Uniteforafuture

Endorsements

Ira Erbs, CIS PT Faculty at Sylvania, AFT-Oregon VP of Political Action

Michele Marden, Math FT Faculty at Sylvania, FFAP Treasurer

Nick Hengen Fox, Comp/Lit FT Faculty at Cascade, FFAP Organizing Committee Co-Chair

Kathleen Janicki, Business FT Faculty at Cascade, FFAP Oversight & Bylaws Officer

Davida Jordan, ESOL PT Faculty at Southeast, FFAP Campus Rep

Dan Davis, ESOL FDC at Rock Creek, FFAP Campus Rep

Allison Gross, Comp/Lit FT Faculty at Sylvania, former FFAP Grievance Officer

Davina Ramirez, ESOL SAC co-chair at Southeast, former FFAP Grievance Officer

Peter Seaman, Online Learning AP at Sylvania & former FFAP Grievance Officer

Sara Robertson, FT Librarian at Rock Creek, former FFAP Organizing Officer

Marianne Tanner, PT Librarian at Cascade

Leslie Rivera, ESOL PT Faculty at Rock Creek

Mitch Green, Economics PT Faculty at Cascade

Erik Johnsen, History PT Faculty at Rock Creek

Aimee Krouskop, Sociology PT Faculty at Rock Creek

Nico Judd, Queer Resource Center Coordinator at Southeast

Roberta Richards, Reference Librarian at Southeast

Terri Barnes, History FT Faculty at Rock Creek

Hannah Love, Philosophy FT Faculty at Rock Creek

Kandace Kling, Math FT Faculty & FDC at Sylvania

Amy Cakebread, Math FT Faculty & FDC at Rock Creek

Ralf Youtz, Math FT Faculty at Sylvania

Andrea Lowgren, History FT Faculty at Cascade

Laura Sanders, Composition PT Faculty at Sylvania

Adrian Rodriguez, College Success at Southeast

Tiff Hayes, International Student Life Coordinator at Rock Creek

Israel Pastrana, History FT Faculty at Rock Creek

Nancy Hinshaw, ESOL PT Faculty at Rock Creek

Gale Czerski, PT Adult Education at SE & Literacy Tutoring Coordinating at SE & CA

Taryn Oakley, PT ESR Faculty & CBL Faculty Coordinator at Cascade

Luciana Diniz, ESOL FT FDC at Sylvania & Cascade

Charma Boeschen, Spanish FT Faculty at Cascade

Jan Underwood, Spanish FT Faculty at Cascade

Liz Rodrigues, Biology FT FDC at Southeast

Kim Neuburger, Math FT Faculty at Sylvania

Our Vision

Unite for a Future brings together a slate of candidates who share a common vision for change.

Across the college we see challenging conditions: Management is becoming bloated and heavy-handed, distracted by their organizational charts rather than attentive to the welfare of students and staff. Enrollment is falling, administration is penny-pinching, staff are left out of key decision-making, and students are left with growing debts. On top of the crises in our own institution, our society is reeling from decades of corporate greed, widespread injustice and an unraveling climate.

But we can turn this ship around. It's time to be bold and get organized. Educators around the country are defending our profession from privatization, alienation, and incompetence at the very top. We need to use every tool available to us – including the threat of a strike – to put the "community" back in community college.

Vote for our slate! Check your email for your ballots, May 2022.

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Vote For Change!

Laura Wadlin for President!

I am running for President of our Federation because we need a bold new vision to get big wins for our coworkers and our students!

Many of the promising changes you’ve seen in FFAP over the past two years have been a result of my presence in leadership, including more proactive contract enforcement, much needed educational events, department-level organizing to push back on management overreach, and college-wide campaigns to demand COVID relief like the $800 connectivity stipend and 14 days of paid time off. We need much, much more – and leaders who will pave the way to get it.

Now is the time to get serious about confronting our problems at PCC: falling enrollment, precarious employment, astronomical workloads, and unsafe conditions on campus… just to name a few. Administration’s approach? Empty rhetoric on equity, heavy-handed management practices, and a botched reorganization. We can no longer rely on good relationships with administration to solve our problems. It’s up to us – through thoughtful strategizing and courageous collective actions – to save quality education and create good careers at PCC.

Contract bargaining begins next year, and that is an enormous opportunity we can’t squander. As President of FFAP, I will lead the strongest contract campaign in this union’s history. We will participate together in essential trainings on organizing basics and our legal rights. We will select a bargaining team that won’t put up with management’s nonsense and will faithfully represent the diverse sections of our membership. We will take every opportunity to fight back on issues that unite us and in the process build our confidence, skills, and solidarity. We will prepare to go all the way: to go on strike and remind administration who really makes this college run.

Together, we have power!

Hollie Oakes-Miller for Secretary

We are in a time of escalating crises and it is not enough to be aware of the large challenges we face, we must also actively fight for a better world for all. I believe that organizing people is critical to building power. History shows us that union members who organize their co-workers and who work in coalition with other unions and community groups are powerful agents of systemic change in workplaces and communities.

I believe I am the right leader to help transform our union into a local focused on bottom-up organizing, developing member-leaders who will enable us to win our demands, and building coalitions that can win the societal changes we need to meet multiple intersecting crises.

I am an Earth and environmental science educator, proud rank-and-file member-leader, community organizer, and with your help, the next Secretary of PCCFFAP. I bring to this role decades of experience in academia, and over 7 years as a bottom-up organizer, coalition builder, and founder of a non-profit that aims to grow a movement to build the power needed to win on issues important to all working people and their families.

During my tenure with FFAP I have brought on new member-leaders and organized to win COVID-related paid leave and internet stipends for all faculty, academic professionals, and staff. I currently serve on the:

Executive Council as the PT Faculty Representative for Sylvania Campus
Organizing Committee
Political and Legislative Action Committee
PT Bargaining Advisory Council

I believe that growing union membership and developing new rank-and-file member-leaders is critical to build the power necessary to win demands that will transform our workplaces and allow us to build communities and systems that work for everyone. If you are ready to fight for a better future, vote for me for Secretary of PCCFFAP.

Ben Cushing for Organizing Officer

In this time of multiple overlapping crises, from class cancellations to the rising cost of living, we need each other. We need to have each other’s backs. We need to get organized and build solidarity.

I’m Ben Cushing, and I’m running for PCCFFAP Organizing Officer. As a 15-year PCC faculty member in sociology who has held both PT and FT positions, I see our college “managers” becoming increasingly corporate. I see colleagues who are feeling increasingly isolated, precarious and powerless. And I see students who are facing an uncertain future.

We are in this together.

As Organizing Officer, my goal will be to build our organizational capacity as a union, so that we can win a better college. As we prepare for our coming contract fight, we need a bottom-up, democratic organization that encourages participation by all members. I’ll draw on two decades of organizing experience (in the global justice movement, Latin American Indigenous solidarity struggles and racial justice work) to cultivate concrete relations of solidarity with allied unions, community organizations and students.

Workers around the country, from Starbucks employees to nurses, are organizing and winning big! Let’s put the movement back into the labor movement, for a better PCC and a better world!

Marianne Stupfel-Wallace for Nominations & Elections Officer

I am running for PCCFFAP Nominations and Elections Officer because I believe in a bottom-up approach to organize workers to win a better workplace and a better world. We are stronger together if we have a truly democratic union.

As the Nominations and Elections Officer, I will work to strengthen the democracy of our elections which means having an active membership with a large voter turnout. This can be achieved with:

a member-led approach where all members feel their voices are heard.
candidate forums where members learn about the candidates and ask questions.
an engaged membership where we see the impact of our voices and feel motivated to participate in union organizing activities / committees.

I’ve been an active union member since I started working at PCC in 2008 as a PT ESOL instructor. In the past year, I joined the PT Bargaining Advisory Council and the Nominations and Elections Committee.

My conversations with part-time colleagues attest to what job insecurity does to morale. The Administration has clearly shown that they want to corporatize the college without valuing those who serve our students. They reorganized under the claim of “better service to students,” without input from students, faculty, AP’s, or staff. What we have really seen is an uncertain future for everyone and no real improvement to student services and equity. That's why I'm running on the Unite For A Future slate and will work in my position as Nominations and Election Officer to make our union stronger and bolder.

If you share this vision, vote for me as the next Nominations and Elections Officer along with my colleagues on the Unite For A Future slate.

Matt Reeder for PT Rep - Sylvania Campus

Over the past few years, we have dealt with one crisis after another, and it can seem overwhelming to even know where to begin to tackle the challenges we face. Yet history tells us that if we organize and work together, we can achieve what was previously believed to be unachievable.

True change comes from the ground up. I am more of a believer of this than ever before, and this is why I am running for the position of Part-time Campus representative for Sylvania campus. It seems strange to run for a position while I have been working remotely for more than two years, but Sylvania is still my home. As we return to campus, I look forward to helping adjunct faculty (the majority faculty) work to organize to improve our working conditions. I previously served this role from 2017 to 2019, and I believe more than ever that we need to work together to help us improve to empower faculty, whether adjunct or full-time. Over the past few years I have served on the political action committee for PCCFFAP, working to endorse candidates and translate words to action. Please vote for me at to serve Sylvania campus, and we can continue this work together.

Aubrey Baldwin for FT Rep - Cascade Campus

Times of change and crisis bring us together, presenting us with opportunities to consider anew what we’d like to create in the world. PCC is an essential and powerful institution in our community, and can lead the way for a safer, more innovative, and more effective post-pandemic workplace for the sake of our students.

I am running for the PCCFFAP full-time faculty representative for Cascade because I believe I can make a difference for our College in this role. As a former litigating attorney, I understand the legal and economic environment in which PCC operates, and am skilled at discerning and capitalizing on common ground and mutual benefit to achieve our goals. Before law school, I worked as a community organizer in a variety of contexts, and I honor the power of people to create and maintain conditions most suitable for their success. As a faculty member working closely with students and the people at PCC who support them, my mind is always on creative and incremental improvements to how we do business. I have found that our students, and the Faculty, Academic Professionals and Classified Staff working directly with them, are not only dedicated and intelligent enough for the job, but are also in the best position to drive the future of PCC. I am dedicated to centering the wisdom of our students and PCCFFAP members to collectively and strategically lead the College to a brighter and more equitable future. Finally, I am eager to bring my perspective as a CTE faculty member to union leadership. Please vote for me as Cascade FT Faculty Representative to help build a better College together.