About Us

Contact Information

Have questions? Need to talk? Get in contact with the Executive Board at seattleprostaff6550@gmail.com

Key Points of Our Agreement with Seattle Colleges District

We formed our union, the AFT Seattle Professional Staff Local 6550, to have a voice in our workplace and advocate for high quality public higher education. We united to take on important issues like job security, work load, and salary inequality. We bargained our second contract with the Seattle Colleges District in 2018 which enabled us to protect important rights like severance pay, that have recently come under pressure. Here's a synopsis of the key points of our contract:

· Higher Pay Raises! ARTICLE 12 – COMPENSATION
Yes! We got 4% and 3% raises in 2018 and 2019 respectively

About AFT Higher Education

The AFT represents higher education faculty (including both full- and part-time), professional staff and graduate employees, in all sectors of higher education—public and private, two-year and four-year institutions of higher education. MORE

History of the AFT

Learn the history of the AFT, including the union's founding in Chicago in 1916, its affiliation with the AFL-CIO, its battles for workers and human rights and its continued work to uphold the proud traditions on which the union was created.

AFT Mission Statement

The American Federation of Teachers is a union of professionals that champions fairness; democracy; economic opportunity; and high-quality public education, healthcare and public services for our students, their families and our communities. We are committed to advancing these principles through community engagement, organizing, collective bargaining and political activism, and especially through the work our members do.

About the AFT

Learn more about the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), which was founded in 1916 to represent the economic, social and professional interests of classroom teachers and is an affiliated international union of the AFL-CIO.