The AFT Seattle Community Colleges, Local 1789 represents ALL faculty in the Seattle Community Colleges.  Teachers, librarians, and counselors are all faculty and all proudly represented. 

 

We are affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers WA; the American Federation of Teachers; and the AFL-CIO. 

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The mission of the American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, is to improve the lives of our members and their families, to give voice to their legitimate professional, economic and social aspirations, to strengthen the institutions in which we work, to improve the quality of the services we provide, to bring together all members to assist and support one another and to promote democracy, human rights and freedom in our union, in our nation and throughout the world.
 --From the Futures II report adopted at the AFT Convention, July 5, 2000.

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.

The American Federation of Teachers Washington (AFT WA) represents two year and four year college faculty, paraprofessionals, classified employees, child care workers and others in the state of Washington.  See www.aftwa.org for more information.

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 is the largest higher education union in the country, representing over 130,000 higher education faculty, professional staff and graduate employees. The AFT higher education department mission is to help our affiliates and their members prosper in the face of political, economic and technological forces challenging the most basic assumptions about the union's role on campus.