WOUFT Listening Sessions

In preparation for bargaining, WOUFT Executive Council is holding listening sessions with NTT faculty and chairs.

The WOUFT Executive Council invites all faculty, NTT and TT, to attend any of the following listening sessions so that we can better understand your needs and priorities as we go into bargaining. You do not have to be a member of WOUFT to attend these sessions!


October 12: 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
October 25: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
November 17: 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm


All listening sessions are held on Zoom. Please contact Melanie Landon-Hays, WOUFT President, for access.


As a bargaining team, a primary focus of our deep dive into the contract is to look for places of inequity and lack of transparency that we might fix in the upcoming bargaining session. Your insights could be helpful. As you know, bargaining is a negotiation with administration, and we aren’t promised we will get our “asks” when we bargain so we won’t provide false hope, but we will provide real hope that conscientious conversations that are well considered do make a difference in bargaining to move our contract forward.

WOUFT Fall General Membership Meeting

WOUFT will hold its fall membership meeting via Zoom from 3:30-5:00 on Thursday, October 12th.

The first portion of the meeting is open to all and will include:

  • Introduce Union leadership and our goals for the year
  • Invitation to new members, restructuring steward program for Winter
  • New website features and updates
  • Update on faculty listening sessions
  • Update on working with AFT-Oregon and our political focus
  • Introduce interest based bargaining
  • Audit progress

There will also be members-only updates on political donations and TRU advocacy.

We look forward to seeing you!