AFT was one of many community service

and professional organizations that

braved the cold and rain in Olympia on

Monday February 20th to argue that we

can’t take more budget cuts and that

state leadership needs to step up and

find a sane alternative revenue system.

Our presence as a campus has been in-

creasing at these events (at least in

terms of recent years). For those of you

who didn’t make it Monday, there’s al-

ways next time (and there will be a next

time).

Pictured left to right: Annette Stofer

from South Seattle Community College,

AFT-WA President Sandra Schroeder,

and Kevin Asman from South Puget

Sound Community College.

SoundingsSoundings

SCC Board of Trustees Meeting

Wednesday, February 22 Board Room Administration building 4 to 6 PM

AFT Local 1950

E-Board Meeting

Monday, February 27 PUB 9202 3 to 5 PM

Screening of the Film Good Food with Q & A afterward

Wednesday, February 29 Theater/1600 Building 12:30 to 3 PM

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in this issuein this issue Rally for Our Economic Future

Gary Parks, Professor of English & AFT Local 1950 COPE/Legislative Rep. gparks@shoreline.edu

President’s Corner 2

Martin Luther King County

Labor Council Update 4

Washington State Labor

Council Update 5

Making Waves -

One Campus, One Theme 6

COPE Donors Needed 9

Soundings Submission Policy 10

SCCFT Executive Board 10

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President’s CornerPresident’s Corner

At the mid-point of Winter quarter, I am feeling tired

and cranky, and I’m behind. I look around and see my

colleagues showing similar signs of fatigue and over-

work.

If you are like me, you have another dashboard to fill

out, another planning guide to review, and another

accreditation meeting to attend, and that’s just this

week.

Why does it seem this year as though there is more

faculty work to do

than ever before?

Maybe it’s because

there are fewer ten-

ured and tenure-

track Shoreline fac-

ulty doing faculty

work.

When I looked at the numbers, I was shocked. Over

the last six years, Shoreline Community College has

lost 23 percent of its tenured and tenure-track facul-

ty. That’s right--there are 35 fewer tenured and ten-

ure-track faculty working at Shoreline during 2011-

2012 than were working at Shoreline during 2005-

2006.

How did this happen? And how does such a significant

loss of tenured faculty create a college built to last?

Had SCC administration proposed in the Fall of 2005

reducing the number of tenured faculty at the college

by 23 percent, the campus community would have re-

acted with disbelief. But the gradual loss of 23 per-

cent of tenured and tenure-track faculty has caused

relatively muted protest from those of us who have

watched it happen.

Perhaps this is because these losses have occurred in

the midst of crisis. The college first experienced a

reduction of its FTES allocation and then faced signifi-

cant cuts in state support for its remaining FTES.

Such substantial losses of tenured faculty have meant

a loss to the college of valuable professional expertise

and instructional experience during times of great

challenge. Indeed, and despite these losses, the col-

lege has during this crisis period relied heavily on re-

maining tenured and tenure-track faculty to put their

shoulders to the wheel to push forward important col-

lege initiatives including expansion of online instruc-

tion and increased international student enrollment.

While remaining fac-

ulty continue to do

their best to engage

students and inspire

learning, it’s time to

reflect on what the

significant loss of

tenured faculty has

meant for the day-to-day operations of the college

and to ask whether the college can sustain further fac-

ulty reductions.

First, with fewer tenured faculty, the college relies

more and more on hard-working associate faculty to

teach its courses, particularly in large departments

like English, ESL, and Mathematics. Associate faculty

do an excellent job in the classroom and working with

students, but they are contracted to do only instruc-

tional work for which they are paid lower wages than

full-time faculty. Low pay and lack of full-time course

assignments at Shoreline force many associate faculty

to teach at two or more campuses to make ends meet.

Splitting their time and energies between two or more

campuses mean that associate faculty are often not

available to take on extra duties, whether paid for on

an hourly basis as required under the contract or

“volunteered” by associate faculty who are reluctant

to insist on fair compensation. And while quite a few

associate faculty have taught at the college for many

years, lack of job security, low pay, and the need to

A College Built to Last?

Amy J. Kinsel

Professor of History & AFT Local 1950 President akinsel@shoreline.edu

“Over the last six years, Shoreline

Community College has lost 23 percent

of its tenured and tenure-track faculty.”

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pursue better teaching opportunities wherever they

are available mean that many other associate faculty

have little incentive to invest their time and energies

in Shoreline.

A second consequence of loss of tenured faculty is

that the surviving full-time faculty take on additional

work to try to fill the gaps left by departed col-

leagues. This tactic of filling in the gaps worked for a

time, but as layoffs of faculty have continued, spread-

ing undone work among remaining faculty has created

what are, frankly, unsustainable faculty workloads.

Faculty all over campus are seriously overloaded.

Full-time and associate faculty alike are teaching full

or overenrolled courses. These courses may use facul-

ty time more “efficiently” because there are more

students in each class, but when the workload be-

comes unsustainable something has to give. Faculty

are cutting back on non-teaching work where possible,

and they are asking each other whether they can put

some of their classroom assignments on the back burn-

er for now rather than serving students the entire in-

structional menu.

At the same time that faculty are teaching more stu-

dents, they are adopting new instructional technolo-

gy. Faculty at Shoreline have embraced new media in

the physical classroom and have moved en masse into

online instruction through the virtual classroom. But

successful innovation cannot happen if core faculty do

not have time to learn new technologies, share peda-

gogical ideas, design innovative instruction, and gath-

er data to assess its efficacy. As faculty, we find our-

selves leaping ahead into a brave new world without

sufficient time to understand where we are now or

where we might be going.

Faculty work outside the classroom seems to grow ex-

ponentially quarter by quarter. Among their myriad

“divisional and program duties,” full-time faculty

work on assessment, curricular development, program

review, strategic planning, advising, college govern-

ance, accreditation, virtual college, internationaliza-

tion, articulation and transfer planning, policy review

and revision, events planning, course schedule con-

struction, faculty evaluations, division planning, divi-

sion meetings, and learning how to use Degree Audit,

Omni Update, and the latest version of Blackboard.

Who can keep up with all of this work? Not me, even

though I spend untold hours a week trying.

Fortunately, there may at last be cause for cautious

optimism that the state financial crisis is no longer

getting worse. The state Office of Financial Manage-

ment’s quarterly revenue forecast released on Febru-

ary 16 shows an increase in state revenue collections

for the first time since June 2010. Even more encour-

agingly, on February 15 the state announced that

quarterly demand for state services had fallen by $340

million.

Together the uptick in state revenues and decrease in

demand for state services have reduced the projected

state budget shortfall for the remainder of the 2011-

13 biennium from $1.5 billion to $1.1 billion. This is

good news for legislators meeting in special session in

Olympia who must still craft a supplemental state

budget.

And it may be good news for higher education funding.

Community college faculty, staff, administrators and

students should all hope so, for a college that contin-

ues to shrink its tenured faculty ranks is not a college

built to last.

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Martin Luther King County Labor Council Meeting-

“Not Enough is Being Done Now.” Elizabeth Hanson, Professor of ESL & AFT Local 1950 Secretary elhanson@shoreline.edu

Labor UpdatesLabor Updates

I attended the Martin Luther King, Jr. County Labor Council Meeting on February 15th and here is my re-port: The MLKCLC will co-sponsor “Unemployment Nation” with the City of Seattle, a two-day local event to pre-sent the challenges of the unemployed and highlight the failure of Congress to take action that puts Ameri-cans back to work. Date unknown at this time. (Emphasis added to denote the energy in the room.) “Not enough is being done now.”

MLKCLC is endorsing a petition calling for the Washing on State Legislature and the U.S. Congress to amend the Constitution to clearly state that corporations aren’t people. Political contributions aren’t Constitu-tionally protected speech; Congress and the States shall have the power to regulate contributions and expenditures for campaigns and bal-lot measures and require public dis-closure of the sources. The Seat-tle City Council shall write the peti-tion and call upon the Washington Legislature and the U.S. Congress to amend the Constitution through a ballot measure in the November 2012 general election. Information may be found at the Move to Amend website (see Get Linked In on the next page for links to all the infor-mation. MLKCLC endorses the second annual Emerging Leaders Conference on April 13th and 14th at South Seattle Community College. Some members putting together an inflatable float and activities are being planned for the “under 30 folks.” The Snohomish County Labor Council is hosting an open forum in Everett in March for all candidates run-ning for the 1st Congressional. It is wide-open. All can-didates are welcome. This forum will be fun to attend and informative. The event is on Friday, March 23rd at the Machinists Union Hall---8729 Airport Road, Everett.

Doors open at 6:00 p.m. The forum will take place from 7:00-9:00pm. Several reports followed this news. A few brothers were upset because when political candidates go to Bellevue, they are staying at a non-Union hotel, and also at other events candidates aren’t using union workers for their lighting and sound systems. One brother, representing electrical workers, talked about how the infrastructure bond in the legislature would be a good thing to pass because there is an un-employment rate among unionized construction work-ers of 25-40 percent. Also he noted that infrastructure in Washington State is getting shoddy, particularly roads and bridges, and said that in his view there is too much bandaging going on. Parts of our whole infra-structure system are on their last legs.

Listening to all of these news items, I had a heavy heart. Then sud-denly, a member of the Seattle Labor Chorus stood up and led us in a song. Something about people taking care of

each other, helping each other solve problems. It was rousing. The guy said he wants me to join, and I will if Susan Dolacky will give me a voice lesson. The Seattle Labor Chorus will hold its Annual Commu-nity Singalong and Silent Auction on Saturday, March 3 from 7:00-9:00 pm at the Greenwood Senior Center. To round off the evening, I spoke about SB 5896 which would heavily weigh standardized test scores, like the MSP and HSPE, in teacher evaluations. I pointedly said that when class sizes are high, one sixth or so of chil-dren are on food stamps and 9 percent are unem-ployed, and families are stressed, it is a little tough for parents and teachers to help a kid jump through specific hoops to pass a test that make no sense to the kid. People throughout our community are squeezed, which is bad.

“At some point everyone will realize that

one’s own personal well-being is reliant

upon the well-being of all people.”

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Washington State Labor Council—

“Don’t Cut the Solution!” Gary Parks, COPE/Legislative Rep. gparks@shoreline.edu

I attended the Washington State Labor

Council Legislative and Endorsement Con-

vention as an SCCFT delegate on Wednes-

day and Thursday, February 8th and 9th in

Olympia. (WSLC is an affiliation of labor

unions of all kinds from all of Washington state.) Wednesday

night was a “meet and greet” opportunity to mingle with oth-

er labor reps and leaders and also state legislators. On Thurs-

day, we learned about the legislative priorities of WSLC,

which can be summed up in one word: JOBS! WSLC sees job-

creation as the key to a new economy, and is working on all

fronts to keep jobs in Washington and to get jobs-creation

legislation passed that would focus on social infrastructure

needed for the future. Finally, delegates heard either videos

or speeches from the Democratic candidates for Governor

(Jay Inslee), Senator (Maria Cantwell) and Attorney General

(Bob Ferguson). Republican candidates were invited as well

but declined. Delegates chose to endorse the three Demo-

crats mentioned above, with more endorsements to come lat-

er.

During part of the presentation, the various unions represent-

ed had a chance to speak to the group on issues on im-

portance. Long-time AFT Lobbyist Bernal Baca stepped up to

the microphone and informed the group of the importance of

House Bill 2368, appointing a labor pick to local Boards of

Trustees, and House Bill 1631 (which is now dead) on estab-

lishing regular increments for faculty. Baca reminded the

group that not only do teachers hold jobs and play a role in

their local economies, but more importantly we create jobs by

creating in people the skills needed to hold them. The mes-

sage was: DON’T CUT THE SOLUTION.

I also spoke about aspects of our budg-et situation at Shoreline and that we are seeking the guidance from AFT. As you can see, there are some trou-bles we are all facing. And personally, I don’t care if the person wants to put a D behind their name or an R behind their name. At some point everyone can see the problems, and all of us are affected by them. A hovering injustice I call it. However, the answers won’t be found in bipartisan name-calling. They will be found by getting out and talking to others you don’t naturally agree with, listening to each other, talking about data and history and then evaluating solution(s). Above all, a feeling of relatedness with the sur-rounding community must take place. At some point everyone will realize that one’s own personal well-being is reliant upon the well-being of all peo-ple. I really do believe that. In Solidarity, Elizabeth Hanson

Get Linked InGet Linked In

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• Washington State Labor Council • House Bill 2368 • Jay Inslee • Maria Cantwell • Bob Ferguson

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Making WavesMaking Waves

When I first saw the flyer

advertising Food, Inc. I

knew it would be a valua-

ble film to see. At the

same time, I also knew

that I could easily avoid

seeing it. Casual conver-

sations about it had in-

formed me enough to

know that the scenes of

animal cruelty might haunt

me for a very long time—as

had similar scenes from

past films. So why would

I want to put myself through that again? But Neal Va-

sishth was in the office next door. And posters were

up and down the hall. Despite my initial strong re-

sistance, I decided that it really would be a good op-

portunity for my ESL international students to attend.

And therefore I would attend. My reasons were two-

fold: They would, of course, learn so much from the

content, benefit from the language exposure and enjoy

being a part of the SCC community. I also seriously

wanted to know about the information in the film.

I had a little time to come up with a plan that might

help me through it. Taking the students to see it and

not staying to watch it myself didn’t really seem like

an option. Gentle nudging and information from Neal

and Rachel David helped. Neal described a few scenes

without elaborating too graphically. He suggested the

possibility of seeing it on a computer to create more

distance. I made a commitment to go, but still felt

very uncomfortable. On the day of the film I still had

not previewed it. Shouldn’t I at least give my students

some help with new vocabulary?

At 7:00 a.m. on the day of the campus Food, Inc.

screening I decided the time had come and I needed to

preview the film. On my computer—great idea! After

a little searching, I was able to sign up on Amazon.com

and soon images of the American food industry were

streaming into my home office. Before settling down

to view, I first had to decide on the “right” viewing

All across the Shoreline Community College campus

different faculty in very different classes have been

incorporating the theme of “food” into their curricu-

lum. This effort has been a part of the “One-Campus,

One-Theme” effort. “The idea is to support learning

and understanding on a deep level via a central theme

across disciplines and this could be a way to connect

programs at Shoreline,” states English Professor Neal

Vasishth. By using one theme in classes across cam-

pus students are encourages to make interdisciplinary

connections that also stretch into the greater commu-

nity. The overarching goal is, not only, to engage stu-

dents in a broader interdisciplinary conversations, but

to promote food literacy; things like knowing where

our food comes from, learning about food issues in our

communities and coming up with possible solutions.

How has the theme been implemented across campus?

One of the professors involved in the One Campus,

One Theme effort is Drama faculty member Tony

Doupe. In his Fall Acting, Writing, and Directing for

the Camera class his students were assigned to write

and shoot a scene that involved a banana.

Librarians Claire Murata and Deena Sukkar have creat-

ed a library guide (LibGuide) to support students doing

research about food. You can access the guide by

clicking here.

Efforts like these are building off of work that has al-

ready been done on campus to promote learning

around food-issues. Last year students in Education

Coordinator Guru Dorje’s Learning Center North clas-

ses and Biology Professor Judy Penn’s Sustainable Gar-

dening class collaborated on a community gardening

project to help those in need.

Interested in getting involved? There is still time to

engage with the One Campus, One Theme of “Food”

for the 2011—2012 school year. See page 8 for more

ideas and information.

What’s Food Got to Do With Drama?

Ruth Gregory, Digital Filmmaking & Cinema Associ-ate Faculty & AFT Local 1950 Humanities Div. Rep.

rgregory@shoreline.edu

Getting Over My Phobia of Food (Inc.)

Donna Linn, ESL Associate Faculty dlinn@shoreline.edu

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specifications. I didn’t really need all 17” did I? No!

Half of that would do fine! And with one easy click all

those images were easily reduced to a “reasonable”

size. And I didn’t really need to sit right in front of it,

did I? No. So I sat on the spare bed on the other side

of the room. I was feeling better. Also, I knew it

should be easy enough to cover my eyes when I thought

it might be necessary. As I watched, I also took as

many notes as possible, in an effort to help students

with understanding. I appreciated the added focus.

The carefully crafted film drew me in instantly. I need

to know this! I had managed to cover my eyes in sev-

eral places so wasn’t feeling particularly traumatized.

Four companies owning most of the U.S. food industry;

chemicals induced at every opportunity; chickens that

could barely walk due to artificially large breasts; con-

veyor belts utilized

in ways that neither

Ford nor most peo-

ple could even im-

agine; and corn,

corn, corn, to make

money, money,

money. Yes, there’s

a whole lot more but

I’ll spare the details

here. I was glad to know more details—and really

grateful that students would have an opportunity to

see it. With increased confidence, I typed up a synop-

sis and key vocabulary to share with the class.

As we assembled in the college theater, the next ques-

tion was, did I need to see it again? I decided it might

be useful and ended up staying through most of the

film. As the whole audience gasped aloud my face was

covered, so I did spare myself the trauma of watching

most of the grisly parts of the film again. However, I

did happen to see how cows are slammed against a

wall for a “humane slaughter” and the flashbacks of

that have been coming ever since. Despite the diffi-

culty of seeing some parts of this film, the overwhelm-

ing response from students confirmed I’d made the

right decision.

The students expressed their shock and surprise in

powerful writing and thoughtful conversation. One

student wrote, “The food company didn’t show enough

information on products, so people don’t know the

truth about how the food is being made.” They under-

stood that the majority of people don’t have the real

information about the food industry, and they appreci-

ated the opportunity to learn about some important

truths through watching Food, Inc. at SCC. Another

student questioned, “As the companies get more pow-

erful, does our food get more fresh or healthy than be-

fore?” And, “The reason why unhealthy food is cheap-

er than healthy food is because the government in-

crease more fund to the company that makes them get

more profit.” They demanded that things should

change. “We need to know what medicine is in the

food. They hide it. We have a natural right to know.

A young boy died

because of a ham-

burger. It was very

shocking and sad.”

They questioned

why the government

didn’t have better

laws in place and

were outraged that

a sweet little seven-year-old should not have the

chance to grow up just because a lot of people want to

get rich. They thought that life should trump money.

They wanted the government to “make new laws to

protect us, not the companies. And if they don’t do it,

vote for another group.” Yes, we might need to find

another group!

So, thank you, Neal. I’ve now joined the ranks of so

many others who think it is an important film for all to

see.

In the column Making Waves we take a closer look at what

is going on with our faculty peers across campus. What sort of research are you working on? What unique activities are

you employing in your classroom? Got a performance coming

up? An exhibition of your work? Let Soundings know how

you are “making waves” on campus and in the community.

“Despite the difficulty of seeing some parts

of this film, . . . students expressed their

shock and surprise in powerful writing and

thoughtful conversation.”

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As a part of the One Campus, One Theme food project, The Documentary class will be screening the film

Good Food and talking with filmmakers Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young. Good Food is a celebration of locally

-grown and organic food producers in Washington state. It will make you want to hug your local farmer’s

market vendor and really, really hungry. All students, staff, and faculty are welcome to attend this event.

What: Screening of Good Food and Q & A after with local filmmakers Mark Dworkin

and Melissa Young

For more information about the film: http://goodfoodthemovie.org/

When/Where: Wednesday February 29th in the SCC Theater (1600 building). Doors

will be open at 12:30, film will start around 12:45pm.

Questions? Contact Cinema faculty member Ruth Gregory at rgregory@shoreline.edu

Screening of Good Food

and Q & A after with directors Melissa Young and Mark Dworkin

Making WavesMaking Waves

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One Campus, One Theme “Food” Outcomes

By participating in the campus wide exploration of

food issues, students will be able to demonstrate the

following:

• Demonstrate an increase in food literacy skills and knowledge (see below for food literacy defini-tion).

• Demonstrate an understanding of their course’s discipline’s methodology and purpose in relation to food and food production.

• Demonstrate an understanding of different disci-plinary approaches to analyzing food issues

• Increase engagement with communities beyond their classroom.

• Demonstrate an increase in understanding of how their course’s discipline connects to issues which impact their personal lives and the greater local and global community.

SCC’s Food Project’s definition of food literacy:

• The ability to identify the sources of our food.

• The ability to identify social, political and envi-ronmental implications of our food production.

• The ability to identify short and long term impact of food on our health.

• The ability to identify actions we can take to im-prove our health and the greater community’s health.

• The ability to access information on all food relat-ed issues.

Questions? Contact Professor of English & Service Learning Coordinator Neal Vasishth at

nvasisht@shoreline.edu.

Get Involved

With races for Governor, Senator, Attorney

General, and others this year, it's an im-

portant political year for AFT. Washington

State Labor Council recently endorsed Jay

Inslee for Governor, Maria Cantwell for Sena-

tor, and Bob Ferguson for Attorney General.

All these positions could greatly affect the

future of higher education in our state. Can

you imagine a Republican Governor (even one

with a good Irish name like McKenna:) and At-

torney General at work in our state?

One concrete thing you can do is contribute to

the AFT Committee on Political Education

(COPE) fund. COPE is a program whereby un-

ion members can contribute funds to be used

specifically to help support candidates and

causes important to education. Cope contri-

butions can occur through one-time donations

or through payroll deduction. Currently, our

local union is one of the best COPE contribu-

tors in the state—Thanks! Through payroll de-

ductions alone, our local donates over $350

per month to the COPE fund through about 25

members who donate anywhere from $5.00

per paycheck to $20 or more.

Please consider either starting or increasing

your COPE donations. An SCCFT member will

be approaching each of you within the next

month regarding COPE. With so many wealthy

and powerful interests working against us

right now to re-shape education in ways that

may not benefit students, these kinds of

ground-level efforts make a huge difference.

If you are interested in either starting COPE

donations or increasing your current donation,

or if you need to know your current monthly

donations amount, please contact Gary Parks,

AFT Local COPE/Legislative Representative,

for details and forms.

COPE Donors Needed! Gary Parks, COPE/Legislative Rep. gparks@shoreline.edu

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SCCFT Executive BoardSCCFT Executive Board

Office Officer Email Phone

President Amy J. Kinsel akinsel@shoreline.edu 206.546-4679 1st Vice President/Parliamentarian Kira L. Wennstrom kwennstrom@shoreline.edu 206.546-4578 2nd Vice President Rachel David rdavid@shoreline.edu 206.546-4760 3rd Vice President Bonnie Frunz bfrunz@shoreline.edu 206.546-6987 Secretary Elizabeth Hanson elhanson@shoreline.edu 206.546-4555 Treasurer Shannon Flynn sflynn@shoreline.edu 206.546-4705 COPE/Legislative Representative Gary Parks gparks@shoreline.edu 206.546-4785 HO/PE/BUS Rep. 1 Alison Leahy aleahy@shoreline.edu 206.546-5891 HO/PE/BUS Rep. 2 Sueanne Seegers sseegers@shoreline.edu 206.546-4710 HO/PE/BUS Rep. 3 Open Humanities Rep. 1 Ruthann Duffy rduffy@shoreline.edu 206.533-6766 Humanities Rep. 2 Dutch Henry dhenry@shoreline.edu 206.546-5807 Humanities Rep. 3 Ruth Gregory rgregory@shoreline.edu 206.546-4789 Math/Science/Auto/Mfg Rep. 1 Steve Bogart sbogart@shoreline.edu 206.546-6986 Math/Science/Auto/Mfg Rep. 2 Open SS/ES/LIB/Media Rep. 1 Betsey Barnett bbarnett@shoreline.edu 206.546-4680 SS/ESJ/LIB/Media Rep. 2 Tom Moran tmoran@shoreline.edu 206.546-4774 King County Labor Council Rep. 1 Tim Payne tpayne@shoreline.edu 206.546-4706 King County Labor Council Rep. 2 T. Sean Rody srody@shoreline.edu 206.546-6983 The following positions do not include E-Board membership: King County Labor Council Rep. 3 Jonathan Betz-Zall jbetz-zall@shoreline.edu 206.546-6939 King County Labor Council Rep. 4 Elizabeth Hanson ehanson@shoreline.edu 206.546-4555

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