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Skip to main content Home About Us About Us Contact Us AFT Oregon AFT.org Constitution & Bylaws PCCFFAP Executive Council News News Press Resources Resources Resources for APs Resources for PT Faculty Membership Member Benefits Key Documents Activate Your PCCFFAP Membership PCC Faculty and AP Contract Actions & Events Take Action Events 1 2 3 Activate Your Membership Did you know that your union dues are tax deductible? Activate your membership today! We want to hear from you! We want to hear from you about your employment and working conditions. Do you have questions about the contract? Concerns about bargaining? Ideas about how to make PCC better? Click here to contact your federation Executive Council members! Take a Colleague to Coffee! PCCFFAP's new initiative for 2017: Take a Colleague to Coffee! 1 2 3 Standing up to Trump's Travel Ban President Trump’s executive order that prohibiting entry into the United States by citizens of a targeted set of countries with predominantly Muslim residents affects approximately 25,000 people holding student and work visas, and as many as 500,000 people who are permanent legal residents of the United States. more AFT members dive into candidate endorsement process As the presidential elections inch closer and the field of candidates gets more and more competitive, AFT members are engaging, parsing campaign platforms, asking questions of the candidates, and voicing their priorities as educators, healthcare practitioners and public employees. Thus far, the AFT has hosted eight AFT Votes town halls in eight different locations across the country, giving members the opportunity to meet candidates in person and hear about their stands on education, working families, healthcare and other top-line issues. Also part of the AFT’s robust endorsement process: surveys, debate parties and lots of information on AFTVotes.org. more Best economy ever? In AFT President Randi Weingarten’s latest column in the New York Times , she writes that, despite President Trump’s claims that we have the “best economy ever,” his policies are harming working and middle-class Americans, many of whom are struggling just to get by. “Our political and economic systems are so weighted toward the wealthy that opportunity will only come through the power of collective action,” she writes, using “the surest vehicles to increase opportunity for ordinary Americans”—public education, labor unions and voting. Read the full column . AFT launches massive national campaign to fund public education The AFT’s long-time advocacy for public schools has just been turbo-charged, with a sweeping, multi-pronged campaign to fund the future of American public education. Amid the continuing wave of teacher activism shining a spotlight on massive shortfalls in education investment, the Fund Our Future initiative aims to take the teachers’ megaphone into Congress, statehouses and communities nationwide. more Never again “A majority of American teens say they are worried about a shooting happening at their school. Let that sink in,” AFT President Randi Weingarten writes in her latest column for the New York Times . “Young people are demanding meaningful action beyond ‘thoughts and prayers.’ They know, as do law enforcement officers and educators, that there are effective ways to address gun violence.” Read more about the proven strategies that would enhance school safety and reduce gun violence . We can fight back against the private prison operators that fuel mass incarceration It’s time to divest from private prisons: The US incarcerates more prisoners than any other nation in the world - and private prisons profit. Our new report details how AFT members can encourage their pension funds to divest from private prison corporations. more 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 next › last » Search Search Member login User ID * Enter your user ID. Password * Enter your password. Register Here Forgot password? Forgot user ID? RSS AFT © American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO. All rights reserved. Photographs and illustrations, as well as text, cannot be used without permission from the AFT. Privacy Policy Administrator login...