Meredith Farkas

Could not have picked anyone better!!!! Love that man!

Solidarity with @pccffap.bsky.social! Per OPB this is the first strike to occur among any of the state’s 17 community colleges. Even a HECC commissioner on the Sylvania strike line! Strike fund: https://www.pccstrike.com/community-support

Solidarity with @pccffap.bsky.social! Per OPB this is the first strike to occur among any of the state’s 17 community colleges. Even a HECC commissioner on the Sylvania strike line! Strike fund: https://www.pccstrike.com/community-support

Solidarity with @pccffap.bsky.social! Per OPB this is the first strike to occur among any of the state’s 17 community colleges. Even a HECC commissioner on the Sylvania strike line! Strike fund: https://www.pccstrike.com/community-support

Solidarity with @pccffap.bsky.social! Per OPB this is the first strike to occur among any of the state’s 17 community colleges. Even a HECC commissioner on the Sylvania strike line! Strike fund: https://www.pccstrike.com/community-support

Solidarity with @pccffap.bsky.social! Per OPB this is the first strike to occur among any of the state’s 17 community colleges.

Even a HECC commissioner and lots of community solidarity on the massive Sylvania strike line!

Strike fund: www.pccstrike.com/community-su...

Good faith? I observed many bargaining sessions prior to them going into mediation and "good faith" is not the phrase I would use to describe the tactics of the college's bargaining team. So much belittling behavior. So many times they showed up not having any response to proposals from last time. 😡

Portland Community College Employees Go on Strike Joanna Hou

The strikes from two of Portland Community College’s largest unions are the first community college strikes in Oregon history.

I rush ordered some new waterproof ski gloves and some hot hands for tomorrow! By the end, I couldn't even use my hands enough to grip my phone!!!

Had an amazing and time picketing in the pouring rain. It's amazing to see all the people who really make PCC run -- staff, faculty, & academic professionals from all over the college -- standing together in solidarity! The vibe was super positive, in spite of losing feeling in our hands & feet! 🥶

If you want to support our strike, donate to the strike fund or (if you're in the area) come picket with us! www.pccstrike.com/community-su...

I spent 4 months trying to answer a simple question: has this book been translated into my language?
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Our bargaining team bargained tirelessly until midnight, but couldn't secure a fair deal. They won't even give us the COLA the president gave herself this year (2.5%). Even in the face of good news from the state re: funding! It's demoralizing. So grateful to be part of a strong union!! ✊

This thread from the amazing Michelle DuBarry goes a long way to explaining a lot of the issues. Like many higher ed institutions, PCC is becoming more corporate, more top-heavy, more reliant on consultants, and less reliant on the wisdom/insights of faculty/staff. bsky.app/profile/duba...

At 10:30 this morning, faculty, academic professionals, and classified staff at Portland Community College will be on strike. The President preemptively closed campuses to keep students off the picket line and reduce the visible impact of a walkout. I'll be on the picket line today! ✊

PCC employees ‘pushing back,’ hold march for better wages ahead of possible strike PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — An ocean of blue t-shirts was seen during a march in downtown Portland Saturday afternoon as hundreds of Portland Community College employees and their supporters demanded b…

An ocean of blue t-shirts was seen during a march in downtown Portland as PCC employees demand better wages ahead of possible strike. https://www.koin.com/news/education/pcc-employees-pushing-back-hold-march-for-better-wages-ahead-of-possible-strike/?cid=bluesky_ 

The Healthcare Without Fear Act passed both chambers and is now on Governor Kotek's desk, where she is expected to sign it. SB1570 holds federal agents accountable to the same standards as state and local law enforcement, keeping hospitals places healing and trust; not fear or intimidation.

Agreed. The feeling of being in solidarity with our colleagues that way is priceless. And the weather certainly could not have been better!

I'm just grateful to have a kid who cares about the world beyond what is right in front of him and doesn't see people who live somewhere different and look different from him as "other." Model UN is an amazing program for young people.

I can't believe my kid is going to the national Model UN conference in New York this week at this moment in history. They'll be visiting the UN! Kamala Harris is their keynote! My son is representing Lebanon at the conference on the issue of peacekeeping troops! Can't imagine what it'll be like.

The insulting way they treat the bargaining team, the derisive tone of emails in response to faculty and staff complaints, the uninclusive way they've gone about implementing "shared governance" here, their inability to apologize for real harm they caused... it all shows a complete lack of respect.

That's not to say that the money doesn't matter (a 0.5% COLA is deeply offensive), but the harm the college has caused faculty, APs, and staff goes way beyond our pay. There's a total lack of respect, honesty, transparency. They can't even own the material harms the Workday transition has caused!

And I don't even think it's just about the money. I don't know if people would have come together with this much solidarity if the administration hadn't done so much to harm students (with class cancellations), to harm workers (the workday transition, cutting programs), and to diminish our voices.

People really showed up yesterday to our rally and march for PCCFFAP and PCCFCE! It felt so powerful to march across the Hawthorne bridge on a rare sunny day in March with my union siblings, all sharing a common goal. Workers are so fed up wtih PCC administrators and are so ready to strike.

We’re at the Federation of Faculty and Academic Professionals and the Federation of Classified Employees strike rally today!

Hey Portland Community College, stop disrespecting your workers and undermining public education!

losing newsrooms that can do this is bad

B, but I probably get there 10-15 minutes early (just in case there's traffic) and sit in my car. I live in Oregon, but grew up all over the East Coast.

Ugh, not just the tone, but I really question that discussions should ever be recorded and widely shared. Can you really create a safe space for an authentic conversation under those conditions?

Manager at Associated Press Tells Journalists That Resistance to AI Is Futile A senior manager at the Associated Press enthused about AI to rank and file journalists, who were not amused.

Sounds like someone has a bad case of the Borg Complex.

100,000 Homes: Housing the homeless saves money? Giving apartments to the chronically homeless can save taxpayer dollars, advocates say

Anderson Cooper: “So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?”

Answer: “Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing.” #HousingFirst #UrbanTruth

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