a lot of items but slow on salary.

Upcoming/Fundraising Requests

3:55 - 4

• (NWIRP fundraising gala) (move to next meeting agenda?)
• Lounge donut days at Central? (Jay?)
• Labornotes workshop: Organizing to Protect Immigrant Rights and Public Education

Tuesday, March 18; 7.30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Eastern (4.30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Pacific)

• Labornotes Troublemakers School

• In Portland on Saturday, May 3 9am- 4pm; registration: $10; registration not yet open, contact labornotespdx@gmail.com 

Executive Session: Discussion regarding rights & responsibilities/do’s & don’ts of serving as union rep for faculty, communicating with admin

3:45- 4pm

Cristóbal Borges moved to allow Bob Downing, our AFT Washington representative, to stay in the executive session.

Brendan Manley seconded

13 yes, 0 no, 0 abstain

Do’s while serving as a union rep for a member during an interview with admin/HR for a maxient investigation:

Take notes.

Pause to caucus with a member.

Pause (but not stop) the process if there are questions about the process or line of questioning.

Pause the caucus with the member.

Provide relevant documents.

Debrief with the member.

If a follow-up is required, always check in with another union/grievance rep.

Ask a grievance chair or president about what things need to stay confidential.

Be clear about what capacity you are communicating from (especially for eboard members–use your AFT email)

Don’ts while serving as a union rep:

Don’t answer for the person.

Don’t terminate the interview.

Don’t follow up without checking with other union folks.

Never communicate alone with admin.

2/18/2025

18 Members Present

eBoard Members Present: Anna Shaver, Brendan Manley, Chad Miles, Cristóbal Borges, Dave Ellenwood, Greta Treistman, Helena Ribeiro, Jay Mclean-Riggs, Jean Fallow, Justina Rompogren, Lyle Crews, Natalie Simmons, Rebecca Yedlin, Steph Hankinson

Intro

2-2:15pm

Review, amend, approve agenda

Review, amend, approve minutes from Feb 4

Motion to approve agenda 8-0-0

Motion to approve notes 8-0-0

Updates

2:15- 2:30

Grievance Updates

• Steph reported from South
• Justina reported from North
• Chad and Brendan reported from Central

Lobby Day updates

• Bob, Cristóbal, Helena, and Dave reported back
• >100 people! Good turnout
• Potential of bill for 85% pay for contingent faculty

Treasurer Updates

• Rebecca gave an update
• Check in with Rebecca if you need a 1099

Negotiations Updates

2:30-3pm

Dave and Cristóbal gave a report on proposals/counters

• potential proposals were discussed at last week’s member meeting

AFT Proposals for Friday: 4 for sure!

• Pay
• Calendar
• Instructional & non-instructional obligations

CAT Team update

3-3:15

• Chad reported
• BOT action last week
• Presented petition with signatures
• Looking to turn folks out to Friday negotiations at Central (Alex will send email with sign up sheet to members)
• Sign up form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSczDPubDXiHtt34vLlOE-FofE4-7uFg6kftfCgzxAZ04fmPHA/viewform?usp=send_form
• Post negotiations happy hour at Stout

Swag proposal (Jay)

3:15-3:30

the people want more sweatshirts

• yearly swag budget? co-budget with wfse?
• current budget is $6000 (under membership)
• potentially more local 1789 blue stuff—blue sweatshirts?
• Jay will move forward, with support from Helena & Lyle

AI Taskforce

3:30 -3:45

Cristóbal and Greg reported

• AFT 1789 rep will be sent to district AI task force
• Task force meets Wednesdays 3-5
• CBA Article 12.2

Who will go?

• Julian & Dave can go next week

2/4/2025

25 Members Present

eBoard Members Present: Anna Shaver, Chad Miles, Dave Ellenwood, Greta Treistman, Ila De Leon, Jean Fallow, Julian Barr, Justina Rompogren, Natalie Simmons, Rebecca Yedlin, Steph Hankinson, Brendan Manley, Cristóbal Borges, Dr Beloved Hunt, Helena Ribeiro, Lyle Crews

Intro

2-2:15

Review, amend, approve agenda

11 yes, 0 no, 0 abstain

Review, amend, approve notes from Jan 21

10 yes, 0 no, 1 abstain

Updates

2:15-2:45

Grievance

• Julian Barr gave an update on active grievances
• Discussion about how weather-related late starts impact online classes

• “Respect the Snow Day”
• Helena will look for documentation about clarity of these policies & connect with Julian

Treasurer

• Rebecca Yedlin gave an update on forms from new bookkeeper
• Lots of love for Sharra!

President 

• Helena Ribeiro gave an update on how we know data about our bargaining unit. District numbers and lists are inaccurate.
• Grievance has been working on a newsletter.

• If you have tidbits to include, send them to Helena.

Discussion: Should we include member names on public minutes?

• Greta, Anna, and Helena will make sure the publicly shared eboard minutes are all readable, findable, and not shared information publicly until it has been approved
• Minutes will show number of rank and file members attending but not list their names. Eboard officers names will be listed.  

Discussion: South Senate Faculty PTF stipend?

• Ila brought a question about potentially offering a stipend for senators at South

Concerns re: Admin/AI

Negotiations update and discussion (Dave and Cristóbal)

2:45-3:15

• Past Friday’s session
• Upcoming session
• Faculty transfer proposal
• Union Bandwidth, negotiations and dealing with Trump directives.

Cat Team Update

3:15 -3:30

Cat Team Budget Request (Charlotte?)

Coming up

3:30 - 4pm

- Donuts and Solidarity at Central tomorrow! Union lounge (BE3324) 10am- 2pm

- Membership meeting Feb 14th

- Lobby Day: Gov’s budget has requested fully-funded 3%? (2025)  and 2%? (2026) COLAs for biennium. We gotta make sure we get that.

-​​Luis Cortes Romero at South for PD Day 1-2, also hybrid.

1/31/2025

46 Members Present

eBoard Members Present: Alex Korsunsky, Anna Shaver, Brendan Manley, Chad Miles, Cristóbal Borges, Dave Ellenwood, Helena Ribeiro, Ila De Leon, Jay Mclean-Riggs, Rebecca Yedlin, Rob Earle

Intro

2-2:15

stackwatcher/chat-tracker: Anna

Notetaker (Greta is out sick): Dave/Chad

Review, edit, amend, approve agenda

7 yes, 0 no, 0 abstain. Motion passes.

Review, edit, amend, approve minutes from 1/7

Jean’s statement appended to 1-7-25 minutes?

Julian Barr moves to add Jean’s Statement to the minutes from 1-7-25. Brendan Manley Seconds (to read Jean’s statement, please visit the member Google drive–email secretary@aftseattle.org for access)

8 yes, 0 no, 0 abstain. Motion passes.

Approve amended minutes. Brendan Manley moves to approve, Julian Barr seconds

7 yes, 0 no, 0 abstain. Motion passes.

Announcements

2:15-2:30

• In memoriam (Julian)

• Frank Post of Mathematics at South passed away. He worked at South for 40 years. Eboard held a moment of silence in his memory.

• Appointment of Jean Fallow as co-PT Representative for Central.

• Rob Earle nominated Jean to be co-PT representative for Central.
• Brendan Manley moves to appoint Jean Fallow as co-PT rep based on Rob Earle’s nomination and providing her with the full stipend. Julian Barr seconds.
• 9 yes, 0 no, 0 abstain. Motion passes. 

• Announcing new senator at Central - Deb Rose
• Presentation on APALA banquet/fundraiser (Tracy Lai; details below in “Addendum)

• Banquet is earlier this year than in past years (will be on Jan 31)
• Guests: Amy Leong and Paul Ryan Villanueva, staff organizers at the APALA are guests.
• Presentation of ways AFT 1789 and APALA can be in solidarity with each other, join the jan 31 banquet.
• Cristobal Borges moves to purchase a table at the APALA banquet.
• 9 yes, 0 no, 0 abstain. Motion passes.
• We discussed developing an advert for the APALA banquet pamphlet
• Julian Barr proposes we create an full page ad (650)  for the banquet based on the trifold created by CAT. Julian and Jay will work together to create this. Brendan Manley seconds.
• 8 yes, 0 no, 0 abstain. Motion passes.

• Lobby Day: sign up here ; then pick 5 people you’re going to reach out to

• AFT Bob made a pitch to join and participate at Lobby Day.  

• National Labor for Ceasefire end military support to Israel sign on (Greta)

• Chad Miles proposes we sign on to the petition.
• 8 yes, 0 no, 0 abstain. Motion passes.

• [AFT WA elections are coming up, and folks would like time to talk to our Board (does Bob have a process/protocol to share with us on this?); Emeritus list was submitted, will be sending out a form for 2024 emeritus; Printing fees for info picket fliers (Helena)]

• Tabled due to time

Chair Updates

2:30-3pm

Grievance Committee (Julian)

• Julian Barr reported

Secretary (Greta, in absentia)

• Helena Ribeiro reported for Greta Treistman
• Minutes will be posted to aft website upon approval, but not sent through SCD email except maybe as a link in newsletter or something like that

Treasurer (Rebecca) -- bookkeeper update

• Rebecca Yedlin reported on new bookkeeper.

Audit Committee (Steph)

Negotiations Update

3pm- 3:30pm

Dave and Cristobal gave an update on calendar proposals

CAT Team Update (Chad)

3:30-3:45pm

Chad provided an update on CAT team tabling/instructional picketing

Upcoming Workshops/Trainings/Meetings

3:45 - 4pm  

MLKLC Monthly Delegate Meeting: February Delegate Meeting

Seattle Labor Temple 5030 1st Ave South, Seattle, WA, United States

The February Delegate Meeting will be on 2/19/25 at 6 pm at the Seattle Labor Temple (5030 1st Ave. South, Seattle) (As of 2024, we can have up to 4 delegates; voting strength: 418)

CTC Council (AFTWA): Sat Feb 1 9am-12pm (Helena has been attending, but if other folks want to come, let Bob know and he’ll get you links!)

MLKLC Immigration Defense Training Thurs Jan 23 noon-4pm @ Labor Temple (5030 1st Ave S, Seattle) . RSVP required; space is limited

LaborNotes Stewards' Workshop: Holding Effective Meetings (Wed Jan 29 4pm - 5:30pm on Zoom)

LaborNotes Secrets of a Successful Organizer (Thurs Jan 30 4:30-6:30pm on zoom)

Appendix

APALA Banquet info (from email) :

The Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), AFL-CIO, Seattle Chapter invites AFT 1789 to join us for our 26th annual fundraising banquet and silent auction on Friday, January 31, 2025, from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm in person at the Jerry Brockey Center, South Seattle College. This year, our theme, “Forward Together: Protect Our Democracy,” calls us to action. Over the past year, we’ve seen relentless attacks to erode workers’ and immigrants’ rights and undermine hard-won protections. With the general election's outcome and prolonged fights for a fair worker’s contract, we cannot relent. We must remain steadfast, united, and ready to push back against every attempt to silence or exploit our communities.  Join our Asian American Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander communities as we come together to advance a democratic movement for social justice and safeguard our democracy for future generations.

Please stand with us in this critical moment by supporting our annual banquet in the following ways:

• Reserve a table or tickets to attend the banquet ($100/regular; $60/youth, students, seniors; table of 8 = $800). Annual membership dues are included. Purchase tickets by 5 pm on Monday, January 27th to secure the early bird rate. Prices increase by $10 after January 27th and at the door.
• Purchase an ad in our Recipe Program booklet (rate sheet attached).
• Donate items to our silent auction to help raise essential funds for our cause.

We also welcome recipe contributions for the program booklet. Please send a camera-ready ad copy by Friday, January 17, to apalawa@gmail.com. Checks may be payable to APALA, P.O. Box 84269, Seattle, WA 98124.

Ad rates (not to scale)

1/7/2025

25 Members Present

eBoard Members Present: Alex Korsunsky, Brendan Manley, Chad Miles, Charlotte Brun, Cristóbal Borges, Dave Ellenwood, Dr Beloved Hunt, Greta Treistman, Helena Ribeiro, Jay Mclean-Riggs, Jean Fallow, Julian Barr, Justina Rompogren, Lyle Crews, Natalie Simmons, Rebecca Yedlin, Steph Hankinson

Intro

2:00-2:15

Stackwatcher: Jim Jewell

Timekeeper: Julian Barr

Notetaker: Greta

Review, edit, amend and approve agenda:

11 yes, 1 no, 0 abstain. Motion passes.

Review, edit, amend, approve notes:

10 yes, 0 no, 0 abstain. Motion passes.

Updates

2:15-2:30

President update

Winter 2025 workplan/committees review

Bylaws review:

• Please review your job description and leave comments on this review document here by January 21
• Bylaws committee: Cristóbal Borges, Chad Miles, Brendan Manley, Julian Barr, Greg Bachar

• TO-DO: Look over by-laws document & comments; bring summary to eBoard. Helena Ribeiro will send a reminder email.

Monthly Newsletter:

• Julian has a template
• Send Helena “story” ideas until we have a communications chair

We need a communications chair!

Emeritus updates?

• No updates

Grievance Committee

Julian Barr gave an update on grievances.

Proposal: Julian Barr moved that Helena will send a communication to VPIs and Deans that they should only recognize official grievances that come from the AFT grievance committee. If they receive a communication from elsewhere, they should respond and communicate this to the grievance committee.

• 11 yes, 0 no, 1 abstain. Motion passes.

Treasurer

New bookkeeper hiring:

• Rebecca Yedlin gave an update; there was a discussion about number of hours and hourly rate for our new bookkeeper.
• Lyle Crews might join the meeting with the prospective bookkeeper.
• Proposal: Rebecca Yedlin proposed that assuming we hire Shara (sp?), we negotiate to hire her at the $95 an hour stipend rate, assuming that she will need more hours when she first starts.
• Proposal tabled after some discussion (no vote).

Confirm president stipends for Winter Quarter:

• If someone needs a course release instead of a stipend, let Rebecca know ASAP please.

Audit Committee

• Steph Hankinson gave an update on the audit.

Discussion regarding communications from PT President

2:30-3:15

Dave Ellenwood and Cristóbal Borges brought up recent emails and a pattern of communications from PT President; issues were discussed. There was also discussion about how to streamline AFT communications that get sent via the Seattle Colleges District servers so that all communications get double checked by more than one union leader for messaging consistency.

Negotiations and CAT! Team updates

3:15-3:40

Cristóbal Borges and Dave Ellenwood gave a negotiations update:

• Proposal Review meetings will happen Mondays 2:30-3:30. Dave Ellenwood will send calendar invites. Everyone is welcome.
• NAG (Negotiations Advisory Group) meetings likely to be Thursdays at 1. Dave Ellenwood will send calendar invites.

Chad Miles gave a Contract Action Team update:

• Board of Trustees action kudos
• CAT will meet on Thursdays
• Wear union blue every Thursday! Tell senates to spread the word
• Majority petition is ongoing
• Upcoming AFT WA lobby day on Monday, February 17 Sign up Here

Coming up

3:40-4pm

Swag discussion (Jay McLean-Riggs): postponed due to Jay having to go to another meeting

Upcoming Labor Notes trainings:

• Race and Labor, Jan 9th 4:30-6:30pm on zoom
• Beating the Billionaires in 2025 Jan 27 4:30-6:30pm on zoom
• Stewards’ Workshop: Holding Effective Meetings (Wed Jan 29 4pm - 5:30pm on Zoom

Upcoming Membership Meeting January 17th:

• TO DO: set agenda items and facilitators
• TO DO: compile previous membership meeting notes from 2023-2024 into a single document

Upcoming eBoard meeting at Central:

Proposal: Dave Ellenwood moved that eBoard host the 2nd and last meetings of winter quarter in hybrid format, with the upcoming eBoard meeting to be hybrid at Central on January 21.

• 11 yes, 0 no, 0 abstain
• Motion passed

Upcoming trainings and lobby days:

AFT WA worksite representative training - January 21

AFT WA contract enforcement & grievance training - January 29

There will be a WA state labor council lobby day in February.

AFT WA Lobby Day Monday, February 17th: Sign up Here

Note-taking

There was some discussion about the benefits of a light, streamlined style of note-taking for eBoard notes.

12/3/2024

25 Members Present

eBoard Members Present: Alex Korsunsky, Anna Shaver, Brendan Manley, Chad Miles, Charlotte Brun, Cristóbal Borges, Dave Ellenwood, Dr Beloved Hunt, Greta Treistman, Helena Ribeiro, Ila De Leon, Jay Mclean-Riggs, Julian Barr, Justina Rompogren, Lyle Crews, Natalie Simmons, Rebecca Yedlin, Rob Earle, Steph Hankinson

Intro

2-2:15

Stackwatcher: Charlotte

Timekeeper: Rebecca

Notes by Greta

Review, amend, approve agenda

12 yeses, 0 nos, 0 abstained

Review, amend, approve notes from Nov 19

Updates

2:15-2:45

• President updates: forthcoming (monthly?) newsletter
• Need folks to review emeritus requests; at least one person from each college. Criteria is based on time serving the district -- review will be to check the dates, submit final list to Helena by Jan 7th: volunteers: dr beloved, Lyle, South Senate will report a volunteer
• We have an instagram account! @aft.seattle
• Quick Treasurer Update on E-board Fall Stipends; Rebecca Yedlin reported
• Charlotte Brun reported for South Faculty Senate
• Grievance Updates; Julian Barr reported

Negotiations Updates

• Cristobal presented on most recent negotiations session
• Question to eBoard: SCD suggested we issue a joint statement about our tentative agreements. eBoard discussed.

2:45 - 3pm

Break!

3-3:10 pm

CAT team updates (Althea)

3:10-3:15

• Althea presented on CAT plans, including escalation calendar; utility of a majority petition,
• Alex reminded eBoard to take a look at draft majority petition emailed last week.

AFL CIO conference discussion and proposal

3:15- 3:25

• Email votes logistics (Helena)
• Julian moved to make an email vote on whether to send x number of officers to conference in January, once we have more necessary information.
• Charlotte seconded
• Motion passes: 9 yes, 0 no, 0 abs

Temperature check on changing meeting days in Winter

3:25 - 3:35

• Helena will send out a poll

Announcements/requests

WA Yell! December 9 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm event at Central; Register: RSVP here!

APALA banquet request: APALA banquet request: https://app.sparkmailapp.com/web-share/KY8RRYXu0KGCaTKzykZKapCySDE4DVAL_pGg5mrx

• Helena will bring this up again at first eBoard meeting in January

11/19/2024

21 Members Present

eBoard Members Present: Anna Shaver, Brendan Manley, Chad Miles, Cristóbal Borges, Dr Beloved Hunt, Greta Treistman, Helena Ribeiro, Ila De Leon, Jay Mclean-Riggs, Julian Barr, Justina Rompogren, Natalie Simmons, Rebecca Yedlin, Rob Earle

Intro

2 - 2:15

Notetaker: Greta

Stackwatcher: Dave

Timekeeper: ila

Review, amend, approve agenda Passed 10 yes, 0 no, 0 abstentions

Review, amend, approve notes from Nov 5 Brendan moved to approve, Passed 10-0-0

Updates

2:15 - 2:30

• Grievance updates Julian Barr reported
• Treasurer updates Rebecca Yedlin reported

• Closing books with bookkeeper as of Nov 30, hiring committee formed for new one
• Goal is to have new bookkeeper start in January in time for tax season

• Anyone else? Senates?
• Concerns about Dismissal Committee Natalie brought questions and Helena answered (article 8.2)
• Membership drive/audit AFT Bob reported on drive at Central and North

Grievance Committee Request

2:30-3pm

• Jes Pikul reports on the need for more support/representation with grievances at North
• Helena reported on legal importance of using grievance process

• Natalie moved to initiate an hourly stipend rate for Corey Fike for his work as a PT representative on the grievance committee
• Julian Barr seconded
• 10 yes, 1 no, 0 abstentions
• Motion passed

Negotiations update

3 - 3:30

• Misinfo re: “evergreen year” Dave reported to clarify our lawyer stated the “evergreen year” was not accurate, he recommends we refer to it as “status quo” (direct questions to Dave and Cristóbal
• Cristóbal and Dave reported on negotiations.

• CAT team update (Althea reported)

• “Blue up” Thursdays -- Swag Request Form!(https://forms.gle/ZYh41f4uPcXPdQ1n7)
• Sign up for BOT meeting action on Thursday 12/12 https://docs.google.com/document/d/161dUn4RkD-ps6zISnEFWjEpW2dakxHh4KqnSd0gFSVM/edit?tab=t.0

Proposals

3:30 pm- 4pm

• One in-person eboard meeting per quarter, rotating colleges/location (Julian)

• Julian proposes that eBoard meets hy/flex in person once per quarter, rotating college campus eveery quarter; for this Fall 2024 quarter our last eBoard meeting will be in person.
• Motion passed 9-0-0
• Rebecca proposed the 12/3 eBoard meeting take place at South, followed by Winter Party
• Motion passed 10-0-0

• Dave moves to to appoint Greta as Secretary Passed 10-0-0; Greta will step down as South’s PT rep, and will work to recruit a new one

• Recording email vote re: org sign-on to letter to Patty Murray. Greta moved to request the Eboard sign onto letter via email; motion passed 8 yes, 1 no, and 0 abstentions
• Release time for Dave (rest of Fall, all of Winter q) and Cristóbal (winter quarter)

• Dave moved to approve released time for Dave Ellenwood of 5 hours per week for the remainder of Fall quarter 2024, beginning on Tuesday 11/19, at a cost of approximately $1850.00
• Motion passed 10-0-0
• Dave moved to approve released time for Dave Ellenwood of 5 hours for Winter quarter 2025, at a cost of $4500.00
• Motion passed 10-0-0
• Dave moved to approve ⅓ released time for Cristóbal Borges for Winter quarter 2025, at a cost of about $13,300.00
• Motion passed 9-0-1

11/5/2024

24 Members Present

eBoard Members Present: Anna Shaver, Brendan Manley, Chad Miles, Charlotte Brun, Dave Ellenwood, Dr Beloved Hunt, Greta Treistman, Helena Ribeiro, Jay Mclean-Riggs, Julian Barr, Justina Rompogren, Lyle Crews, Natalie Simmons, Rebecca Yedlin, Rob Earle, Steph Hankinson

intro

2 - 2:15

Notetaker: Rob Earle

Stackwatcher: Cristóbal

Timekeeper: Dr Beloved

Review, amend, approve agenda Rob Earle moved to approve. Passed 12-0-0

Review, amend, approve notes Lyle Crews moved to approve. Passed 12-0-0

Updates

2:15 - 2:45pm

Grievance Committee Julian Barr reported.

Negotiations Dave Ellenwood and Cristóbal Borges reported

-- BOT action 11/7 -- talking points

Treasury

(Membership meeting item below if time)

Prof Issues Updates (3:00-3:30)

2:45 pm

Beloved Val Hunt reported

Proposals 3:30 - 3:45

3:15- 3:45

• released time for Dave and Cristobal, winter 2025 (Dave and Cristóbal)

• Proposal: released time for Dave and Cristobal for Winter 25
• 5 credit hours for Cristobal; 33% of quarterly base salary (NSC: AHSS)
• 5 weekly hours for Dave for Winter 2025 (SCC Library)

• released time for Dave remainder of Fall 2024 (Dave)

• Proposal: Up to 5 hours per week of released time for Dave for the remainder of Fall quarter.
• Dave Ellenwood proposed getting financial information for these proposals, then voting on it via email. Passed 14-0-0

• forming hiring committee for new bookkeeper (Rebecca) Rebecca Yedlin moved this proposal. Passed 13-1-0
• request for funding attendance at AFLCIO conference (Val)

Membership Meeting coming up! 2-4pm! 3:45 - 3:50

• Supposed to be Nov 8th (second friday of the month), but is that enough lead time? Move to the 15th? Rob Earle proposed moving the meeting. Passed 11-1-0
• Who will send out invites, emails, etc
• Who will facilitate?

-- needs ask -- childcare/parking/carpooling/what else would help folks to get to neg in person?

Upcoming trainings and workshops 3:50 - 4pm

3:45 - 4pm

• Labornotes “Secrets of a Succesful Organizer” workshops (3-part, Mondays Nov 11, 18, 25 4:30-6:30pm PST, registration: $15/person for all three sessions)  good for officers, senators, and rank-and-file members!
• Labornotes Race and Labor workshops (3-part, Tuesdays  Nov 12, 19, and 26; registration: $10/person for all three sessions)

10/15/2024

19 Members Present

eBoard Members Present: Brendan Manley, Chad Miles, Charlotte Brun, Cristóbal Borges, Dr Beloved Hunt, Greta Treistman, Helena Ribeiro, Jay McLean-Riggs, Julian Barr, Justina Rompogren, Lyle Crews, Natalie Simmons, Rebecca Yedlin, Rob Earle, Steph Hankinson

Intro

2-2:15

• Notetaker:      Rob Earle                   Timekeeper:       Dave            Stack/chatwatcher: Jay
• Review, amend, approve agenda Approved 11-0-0
• Review, amend, approve notes from Oct 1 Justina Romporen moved to approved. Passed 9-0-0
• Quorum: 2:03pm

Updates

2:15-2:45

• Grievance committee (Julian) Julian Barr reported
• Budget Report (Rebecca) Proposed 24-25 AFT Budget.xlsx Rebecca Yedlin reported.
• Jay McLean-Riggs moved the budget be approved. Passed 12-0-1
• Labornotes Steward Training (Chad)

• Wed, Oct 23 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. PST (zoom)

• Link: https://labornotes.org/events/2024/stewards-workshop-make-most-weingarten-rights-october Jay McLean-Riggs moved to allot $10 each for up to 60 elected or prospective elected members for this training.

Negotiations updates

2:45-3:15pm

• Next Session:

• Bargaining Room: Cascade 107
• AFT Huddle Room:
• Happy hour at Wine Academy following the session Dave ellenwood moved to allocate up to $300 for “drinks on the union.” Passed 11-0-0

• (All the meetings, all the links:

• NAG (negotiations advisory group; focus on strategy)  Alternating Thurs XXam - xx am & Fri 9:30-10:30. This week meeting on Friday Oct 18 9:30am -10:30am
  Proposal Review (weekly, times:) EveryTues 12:30-2:30 (2pm on Eboard days): Dave Ellenwood reported on Negotiations Committee status.

Announcement (Natalie)

 Natalie Simmons announced she has appointed Corey Fike as PT rep to the Grievance Committee

Dr Val Hunt moved that a Professional Issues Committee be appointed to address the work we do and how we do it, as well as gather information on the current by-laws as discussed in the meeting. Passed.

3:15-3:20pm

Membership Meeting reportback (Althea) Althea Lazzaro reported

3:20-340

We need a secretary!

3:40-3:45

Solidarity Statement against SPS school closures (Dave)

3:45- 4pm

10/1/2024

22 Members Present

eBoard Members Present: Anna Shaver, Brendan Manley, Chad Miles, Charlotte Brun, Cristóbal Borges, Dave Ellenwood, Greta Treistman, Helena Ribeiro, Ila de Leon, Julian Barr, Justina Rompogren, Lyle Crews, Natalie Simmons, Rebecca Yedlin, Rob Earle, Steph Hankinson

Intro

2 - 2:15pm

Notetaker: Rob

Stackwatcher: Lyle

Timekeeper: Dave

Review, amend, approve agenda Rob E. moved to approve. Passed 9-0-1

Review, amend, approve Aug minutes Justina R. moved to approve. Passed 8-0-2

Fall Updates

2:15 - 2:30

• Welcome new South Faculty Senate Co-chairs!
• Need to set time for Membership Meeting on Oct 11; will be CAT-led. Options: 1-3; 2-4; 3-5pm By poll, time selected was 2pm-4pm.
• State budget error info/update (AFT Bob) Bob Downing reported

Central Grievance Co-chair appointment (Jay/Brendan)

2:30- 2:40 pm

Brendan M. moved to appoint Chad Miles grievance co-chair for Central. Approved 11-0-1

Grievance Updates (Julian/Grievance Committee) Julian B. reported

2:40 pm - 3:00 pm

Negotiations Updates Julian B., Dave E., and Cristóbal B reported

3:00 - 3:30

Budget/Treasury Update (Rebecca) Rebecca reported

3:30 - 3:45

Outside Requests

3:45 - 4pm

• Request from Melody McMillan (Seattle Promise) to talk with faculty prior to City listening sessions on October 17 and 24. Interested to know “ how to meaningfully include faculty voice in the City’s listening sessions. I am also interested in hearing how faculty may prefer to be supported with the continued increase in enrollment of a younger demographic, unrelated to the levy renewal process.” Would like to meet the first week of October -- Helena can do it, but would also like to bring a couple more people to the meeting. It hasn’t been scheduled yet; any takers, as well as some suggested times and dates?

• CTC council meetings: these are monthly meetings of statewide AFT leadership; they happen the first saturday of the month, from 9am- 12pm. Who’s available to attend? Fall Schedule: Oct 5, Nov 2, Dec 7th.

• Request from Chancelor looking for aft folks interested in participating in a “Legislative 101” session/workshop(?) regarding engaging with legislators

If time:

• Siegal Office (Helena)

• Request for folks to look over “new officer guide” work-in-progress — includes links to tech instructions, sign-ins, links, qr codes, forms, etc! Please add suggestions/edits/feedback/info you would have liked to see when you started!

• Academic Calendar working group to create 2-3  Academic calendar options and conduct vote of membership  

• Volunteers:

• AFT Social/Live/Listening events

Move to adjourn. Passed

8/12/2024

9 Members Present

eBoard Members Present: Anna Shaver, Brendan Manley, Cristóbal Borges, Helena Ribeiro, Julian Barr, Justina Rompogren, Natalie Simmons, Rebecca Yedlin, Steph Hankinson

Settling in

10am-10:15

• Amend, edit, approve agenda Julian Barr moves to approve agenda, Steph H seconds. 8y/0n/0a
• Amend, edit, approve July 15 notes

• CB moves to approve notes; BM seconds; 6 y/0n/2ab

Notetaker: Helena  Stackwatcher: Rebecca  Timekeeper: Rebecca

Updates

10:15 - 10:35

• Treasury

• Rebecca Yedlin reported summer eboard stipends will be paid at the end of this week to folks who opted-in in to being on duty for Summer Quarter

• Grievance

• Julian Barr reported for the Grievance committee.
• Julian Barr proposes “pool” of up to 20 stipend hours for grievances (including possible committee members) from Aug 15 - Sept 17th.  Rebecca Yedlin Seconds. Vote: Passes Unanimously.
• Rebecca Yedlin moves to fund up to 10 stipend hours for Treasurer and Membership co-chair to calculate and pay percaps during break. Natalie Simmons seconds. Vote: Passes unanimously.

• Membership

• Anna Shaver reported for membership co-chairs.
• It’s gotten even harder to get lists from District -- might have to be a grievance?

• Anyone else?

Negotiations updates

10:35 - 11am

• Cristobal Borges reported for Negotiations Team.
• Last session for Summer happened on Aug 5th.
• SCD counter on compensation: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12O1NSGO6TXdr0ORzLmDtMhE48SZHA4vq/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=108358119330071965985&rtpof=true&sd=true 
• Next Proposal Working session, tomorrow August 13 at 12:30-2:00
• Next NAG set for Sept. 27 9am
• Next SCD/AFT session will be Sept 27, 1pm-4pm in-person/online hybrid, location TBD

South Senate Proposal

11am - 11:30am

Julian Barr presented on proposal to distribute presidency duties for south’s faculty senate
Proposal: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Zi4JobEuKvtEVQ9YGMBh4BzXxEXaDCYy4OStKITlj2s/edit?usp=sharing

Julian Barr proposes that The South Senate Presidency will be divided by three people who will also take on the role of South Senate Secretary role and be compensated the regular quarterly stipend in-lieu of course release for both roles divided by three; Justina Rompogren seconds.

Vote; 6 yes/1no/0 abs

Julian Barr proposes to appoint Charlotte Brun, Ila de Leon and Alex Korskunsky to serve in this role. Second: Steph Hankinson

Vote: 6y/0n/1abs

Fall meeting schedule

11:30-11:35am

• HR will send out a scheduling survey. Please fill out by end-of-day Friday!  Meeting times will be determined by the poll.

Anything else? Please fill in here or above!

• Fall social events etc?

Cristobal moved to adjourn 11:44am

7/15/2024

9 Members Present

eBoard Members Present: Anna Shaver, Brendan Manley, Cristóbal Borges, Helena Ribeiro, Lyle Crews, Natalie Simmons, Rebecca Yedlin, Rob Earle

Intro

Timekeeper :  Brendan                  Stackwatcher:          Cristóbal                Notes:  Rob

Quorum at 10:08am

• Review, amend, approve agenda Brendan Manley moved to accept. Passed 6-0-0
• Review, amend, approve notes from Jun 17 Brendan Manley moved to accept Passed 7-0-0

Reportbacks

• grievance committee(Julian in absentia) The president read a report by Julian Barr

      - treasury (rebecca) Rebecca Yedlin reported

       - audit committee (lyle) Lyle Crews reported on behalf of the audit committee

- any others?

Negotiations updates (Cristóbal)

Cristóbal Borges reported on behalf of the negotiations team

Eboard Business

• Make sure you have committed in the Office form if you are on deck for summer so you can be paid (link: https://forms.office.com/r/iUSa7iW2NR)
• Proposal to grant Julian neg co-chair stipend for time he has stepped in for Dave? (this would be the negotiations co-chair summer stipend, $2,000) Brendan Manley moved to approve the stipend. Passed 5-0-0
• Helena will be away at a conference July 23 - Aug 1; will not be available for meetings during that time, but will be checking and returning emails that week.

Asynch work through Aug 15

• Convene “calendar task force” to review SCD academic calendar proposal, review other regional academic calendars, create alternative calendars if necessary, and conduct electronic membership vote in Fall to ensure that we have a lot of eyes/brains/input on any calendar changes. Stipend for RAF members is a possibility -- would need proposal by Aug 12th meeting.
• Any other suggestions?
• Cristóbal Borges moved that we put together a group to work on an electronic vote of our membership in response to the SCD academic calendar proposal. Passed 6-0-0

• Cristóbal Borges moved to adjourn. Passed.

6/17/2024

14 Members Present

eBoard Members Present: Anna Shaver, Brendan Manley, Helena Ribeiro, Ila De Leon, Julian Barr, Justina Rompogren, Lyle Crews, Rebecca Yedlin, Steph Hankinson

Intro

Stack:            time:              notes: helena

2- 2:15

Review, amend, and approve agenda Julian Barr moves to accept agenda; Lyle Crews Seconds. 6 y 0n 1a

Review, amend, approve minutes from June 4. Julian Barr moves to accept notes as written; Lyle Crews seconds; 5 yes 0 n 2 abstention

Reportbacks

2:15 - 2:30

• Grievance Committee

• Julian Barr reported for the Grievance Committee

• Treasurer: Budget/Audit Committee

• Lyle Crews reported for Budget committee and audit; Lyle will head Budget Committee; audit due June 30th; Steph volunteers for audit committee. Rebecca Yedlin moves to stipend audit committee members at 10 hours each, to be revisited in july; Julian Barr seconds 7y 0n 0ab;
• Membership meeting: first Fall membership meeting will be Fri Oct 4 (time tbd)

• State-wide COLA effective July 1st, 2024: 5.834%

Negotiations Update

2:30 - 2:45

• Julian Barr reported for Negotiations
• Summer proposal review call. Will keep proposal review times Tues 3:30-5pm
• Summer negotiations sessions: June 28 1-4pm; july 10 1-4pm; aug 16 9am - 1pm

Summer

2:45 - 3pm

• Last meeting, we discussed folks “opting in” to asynchronous work/on call in addition to attending one meeting in july and one meeting in august. Folks would receive their regular officer stipend, with the exception of senate presidents, who would receive regular 2k officer stipend

• Steph Hankinson moves to propose propose that officers may elect (but are not obligated) to continue service over the summer quarter at regular quarterly stipend rate and end service in cadence with the negotiations team on Aug 16
• Friendley amendment Julian Barr: President for Part-time and Senate President stipends will be at the “regular” officer rate of $2,000.
• Friendly amendment accepted. Rebecca Yedlin  second 7y 0n 0a

• Setting Summer meetings -- if mondays: How about July 15th 10am - 12pm  and Aug 12 10am -12pm ? If other dates/times, please propose!

Summer work plan

3pm - 3:15?

• Emeritus review and list by July BOT meeting? BOT = July 11;
• AFT Powerful Locals training this summer -- in Tacoma, July 31-Aug 2: registration link: https://leadernet.aft.org/webform/powerful-locals-2024-leadership-conference-registration

 can anyone join Richard Burton in a meeting tomorrow with Rebecca Saldaña at 4:00 on Zoom? She may be the new Senate Labor Committee Chair. Lyle will meet.

Lyle Crews moves to adjourn at 3:13.

6/3/2024

15 Members Present

eBoard Members Present: Anna Shaver, Cristóbal Borges, Dr Beloved Hunt, Greta Treistman, Helena Ribeiro, Jay McLean-Riggs, Jean Fallow, Julian Barr, Lyle Crews, Rebecca Yedlin, Rob Earle

intro

2-2:15

Notetaker:  Rob Earle    Stackwatcher: Cristóbal Borges     Time Keeper: Jessica Pikul

Quorum reached: 2:02pm

Review, amend and approve agenda

Julian Barr moved to approve. Passed 10-0-0

Review and approve notes from Mon May 20th

Notes amended. Deepa Bhandaru moved to approve. Passed 10-0-0

Report backs and Updates

2:15 - 2:45

• Grievance – Julian Barr reported for the Grievance Committee

• Treasurer - Issues with budget/audit/bookkeeper.
• Deepa Bhandaru moved to authorize the Budget Committee to hire a new bookkeeper. Passed 11-0-0
• Senates? – No report
• Comms – No report
• We are really going to need a Secretary for next year -- we’ll be needing to conduct elections and potentially ratification votes – Helena Ribeiro reported
• Not discussed due to time: Board rep to Nursing program meeting on June 14th

Negotiations Updates

2:45 - 3:15

• Funding for summer
• Proposals left to present
• Hybrid Session this Friday
• Anything else??? Cristóbal Borges reported for the Negotiating Team
• Question from Jean about potential effect of AFT self-employment income on PTers’ unemployment benefits

Thinking about Summer work

• Eboard usually meets once in June and once in July during summer quarter. Officers are stipended for attending. These meeting are optional, but we need a quorum in order to approve stuff.
• Any special summer projects that need funding that will need to be approved the Board should be proposed by next/last meeting of the year, which is on June 17. Eg., Membership and Treasurer working on percaps. (Rebecca has a proposal about this).
•  Summer meeting dates/times? Keep Monday, or Move to Tues?
• Discussion regarding summer work and stipends -- suggestion to pay officers who would like to conduct asynchronous/on-call work over the summer the full officer stipend. Senate Presidents would receive regular officer stipends ($2,000) for Summer work.

Requests etc

• AFT Powerful Locals training this summer -- in Tacoma, July 31-Aug 2
• CTC meeting this saturday 9am-12pm -- monthly statewide AFT local  leadership meeting; would anyone like to attend on our behalf?

• Lyle Crews and Jay McLean-Riggs volunteered to attend

• Request pending from folks in Yakima to discuss local movement

To think about before next  meeting

• Scheduling our 2024-2025 meetings

*Anna Shaver, *Beloved Hunt, *Cristóbal Borges, *Deepa Bhandaru, *Helena Ribeiro, *Jay Mclean-Riggs, *Julian Barr, *Justina Rompogren, *Lyle Crews, *Natalie Simmons, *Rebecca Yedlin, *Steph Hankinson

Intro

2-2:15

Achieve quorum 2:04

; notetaker:    Rob Earle  Stackwatcher: Denise    Timekeeper: Greg Bachar

Review, amend, and approve agenda Julian Barr moved to approve the agenda. Passed 8-0-0

Review and approve notes from May 6 Julian Barr moved to approve the note from the May 6 meeting. Passed 8-0-0

Chair Updates

2:15- 2:45

• Treasurer Rebecca Yedlin reported on the budget process, expects 20204 budget available for approval at July eboard meeting
• Grievance Julian  Barr reported
• Senates Denise Grollmus reported on South

• South: PROF-TECH organizing updates + request for $500 to fund our last few events, including an end of the year BBQ & Payroll updates! Moved by Denise Grollmus. Passed 11-0-0

• District President: union + presidential candidate meetings Helena Ribeiro reported
• Natalie Simmons reported on addressing case of wrongful termination

Negotiations updates

2:45 - 3:15

• Bargaining tracker link
• Proposal Review meetings Tues 3:30-5pm
• CAT Team meeting Wed 3-4pm
• Add member to the Negotiations Team? Cristóbal Borges and Dave Ellenwood reported
• Lyle Crews moved to appoint Julian Barr as acting Negotiating Team member while Dave Ellenwood is on family leave. Passed 10-0-0
• Lyle Crews moved to appoint Julian Barr as permanent alternate negotiations team member. Passed 11-0-0

Fundraising/Endorsement Requests

• Eboard voted electronically to endorse UW student encampment
• Fundraising request for $250 dollars from Washington Fair Trade Coalition
• Discussion of aft convention delegate support Rebecca Yedlin moved to fund five individuals attending AFT National Convention July 21-25

• Start thinking about summer

3:45 - 4

• Usually, we have two eBoard meetings in summer session; one in June and one in July. Officers receive hourly stipends to attend these meetings

• We might want to think about special projects that we might want to do in summer, and to think about how much time/work they would take in order to approve a budget for them.

• For example, calculating and paying per-caps, which are usually conducted by Rebecca and Anna
• We might also want to think about funding a few hours for each chair to reflect on their job duties and write out a “Chair 101” document for future officers which we can formalize in the by-laws (or not) in 2024-2025

Settling in

2- 2:15

Notetaker:  Rob Earle                       weedwacker:r:   Rebecca                Timekeeper: Denise

Review and approve agenda Lyle Crews moved the agenda be approved. Passed 12-0-0

Review and approve minutes Greta Treistman moved the noted from the 4/15 meeting be approved. Passed 12-0-1

Check-in -- need help? challenges?

2:15 - 2:30

Updates and Reportbacks

2:30 - 2:45

• Membership: New membership forms! In Broadstripes! New folder structure in googledocs! Linktree (https://linktr.ee/aftseattle)!  (Anna) Anna Shaver reported
• Comms: upcoming Negotiations Update sign-up (Deepa) Deepa Bhandaru reported
• Some wins for faculty this month: temp fulltime/prorata 100% (helena/julian) Grievance Committee Julina Barr reported
• Treasury Updates: credit card, budget (Rebecca) Rebecca Yedlin reported
• Other chair updates?

Negotiations updates

2:45 - 3:15

Cristóbal Borges and Dave Ellenwood reported.

President Union Interviews -

3:15 - 3:30

• College President Searches

• There are “union interviews” scheduled for all nine candidates. Helena can attend some of them. Please see below for full schedule!
• Proposed format: each union asks two “boilerplate” questions at each meeting, then Q&A the rest of the time

AFT Convention in Houston

• Decision on attending
• Number of delegates to send

• Cristóbal moved to send delegates, Dave and Jay seconded

• Motion passes with 13 yeses, 0 nos, 0 abstentions

3:30 - 3:45

Other businesses

3:45 - 4pm

• Motion to extend meeting until 4:05; second: cristobal. Passed 8-0-0
• Invitation to join HELU (Higher Education Labor United) https://higheredlaborunited.org/join-helu/. Convention is May 17-20 (in nj and online; can join as an org or at-large members) link to email
• Membership meeting Fri May 10 3-5pm
• Endorse 25 mile walk for Gaza (Althea? Or Greta can talk about this)

• Greta made a motion to endorse, Julian seconded
• Motion passed, 10 yes, 0 no, 0 abstain

• Appointing CTC council rep (not discussed due to time)

Date

Time

Candidate

College

Attending

Tues May 7

1-2pm

Lisa Cooper Wilkins

Central

Jay

Wed May 8

1-2pm

Cornelius Johnson

Central

Jay

Thurs May 9 (Dev Day)

1-2pm

Bradley Lane

Central

Jay,

Wed May 15

1-2pm

Monica Brown

South

Thurs May 16

1-2pm

Rigoberto Rincones Gomez

South

Fri May 17(conflict with negotiations?)

1-2pm

Philip King

South

Mon May 20

1-2pm

Naydeen Gonzalez de Jesus

North

Thursday May 23

1-2pm

Rachel Solemsaas

North

Intro

2-2:15

• Notetaker: Rob, Stackwatcher: Jay Timekeeper: Dr. Val
  Review, amend,  and approve agenda Jay McLean-Riggs moved to amend the agenda to put Negotiations report before Report backs. Passed
• Rob Earle moved to approve the agenda. Passed 7-0-0
• Review and approve notes from April 1 Val Hunt moved to approve. Passed 8-0-1

Checkin

2:15 - 2:30

Negotiations updates

2:30 - 3:00 (Dave needs to leave at 3:30)

Reportbacks

3-3:30

• Grievance committee reportback Justina Rompogren reported

• Treasury/Budget Committee: proposal by Rebecca Yedlin: to open a line of credit of 15k with our bank (no fee) and split that into 4 credit cards: one for District use (up to 13,500$); and one with a limit of $500 for each of the senates; seconded by Jay McLean-Riggs. Passed 6-1-0
• President for Part Time
• Senates
• North Happy Hour request

Upcoming Events

• APALA banquet - we’ve got 8 seats; who wants to go (open to membership as well)
• Jayapal Event  April 23rd 1-4pm at Brockey Center at South

Settling in

2-2:10

Notetaker: Robe Earle

Stackwatcher: Cristobal

Timekeeper: Greg Bachar

Review and Approve agenda Rob Earle moved the agenda be approved. Passed 10-0-0

Review and Approve Minutes from Feb 26 and March 18 Cristóbal Borges moved minutes from both meetings be approved. Passed.

Check in

2:10- 2:20

We need a secretary! And a Political Action Chair! And a Central Grievance Co-Chair

Reportbacks

2:20 - 2:45

• Broadstripes setup
• Inaccurate lists from District
• Treasury updates – Rebecca Yedlin reported
• Grievances  – Julian Barr reported
• Emeritus! Will folks from each senate review letters from their campus to ensure the dates etc are correct?

• Dave, Cristóbal, Julian, and Val will help to review Emeritus/a letters; Helena will help coordinate

• Business stuff: Gen Com Liability insurance changing (Helena)

Negotiations updates – Cristóbal Borges reported on the last negotiations session, Dave Ellenwood reported on the plan to meet with CITs over the next couple of weeks.

2:45- 3:15

• PTF breakaway session during Memb. meeting

Discussion re: AFT convention in Texas

3:15 - 3:30

• Request that we consider not attending due to Texas political situations.--Cristóbal

Articulations with Labor

3:30 - 4pm

• Pramila Jayapal event to speak with retirees and members Tuesday April 23 (Richard Burton)

• 1:30 - 4pm event space booked by AFT-Prostaff, “marketing”. Due to congressional district, could be the following places: South Campus, Georgetown, Maritime, Central, North
• Bracci (sp?) center at South

• Organizing 4 Power: starts in May, free, but need crew of 10+ to sign up

• O4P info: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qYfUw1BaT0qcSe5b3zgnfaf4WyIxnybXhzd5buLQawA/edit

• Annual APALA gala: deadlines: April 5th for ad in program, April 15th for tickets (needs proposal)

https://app.sparkmailapp.com/web-share/Vwa_wKOCLIDCT8OABd5tMCe-PBURQvVCKNt26pSj

Cristóbal moved to buy a table and full-page ad for APALA gala. Passed 8-0-0

• AFT/Cornell June 2- 7 in St Paul, Minn registration fee: $450 per local regardless of number of foks
• Aft wa human rights retreat:
  
  Hello AFT Washington Local Presidents,

Together we can build our union and advocate for our co-workers and our community, but we need your participation. Join us on Saturday, April 13th from 10am to 3pm at our AFT Washington Human Rights committee retreat. The retreat will be held in person, at 4719 University Way NE, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98105. We invite and welcome both active members of the committee and potential new members to join us to explore the possibilities of building a stronger, more active Human Rights Committee.

Cristóbal moved that the meeting be adjourned. PAssed.

Register here: https://leadernet.aft.org/webform/human-rights-committee-retreat-april-13-2024-1000-am-300-pm. Please register by Monday, April 9th.

Settling in

10 mins

Stackwatcher: Julian

Notetaker: Rob

Timekeeper: Jay mcLean-Riggs

Review and approve agenda Rob Earle moved to accept the agenda. Passed 7-0-0

Review and approve minutes from March 4th Deepa moved to approve the minutes. Passed 11-0-0

Check-in

10 mins

Reportbacks

30 mins

• Grievance committee – Julian Barr reported
• MOU re: retired faculty Tracy Lai remaining on tenure committees post-retirement (Central) Jay McLean-Riggs reported on the MOU to allow Tracy Lai to remain on Michelle Morado’s tenure committee
• Treasury Rebecca Yedlin shared a proposal to send delegates to AFT National convention in July. Will send a form to gauge interest, book rooms if possible
• Membership
• Comms – Deepa Bhandaru reported.
• Senates
• Part Time President and College Reps
• Professional Issues

Negotiations Ecosystem Julian Barr moved to extend by 10 minutes. Passed 8-0-0

30 mins

• Negotiations!

• Share static urls for sessions, caucus, debriefs

• CITs

• Next steps; “closing date”
• Review proposals, faculty forums
• Proposal for 5 new CITs -- Jay moved to approve 10 hours for funding for 5 new CITs: Passed 8-0-1
• •  Trans/non-binary CIT
• • Professional development CIT
• • Proposal for 2 new CITs (different ones JAY)
• •Non-instructional/”work creep” CIT
• • WorkForce CIT
• • Appendix H/SCIE

• CAT team

Negotiations trainings: AFT/Cornell June 2-7th ; Organizing for Power (below)

Proposals

10 mins

• AFT NTL Convention - Houston (Rebecca)
• We get 5 voting delegates by membership;

Emeritus

5 mins

process /working group?/deadline

Labor Community:

10 mins

• Not discussed due to time
  
  Annual APALA gala: deadlines: April 5th for ad in program, April 15th for tickets

https://app.sparkmailapp.com/web-share/Vwa_wKOCLIDCT8OABd5tMCe-PBURQvVCKNt26pSj

• Request for AFT endorsement and contingent for Labor for Palestine March (March 30th)
• Labor Chorus concert: https://app.sparkmailapp.com/web-share/5X27tW5dlMN1ts4dBx8CpA7hgV7mZSYi9wPUYANy
• Organizing for Power Core Fundamentals -- need team of 10+, free, 6 weeks starting Tues May 7: https://app.sparkmailapp.com/web-share/tHNDanbcLZNmCbIRxz0uDLuKnx6fHveSxNYKcwAY

• O4P info: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qYfUw1BaT0qcSe5b3zgnfaf4WyIxnybXhzd5buLQawA/edit
• Interested:

Deepa Moved to adjourn. Passed.

Notetaker:     Rob                 Stackwatcher:     Cristóbal                 Timekeeper:

• Review and approve agenda Cristóbal moved to accept agenda. Passed 9-0-0
• Review and approve minutes from Feb 26 Deferred until next week

10 mins

Eboard Check-in

10 mins

Reportbacks

20 mins

• Grievance Committee Julian Barr reported. A grievance co-chair is needed for Central.
• CAT Team Deepa Bhandaru reported
• CITs
• Treasury/Budget Committee updates
• Negotiations Team Dave Ellenwood announced appointments at Notetakers and Researchers for the bargaining sessions [names?:     ] and on modality discussion for contract negotiations. Cristóbal Borges reported on the strategy for the opening of bargaining session

Budget Committee Proposals

10 mins

• Stipend for Nathan Ormsby, AFT member, to serve on Budget committee (including work up to now and work in the future $80/hr for previous and up to 10 hours in Spring qtr, subject to review after spring quarter. Rebecca Yedlin moved. Passed 10-0-0
• Credit Card proposal and guidelines/parameters Cristóbal Borges moved to table Passed 9-0-1
• Cristóbal Borges moved that we explore getting a credit card and parameters for usage and paying it off. Passed 10-0-0
• Senate budget cards/etc
• Proposal to extend 2024 budget deadline Rebecaa Yedlin moved to extend deadline until beginning of Spring Quarter Passed 10-0-0

CIT proposals (timesheets, budget, etc)

15 mins

Discussion on how to pay folks working in CITs and negotiations teamDeepa moved to extend the meeting until 4:15.Passed:

Deepa moved to pay the notetakers and researchers the district officers quarterly pay ($2000), plus a pro-rated rate ($400) for Winter quarter. Passed 10-1-0

Israel-Palestine Working Group Motion

15 mins

• Time sensitive: endorsing “uncommitted” for democratic primary ballot, & pushing AFT Washington to do the same AFT 1789 endorses the movement to vote “Uncommitted” in the upcoming Wash. state presidential primary Passed 9-1-1
• Deepa moved that our 1789 local president reaches out to AFT Washington that we  has passed this resolution and encourages AFT Wash. to do the same Passed 7-0-2

Announcements, calls, etc

10 mins

• Negotiations training with AFT National tomorrow 1-4pm zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/99491703035?pwd=aVZnUzArQkxDYWNGSGtWWW1saTgyUT09
• Schedule meeting with Dmitri to discuss CIT questions
• AFT National Convention: July 22-25, Houston, TX
• Emeritus Faculty for 2023-2024 year -- please review letters by next meeting
• Membership meeting this friday 3-5pm
• Deepa moved to adjourn.

Intro

2 - 2:15

Stackwatcher: Jay; Notetaker: Beloved Dr Val Hunt; Timekeeper: Cristobal, Dave

Review and approve agenda: motion to approve, Jay McLean Riggs, Seconded: Rebecca Yedlin approved 10-0-0

Review and approve notes from Feb 5th motion: cristobal borges, second: steph 11-0-0

Checkin

V. Hunt inquired about getting E-board officers getting access to rank and file email by way of Hr. Helena has already followed up on the inquiry to J. Dixon/HR.

H. Ribeiro checked regarding discrepancies in faculty lists for each division/program across colleges. Anna Shaver’s analysis of HR provided information of faculty rolls showed a significant discrepancy or overcount of actual numbers of faculty employed at the colleges.  Helena R:  “They say 1,300, we say 750.”

2:15- 2:30

Reportbacks

2:30 - 3pm

• Negotiations (10-15 mins); proposal re: researcher, notetakers positions; proposal re: stipend hours etc.
• Cristobal B: “3 Items for reportback  1: sent out message to Dixon and Chancellor that membership voted to not meet and greet. March 8th 1pm-2pm for first meeting. Waiting to hear back. 2: CIT gathered on Friday Feb   identify problems and possible solutions. Six CITs are slated to go:  Salary Wages, Comp; FDIC; Modalities; PHL; Counseling; xx {will get rest of CITs from chat in Zoom session or from Helena}

3: Completing negotiations team members for the March 8th session”.  E-Board deliberated and decided upon the following: Two leads and one alternate.  We have received 9 applicants for the positions.  We will need to determine by vote: two folks for each role and then have additional folks who will then rotate in as needed (i.e. alternates). Applicants with the most votes will be offered the roles in each category. Vote will be administered via an electronic form. Deepa B. seconded:  VOTE: 12 yeah 0 nay 0 abstention

Applicants: Notetaker applicants: Rachel Kolman, Bellamy Jacobs, Charlotte Brun, Kris Lysaker, Morgan Owens, and Jean Fallow  Researcher applicants: Mei'lani Eyre, Helena Ribeiro, and Corey Fike

• Dave E and Cristobal B.: propose an eboard formal vote–vote for each two top positions, then bring on two people for each position and have one backup for each position.  
• Jay M-C and Deepa B.: need to articulate the criteria for roles/position. Jay M-c: Criteria are specific to the needed skillset for the roles: i.e. researcher and notetaker. Julian B.: not sure if we can build a set of criteria that would be fair given educators are globally relatively adept at research and notetaking skills so it would be difficult to assess our members’ skills.
• Dave E. tabled proposal. V. Hunt proposed extending the conversation for five minutes 2:59pm. VOTE: 10 yea 0 nay (xxx abstention ask Helena)
• Jay M-C It would be positive to have an E-Board member on the negotiations team. Cristobal B. reminded us that our membership worked on developing values that we will be adhering to all of us–throughout the negotiations.
• Dave E. good opportunity to bring in new perspectives.
• Grievance Committee (10 mins)  Julian B. updates for each college:
• North: finalizing some concerns.
• South: Ceramics Studio, although denied; safety concerns were addressed in ways that allow for moving forward.  Successful enforcement at New Holly.
• Central: nothing to report as of now
• District: Union has not No PHL from HR since 2022. The Grievance Committee will submit a grievance if not followed through. Julian will request this per CBA as well as for all of the quarters we have not received since 2022.
• Helena R. re: PHL status not being determined in timely and accurately. At this time,  
• Treasury updates -- 1099 updates/etc Emailed out 1099s were mailed out. For any who did not get 1099, means we did not get a W4 form from you. Anyone who made more than $600 needed to file.  Rebecca Y. requested persons who purchased items for retreat to provide reimbursement forms. .
• Lobby Day?: Cristobal B.:

• —Lobby was great and fun! Met up with both my reps and staff for my senator. All were very supportive of more funding for CTCs and support for AFT backed initiatives.
• —One key takeaway for me is that both representatives I spoke with were very interested in visiting our colleges. If we do an AFT Seattle invite to our representatives for an “issues discussion” we may get them to come out, speak directly with us, and freak out admin!

• Membership meeting reportback? Future dates set for monthly membership meetings: Fri 3/8 3-5pm; Fri 4/12 3-5pm;  Fri 5/10 3-5pm; Fri 6/14 3-5pm

Proposals (time-sensitive)

3pm - 4pm

• Swag division/costs/etc (Jay)Shared swag two proposals 1: WFSE has not provided update re: what they’d like to have so we will go with their original ask of  ¼ and AFT will take 1/2  will colleges take equal share or proportionate to memberships  Proposal 2: Cost:  All of the swag is free OR Nominal charge for sweatshirts and other higher priced swag (partially free option). OR nominal fee for all swag
• Julian proposed and Steph H. seconded Option 1 as written in chat.  11yes 1 no 0 abstentions
• Jay M-C proposed Julian B seconded Divide  swag roughly equally with any overage to go to Central  11yea 0 no 0 abstention (doublecheck with Helena re: abstention)  
• Steph proposed vhunt second extend meeting to 4:15pm VOTE  8 yes 2 no 1 abstention.
• CITs funding proposal
• Academic Calendar/PD Day business (details below; perhaps an academic calendar CIT could be useful?) Helena walked us through the concerns  identified by management regarding the impact of Juneteenth as federal holiday on instructional days for AY2025 (spring), [note: Juneteenth was approved as federal holiday after CBA ratified in 2020 check date]. After some discussion, we determined we need to have membership to tell us what they would like to see regarding professional development day, and other academic calendar decisions. We will relay this to management.    
• Emeritus Letters (asynchronous review and approval; AFT will announce final list ofEmeritus Faculty at March 4th meeting
• Dr Beloved proped we take Helena’s proposal see below: ro
• Helena R. in CBA there is a role for determining emeritus faculty status.  Based on timeline, how long they served, or posthumously offered. Helena R. received information from three colleges. Helena offered following suggestion:  that we review letters in TEAMS system asynchronously by next E-Board meeting. We will then celebrate our emeritus faculty on March e-board meeting. vote: 11/0/0)

Deliberation on CIT funding proposal

Each CIT would have ten hours assigned ($80/hour for the 6 groups)  This is separate from the monies provided and approved for the coordinators.  Deepa B. noted that we funded four CITs in our first proposal.

(10 hours of work for each CIT to be distributed per their discretion).  

Jay M-C: we want to not institute work creep on our members whether

Julian B; seems that E-Board members are already receiving funds and this would be double dipping for doing work in CIT. Also may be an equity concern

Cristobal B: not incentivizing over-work. We continually incentivized when we institute stipended working. This is reason for capping the work at 10 hours.

Second Amendment CB proposal/JB second:  10 hours stipend work to be distributed to CIT to anyone who is not an E-Board members distribution at discretion of CIT.

VOTE:  8 yea /0 no /2 abstention

Hello, Helena.  I hope this email finds you well.

The district team in charge of publishing the campus calendar asked me to pass this information on to you.  In the past, AFT would give the district the Faculty PD dates.  For your reference, here are dates for the past five years.

Please let us know what dates you wish for Faculty PD for 2024-2025.  If you can let us know soon, we very much appreciate it.

Thank you,

Sayumi

Additional information:

Spring quarter end date - Spring quarter is meant to end on a Friday and have 54 instructional days.

Deans of Enrollment suggested that we should have Monday, June 23, 2025 be Spring quarter end date.

This is inconsistent with the CBA because the Juneteenth holiday affected number of instructional days and was established as a federal holiday after the CBA was accepted (page 101).

Ending on 6/23/25 will ensure 54 instructional days but ends on a Monday, instead of the prescribed Friday that exists in the CBA language (Appendix C, Page 101 in attachment).

5 mins

• Timekeeper:
• Notetaker: Rob Earle
• Stackwatcher: Cat Cabral
• Review and approve agenda
• Greta Treistman moved to accept the agenda. Approved 12-0-0
• Review and approve notes
• Rob Earle moved to accept the minutes. Approved 13-0-0

EBoard Check-in

30 mins

Reportbacks

15 mins

• Grievance Committee
• Julian Barr reported on current activity of the Grievance Committee
• CAT reportback
• Swag update (jay) (not discussed due to time; moved to next meeting)