Greetings! On Monday, Feb. 12, 2018 the UFE Bargaining Team (which includes Stephen Beck, Jon Davies [b-team chair], Gary McNeil [lead negotiator], Grace Huerta, Laurie Meeker, Miranda Mellis and Julie Russo) met with members of the TESC administration to begin collective bargaining and negotiate a successor contract. This contract follows the UFE and TESC ratification of the Fall 2017 tentative agreement which was overwhelmingly supported by our voting members in September. You can read the full digest below where the complete elements of the TA and the new professional development MOU are described. Key components of the 2017-2018 TARead More
Greetings UFE members. Here is a Winter quarter update. Yesterday, Feb. 21, President Bridges issued his comments regarding TESC’s actions to support undocumented students on our campus (see his statement below). I want to thank our students, staff and UFE members who have been out-front with President Bridges when addressing such issues as: the presence of ICE on our campus; undocumented student support services; the status of undocumented student records; undocumented student access to in-state & TESC need grants, and; seeking opportunities for student, faculty and staff training. Since last November, our Evergreen community has worked together to ensureRead More
Greetings UFE Members. This is a reminder of our membership meeting on Friday, Feb. 3 from 5-6:30 p.m. in Sem2, B-1107. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss our upcoming bargaining survey and priorities, sabbaticals, MYC process, DACA actions, to name a few topics. We sure hope you can attend this important meeting. Thanks all, Grace Huerta, UFE Chair _______________________________________________ Fall Quarter Update, 2016 Greetings UFE Members. As you know, this has been a very challenging quarter on a number of fronts. Nevertheless, together the Coordinating Committee and Stewards Council have been engaged in a number ofRead More
The United Faculty of Evergreen (UFE) representing more than 250 faculty at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, joins its voice to that of other educational unions, organizations, students and civil society to denounce the violence and killings unleashed upon the teachers in Mexico. We condemn the extreme violence that the Mexican State has used and continues to perpetuate against teachers in Mexico, most recently on June 19, 2016 in Nochixtlán, Oaxaca, who have been and continue to protest the all out privatization of education and the punitive education “reforms,” which have resulted until now in the deathsRead More
What is a public record? A public record is any state or local record relating to the conduct of government or the performance of a governmental function, and is prepared, used or retained by any state or local agency. A public record can exist in any form such as: writing, recordings, photos, or emails. Public records are maintained by state and governmental agencies. The Evergreen State College maintains a public records website http://www.evergreen.edu/publicrecords/ and employs a public records officer whose role is to insure that TESC is in compliance with the Washington State Public Records Act (RCW 42.56). ForRead More
UFE members cast their ballots May 16-18 to elect Officers and Stewards for the 2016-2018 term. Voter turnout was 43 percent of the UFE membership. Election results are as follows: UFE Chair: Grace Huerta, elected with 93% of votes cast. Vice-Chair: Jon Davies, elected with 98% of votes cast. Stewards Coordinator: John Baldridge, elected with 97% of votes cast. Communications Coordinator: Laurie Meeker, elected with 95% of votes cast. Treasurer: Marla Elliott, elected with 98% of votes cast. At-Large Representatives: Stephen Beck, elected with 93% of votes cast and Al Josephy elected with 92% of votes cast. The Stewards Slate was elected with 98%Read More
Beginning on Monday, May 16 through Wednesday, May 18 we are conducting our UFE Officers, Stewards and At-large Elections for the July 2016-18 term. During last week’s membership meeting, and according to our bylaws, a candidate slate was presented & nominations were taken from the floor. The slate can be found at the bottom of this post. Please cast your vote at our polling station in front of SemII A2117 (Cluster Support Office) on: Monday, May 16 (12-1 & 5-6) SemII A2117 Tuesday, May 17 (12-1 & 5-6) SemII A2117 Wednesday, May 18 (12-1) SemII A2117 Wednesday, May 18 (5-5:20pm in the SemII B1105Read More
