United Faculty of Evergreen Organizing Committee Statement of Purpose

The United Faculty of Evergreen Organizing Committee is an inclusive and growing group of volunteers across Evergreen campuses, planning units and degree programs, organizing a faculty union to engage in collective bargaining. Right now, we’re talking with our colleagues about what they value and what they want to change, preparing for a representation election and building a communications network. We’d like to invite you to be part of this union, which will be affiliated with United Faculty of Washington State, a new union of public college and university faculty.

Our goal is to negotiate a contract that addresses our pay, benefits and working conditions as Evergreen faculty. Collective bargaining makes faculty legal equals with university administrators on issues affecting our compensation and working conditions. It is a process that guarantees us a voice in decisions that affect our work.

United Faculty of Evergreen stands for the following principles and goals:

• We support the political equality of all faculty; we are committed to represent all faculty regardless of campus, planning unit association, or type of contract (continuing, term, visiting, adjunct, or post-retirement).
• We hold that academic freedom is a fundamental right of all faculty, on and off campus.
• We affirm that administration, faculty, staff and students are partners in shared governance on campus; we are committed to working with existing governance bodies to support a strong faculty voice and assure that Evergreen’s governance practices match Evergreen’s governance principles.
• We uphold the college’s mission to offer an excellent interdisciplinary liberal arts education to a broad and diverse population; we are committed to advocating working conditions and public funding that will allow faculty to fulfill this mission.
• We are committed to building an inclusive union that supports social and economic justice on campus, locally, nationally and globally.
• We are committed to the establishment of a strong, democratic faculty union
• We will work for vote by the full Evergreen faculty on union representation.
• We are committed to a participatory union local in which membership is local, all officers stand for open election by union members, and all contracts will be ratified by the local membership.
• We stand for transparency in procedural and business matters.
• We will work with other United Faculty unions to support public higher education.
• We will work toward solidarity with students, with other unions on and off campus, and with staff, to further our mission as educators.

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