Financial Emergency Questions and Answers
There have been a number of questions about the potential action by the State Board for Community and Technical College’s (SBCTC) to declare a financial emergency. The following is an attempt to answer some of the questions that you may have, and hopefully to bring some clarity to what impact this has on your contract and what this means for you as faculty.
In this day and age, people look to the Web for information. As a result, organizations almost always need to have a website to compliment their communications. Unfortunately, not everyone has the expertise or time to maintain a local web site.
For this reason, AFT hosts free web sites to affiliated locals. To take advantage of this benefit, contact Sylvia Watson, AFT Washington Communications Coordinator, at 206-432-8084 or swatson@aftwa.org. Sylvia can help get your site set up and even provide hands-on training.
The following link will connect you to information about our legal assistance program.
AFT LeaderNet is a secure, registration-based Web site and is full of valuable resources and tools for affiliate leaders, staff and activists.
The most-up-to-date local bargaining agreements can be found here. The contract years which are covered are specified with each.
Still to come, K-12 classified contracts.
Employee information is essential to your ability to effectively represent the bargaining unit members of your local, but unfortunately, many locals have no information, partial information or disorganized information. Having this information at your fingertips also means that communications about union meetings, events and opportunities will be easy to provide and that outreach to bargaining unit members who haven’t yet joined the union can occur on a regular basis.