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“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 🔥🔥🔥

COCC is not alone: Two other Oregon community colleges, four school districts face possible strikes this spring SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Contract negotiations at four Oregon K-12 school districts and three community colleges remain unresolved after a year "and are rapidly approaching strike threats in all seven lo...

Strike Wave, LFG 🌊

@pccffap.bsky.social

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

Strike threat looms at Portland Community College Raises of 0.35% a year? Yes, you read the 0 right. Two unions at PCC jointly declared impasse Jan. 30 and could strike as soon as March 10.

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

Open Letter to OCCA Nov. 6, 2025 [On Nov. 6, 2025 a group of PCC Administrators presented a talk at the Oregon Community College Association annual conference entitled, “Through the Data-informed Looking Glass: Rethinking Academic Pr...

Read the full letter here. 9/ docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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/

Portland Community College cuts programs to fight budget deficit The program reductions stem from increasing costs, insufficient state funding and declining enrollment.

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.

Powerpoint slide with the heading: Definition of Reduction in Force (RIF) Article 24.1 Layoff due to -Loss of funding -Program Discontinuance -Financial Shortage Does not apply to part-time faculty or temproary staff (article 24.1.1)

Powerpoint slide with the heading: Definition of Reduction in Force (RIF) Article 24.1 Layoff due to -Loss of funding of a special contract program or of a 1900 fund program -Program Discontinuance due to enrollment decline in a program or for other non-financial reasons -A Board-declared college-wide Financial Shortage Does not apply to part-time faculty or temproary staff (article 24.1.1)

The difference between how PCC presents contract language on layoffs (left) and what the contract actually says (right - our additions in red).

We'll be filing a group grievance on behalf of our colleagues who received layoff/reduction notices.

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Fund Don't Freeze: National Higher Education Strategy Call. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Join higher education workers from around the country on 2/13 at 8 PM Eastern / 7 PM Central / 6 PM Mountain / 5 PM Pacific for a national strategy call on the federal attack on higher education and h...

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.@dubarrypie.bsky.social : “We’ve had a lot of our employees join the picket line...that kind of solidarity with other workers is really important to us, because what this incident shows is that our bosses are also in solidarity with each other.” 💯

FT Faculty Emiliano Vega: “This is a familiar theme that PCC employees have seen in the last number of years with the college, which is, ‘Hey, we empathize with you, we really hear you—now do what we want you to do.’”

Bosses love to *perform* progressive values but we know whose side they're on.

Providence Relents After Ordering Nursing Instructors to Cross Picket Lines On the Monday before the start of the ongoing Providence strike, Natalie Barron, a nursing instructor at Portland Community College and per diem nurse at the Providence Portland Medical Center, receiv...

After ordering its nursing faculty to cross the picket line of Oregon's largest ever healthcare strike, PCC backed down under pressure from @pccffap.bsky.social

Cross-sector solidarity FTW ✊

#ProvStrike2025

I ran another recent email from our President about "reaffirming our values" through multiple AI detectors & all found it 100% AI-generated. What does that say about our college administration's values? Our student gov is asking for a plan to protect undocumented students and this is the response?

Screen Grab from Quillbot AI detector shows a message from the PCC President and the determination that 100% of the text was likely generated by AI

The PCC President has an army of communications professionals at her disposal, including an Internal Communications Manager. This morning, after three days of radio silence about the federal funding freeze, she sent a message that was likely generated by AI.

Just another day at PCC where students, staff, and faculty are left in the dark about things that affect them. Chop chop! #ChopFromTheTop

WHY hasn't PCC communicated a single word to faculty and staff about the federal funding freeze?

They hired an INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER in 2023.

Pure administrative bloat! Time to #ChopFromTheTop