Parking regulations Everett Community College members swamped an Aug. 4 administrative hearing on the college's proposed new parking regulations. This is simply a means of arbitrarily raising fees without respect or justification for doing so. It does not indicate to me an effort to bargain in good faith. That opposition by Phipps and other members paid off. The original proposal didn't have that protection.
Members say there's still some murkiness about some of the language in the new parking rules.
But they're encouraged by the changes they won to protect their ability to negotiate parking fees and other traffic issues. But a key concern was losing students to other nearby colleges because of parking fees at the college. The fight over the parking WAC rules took more than a year, but highlighted a glaring mistake the college had made after it adopted the old rules in 1969. But at least since 1977, the college has been charging more than that. And now the Local 1020 members want the extra money they forked out in parking fees paid back.