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PAGE 2 | March 1, 2019 | NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS (International Standard Serial Number 0894-444X) Established in 1900 in Portland, Oregon as a voice of the la- bor movement. Published on a semi-monthly basis on the first and third Fridays of each month by the Oregon Labor Press Publishing Co. Inc., a non-profit mutual benefit corpo- ration owned by 20 unions and councils including the Ore- gon AFL-CIO. Serving more than 120 union organizations in Oregon and Southwest Washington. Office location: 4275 NE Halsey St., Portland, Oregon Mailing address: P.O. Box 13150, Portland, OR 97213 Phone: (503) 288-3311 Web address: http://nwlaborpress.org Editor & Manager: Michael Gutwig Associate editor: Don McIntosh Office manager: Jill Lukens Printed on recycled paper, using soy-based inks, by members of Teamsters Local 747-M. SUBSCRIPTIONS: Individual subscriptions are $15 a year for union members, $23 a year for all others. Pay by credit card online at nwlaborpress.org/subscribe, or send a check to our mailing address (above) along with your name, address and union affiliation, if any. Group rates of $11.28 a year per person are available for 25 or more subscriptions; call 503-288-3311 for details. CORRECTIONS: See an error? Please let us know at editor@nwlaborpress.org or by phone at 503-288-3311. PERIODICALS POSTAGE PAID AT PORTLAND, OREGON. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: If you move, let us know at nwlaborpress.org/subscriber-services or by mail at our mailing address (above). Be sure to provide your old and new addresses and the name/number of your local union. Please allow three weeks for the change to take effect. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS P.O. BOX 13150 PORTLAND, OR 97213-0150 PLEASE SHOW OUR ADVERTISERS YOU APPRECIATE THEIR SUPPORT FOR THIS LABOR MOVEMENT NEWSPAPER! Low Prices! Coats, etc. Mon-Fri 9-6, Sat 9:30-5:30, Sun 12-6 ...Clark faculty press for pay parity with K-12 teachers From Page 1 Full-time professors there make $53,000 to $75,000 a year for year-round work, and went without even cost-of-living in- creases for six years in a row. Meanwhile, at nearby K-12 school districts, school teachers with an equivalent masters de- gree make $93,000 to $97,000 after a recent pay bump. “The cost of living has in- creased so much in Vancouver and Portland in the last few years, and our salaries have not caught up at all,” said commu- nications instructor Suzanne Southerland. Clark College music teacher Don Appert, head of his depart- ment, says he’s never had more than a 3 percent raise in over 20 years. And nursing professor Lisa Aepfelbacher says gradu- ates of her nursing program will make more their first year of work nursing than the instruc- tors who taught them. In this year’s salary negotia- tions, Clark administrators be- gan by offering just a cost-of- living increase. Union president Kim Sullivan said that amounted to bad faith: What’s the use of bargaining as a union if the college is only offering what it’s already mandated by state law to give? At a Feb. 13 bargaining session, the college increased its offer to 1 percent above the state’s cost-of-living raise. But Clark administration is also asking departments to pre- pare for budget cuts of up to 5 percent, citing declining enroll- ment and the state revenue that’s tied to enrollment. Several years ago, budget cuts led Clark to eliminate whole programs, in- cluding French and German, paralegal training, and medical radiology. In an emailed statement, a spokesperson for Clark College said the school — in partnership with the State Board for Com- munity and Technical Colleges — is asking the Washington Legislature to fund a 12 percent increase in employee salaries over the next four years. Until salary negotiations are settled, the union is asking members to wear their red “pay equity” t-shirts every Wednes- day. “We hope they don’t make us strike,” Southerland said.
