The Part-time Faculty Association of Maine (PATFA) represents nearly 1,900 part-time faculty members teaching within the seven universities of the University of Maine System. It is affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers as Local No. 4593.
President: Michele Cheung, mjcheung@maine.rr.com
Vice President: James Seymour, Jimbo125@aol.com
Treasurer: Pam Mitchel, mitchel@maine.edu
Secretary: Tom McCord, tom.mccord@maine.edu
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.
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.
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.
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.