@pccffap
Portland Community College Federation of Faculty and Academic Professionals is Local 2277 of the American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO. We represent both full time and part-time faculty as well as academic professionals at PCC.
As someone with disabilities who just had skin cancer surgery earlier in the week, picketing during the first three days of this strike has been beyond exhausting... and I wouldn't have missed it for a second! I love my @PCCFFAP and PCCFCE union siblings so much. Solidarity is everything!
OR Senator Khanh Pham stands with striking PCC union members on a picket line. Picket signs read "On Strike for Fair Pay"
Portland City Councilor Mitch Green stands with PCC workers on a picket line. Picket signs read "PCC deserves Petter" "Dude where's our COLA" and "Fair Contract NOW!"
Shout out to @senkhanhpham.bsky.social and @councilorgreen.bsky.social for supporting PCC workers on the picket lines this morning. We're holding it down on Day 3! #PCCstrike #WeFixPCC
PCC Admin fought hard against open bargaining. They wanted all mediation to be confidential. They didn't want to be interviewed on camera for this piece.
Corporate-style comms and glossy PR is not leadership.
I've worked at PCC for 17 years, served in union leadership for 10 of those, and this is my fourth time serving on my union (@pccffap.bsky.social) 's bargaining team. I love PCC and I love my colleagues, and I want to share a little bit about why we are preparing to go on strike next week.
Thanks @wweek.com and @joannah11.bsky.social for covering my union's potentially history-making strike. We do not wish to be a test case for SB 916, but it's nice to know that our members will have access to unemployment benefits if this drags on a few weeks
If the strikes drag on, PCC could be a case study for whether unemployment benefits strengthen the determination of employees to hold out for a better deal.
💥📢Stand with Strike-ready PCC workers this Saturday!
🪧And sign up for a picket shift! Bring your friends and family! forms.gle/BPb1GNbRFqW9...
Blue flyer with image of a raised fist and logos for PCCFFAP and PCCFCE. Strike Ready! Rally & March. Saturday March 7th. 11:30a.m Sign Making at PCC Climb Center (Optional) 1-1:30pm Rally at Terry Schrunk Plaza 1:30pm march across Hawthorne Bridge (.8 miles) Wear your union blue. Bring Family and Friends
Portland! We hope you will join us this weekend to rally and march for PCC workers fighting for fair wages and benefits. ✊💙
Blue flyer with image of a raised fist and logos for PCCFFAP and PCCFCE. Strike Ready! Rally & March. Saturday March 7th. 11:30a.m Sign Making at PCC Climb Center (Optional) 1-1:30pm Rally at Terry Schrunk Plaza 1:30pm march across Hawthorne Bridge (.8 miles) Wear your union blue. Bring Family and Friends
Portlanders, did you know that both unions at PCC have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike? If you love PCC and want to protect it please join us this Saturday for a public rally and march. @pccffap.bsky.social
“All seven potential strikes, if employers continue to refuse to avert them, would occur in either March or April, in what would be one of the largest education union "strikewaves" in U.S. history 🔥🔥🔥
Graphic which says 94% of FCE voted YES with 90% members voting, and 94% of FFAP voted YES with 85% members voting.
In a historic action, both federations at PCC have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike!
This does not mean a strike begins now, but that our unions are organized and ready to fight for a fair contract.
#solidarityforever #wefixpcc
Excellent article in the NW Labor Press on FFAP and FCE contract negotiations and our collective action!
Our strike authorization vote closes at 5pm tonight! We are so grateful to students and community members who have shown up to demand a fair contract for PCC workers.
CC Organizing Officer David Shultis testifies in front of a packed audience at the PCC Board of Directors Meeting. FFAP members stand beside him holding a large banner with the heading “Strike Pledge” and smaller print with the 783 names of people who have signed in support.
ICYMI there were some fireworks at the PCC Board Meeting last night. The testimony from students and workers was so powerful. We presented a strike pledge signed by 783 of our members. A faculty member announced a recall petition for Board Chair Tiffani Penson.
Today we are launching our 1st ever strike authorization vote 🔥✊
This morning the PCC President announced 2 layoffs of exec/management level staff in her office. Each will receive 6 months severance.
Makes you wonder if they moved up the timeline to influence strike vote. Are they panicking? 🤔
Today union leaders from 5 OR community college locals met to coordinate possible strikes in the near future. Solidarity with LCC Educators Association, PSU Faculty Association, PCC Federation of Classified Employees, Classified Association of COCC, staff from OEA and AFT OR & our PCCFFAP leadership
Administrative bloat alienates college leaders from students and faculty. They can live in a fantasy world where they are successful and good at their jobs, detatched from the consequences of their actions. Our students deserve so much better. /fin
PCC Admin might present this “Self-Study” process as a win, but it has led to a severe blow to our college’s reputation, a rift between administration and educators, an Unfair Labor Practice charge against PCC , and very real negative impacts to our students. 8/
Faculty provided industry-specific data on student and graduate success, as well as pointing out several mistakes with the administration’s “data.” The process led to the closure of popular and successful programs at PCC. 7/
The process has been far from “radically transparent.” It placed an undue burden on faculty and program staff to justify their right to exist. It was pushed onto faculty with little time and no support. Many faculty members worked beyond their contracted hours to oblige this process. 6/
"We are a team of PCC faculty members, academic professionals, and union representatives who served on an impact bargaining team to challenge the results of the very same “data-informed” process our administrators presented at OCCA today. 5/
They presented this process as “radically transparent” and “data-driven" - a truly shocking claim. If they presented this to their own employees, they would have been laughed and booed off the stage.
We sent an open letter sent to the OCCA leadership. Excerpts below 4/
Last week PCC administrators presented at the Oregon Community College Association annual conference. Their presentation (“Through the Data-informed Looking Glass: Rethinking Academic Program Sustainability”) was about their 2024-25 “Self-Study” process 3/
Members often wonder, what do these administrators do all day? Well, one thing they do is go to conferences and give presentations about what a great job they're doing 2/
🧵 about ADMINISTRATIVE BLOAT 👎
The number of managers at PCC has increased by 29% since 2019. During this time, morale has tanked. Our 2024 member survey showed that 9% of FFAP members trust administrators to make decisions that are in the best interest of students. 1/
Since 2019, enrollment has declined by 19% but management FTE has increased 29%
Last year, 43% of new hires at PCC were managers, administrators, or confidential employees.
Cutting programs = fewer students/less revenue.
This headline should be "PCC has a spending problem"
The PCCFFAP (Portland Community College Federation of Faculty and Academic Professionals) seeks a Lead Organizer, Solidarity and Political Action to be based in Portland, OR. Details can be found at: unionjobs.com/listing.php?... #1u #UnionStrong @pccffap.bsky.social @aft.org
PCC seems to be following the DOGE playbook of manufacturing a crisis and then making decisions without regard to contracts. "Move fast break things" isn't going to fly for our union. We intend to enforce the contract.
