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(http://dept.sccd.ctc.edu/sccft/index.html): The Washington Federation of Teachers has asked the Governor of Washington to declare October 29, 2001 Part-Time Recognition Day. On that day the state federation will be sponsoring a recognition event, "Marching Towards Equity: A Progress Report." They will recognize two outstanding legislators, Representative Phyllis Kenney and Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles, who have led the legislative battles for salary increases and more fringe benefits for Associate Faculty. As chairs of the Senate and House Higher Education Committees in Washington, they have offered a great deal of progressive legislation. Activists will also issue an assessment of how well part-time faculty are doing state wide and give report cards to each of the community colleges, assessing progress towards full wage and benefit equity. Districts will be evaluated on key areas such as average salary, part- to full-time faculty ratios, and percentage of part-time faculty who have health and retirement benefits. Those campuses with high GPA‚s will also receive awards at the event. Local activists will also be recognized with, among other things, an honor roll on our website. During the years of activism, many WFT members have volunteered countless hours to lobby the legislature, make calls, send letters, and contact fellow faculty with information. Many of the community colleges will be holding events on campuses during that week, including Seattle, Shoreline, and Edmonds. Other campuses will be holding part-time membership/activation drives to encourage part-time faculty to join and become more active in their local unions. We are also using our website <http://www.wftaft.com/> to put up resolutions and other materials for locals to use. They can be found under the "CampusEquity Week" link. In addition, many of our locals are using CEW to do a membership drive among the part-time faculty. Since we have been making gains for them, we are hoping more of them will join their local unions. Edmonds Community College Federation of Teachers: Edmonds has been putting out weekly email "SoundBytes" with facts about part-time use in higher ed to build up interest in CEW. The union will be sponsoring a letter writing campaign to Governor Locke asking him to continue to support equal pay and benefits for equal work for part-time faculty. Edmond’s Board of Trustees has endorsed a resolution supporting CEW taken to it by the union. An article was published in the union’s newletter. Everett Community College Federation of Teachers: Everett’s Board of Trustees has endorsed a resolution supporting CEW taken to it by the union. The union will place a full page ad in the student newspaper announcing CEW and giving facts about part-time faculty. Everett will hold a membership drive among part-time faculty that week. Shoreline Community College Federation of Teachers (http://www.sccft.org/): Shoreline's events are still being planned. Olympic College, Bremerton: Our campus has the good fortune of having received a CEW grant from the National Education Association, which we applied for thanks to having heard about it from the CEW Steering Committee coordinator for the Northwest, Sandra Schroeder, with support from Terry Fitzpatrick, the state president of the NEA-affiliated Association for Higher Education (WEA-HE). Five things are listed below: (1) A free Campus Equity Week Concert on Friday evening, Oct 26, 2001 (the Friday immediately before CEW begins) which, in addition to a music performed by a group called "Acoustic News," will feature several speakers who will briefly touch on the idea of Equal Pay for Equal Work. A promotional flier (Concert Flier) is available for download. Speakers will include (i) the president of our faculty union, the NEA-affiliated Association for Higher Education, who happens to be a former part-timer; (ii) a representative from the union of campus staff, the "Washington Public Employees Association" (iii) a representative from our area's Central Labor Council (iv) a director of the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (We had invited three local legislators as well as our new college president, all of whom said they were unable to attend. We are delighted to have this involvement, especially from our state board.) (Jack Longmate also plans to speak on the history of part-time employment at the community college, citing its origins as the demand for instructors that exceeded the supply in the 1950's, the fact that supply caught up by the late 1960's but the practice of employing part-timers did not recede but has greatly expand from the 1970's until the present, as colleges have become increasingly market driven. He will cite the California's 1988 AB 1725, which stipulated the ratio of full-time to part-time faculty shall be 75 to 25 percent but due to the flexibility of the bill that allowed for discretionary use of funds at the campus level, that ratio has never been realized as administrations have always found other what they consider more pressing campus needs, which is why Campus Equity Week is important: to underscore the blatant violation of the principle of Equal Pay for Equal Work) The daily newspaper, the campus's student newspaper, as well as the several local weekly newspapers have been contacted about the concert and CEW. Thanks to volunteers from our campus, the event will be videotaped and will be aired on our local public access cable channel. (2) Part-time faculty, along with help of our campus's student government, plan on distributing an Equal Pay for Equal Work Petition (download Petition) around campus and the community, based on the AAUP wording: "compensation for part-time employment should be the corresponding fraction for a full-time position having qualitatively similar responsibilities and qualifications." (3) We hope to post fliers around campus to promote CEW (sample to download Flyer). (4) We have routed a suggested resolution of endorsement of CEW (Download Resolution), and plan to make wider distribution to local governmental organizations. (5) At the upcoming meeting of the Board of Trustees, we will be introducing CEW and will invite board members and the administration to the concert and sign the petition. Contacts:
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