Doris Warmflash
Doris Warmflash is the current treasurer of the WCCFT. She has one two-year term under her belt and is starting her second term this year. Doris’ official title within her county department is Professor although she has served as an acting department chair and other roles similar to that. Additionally, she is the ECE liaison for business, accounting, and all the high schools via ECE (Early College Experience). She has been working with the ECE since 2007.
Prior to coming to WCC, she worked at Berkeley College. Away from the teaching sector, she gained her vast experience working for Deloitte, worked at an accounting firm on wall street for some time, and lastly, she worked at a family business for a number of years. Doris has been working at WCC since 2001. While here she also held a senate position representing the accounting department for about 20 years. She was also the senate treasurer before she became the union treasurer.
What truly draws Doris to leadership roles is her need for things to be done as she knows they should be. She feels that with such a role comes the power to influence certain outcomes which are important to her. Something she’s learned from being a treasurer of the union that she wasn’t as familiar with prior is learning about all of the faculty members, who they are, what they do, and what role they play.
She explains the many roles of the union treasurer which are: looking at the deductions, making sure they are correct, making sure the bank gets payment from the college, she has to submit payments to NYSUT, she works on the budget, and she makes sure officers and faculty are paid. She would describe the role of treasurer basically as accounting. In her next term, she will now be a member of the negotiating team which is a new role for her although she is familiar with many other members. One of her main reasons for getting involved in the union in the first place is because she felt some of those on the negotiating team weren’t doing right by all of the faculty. Her intent as an older faculty member is to ensure the junior faculty get what they need to survive in Westchester County. She wants to ensure representation for junior faculty members and adjuncts within negotiations as these people typically have it the worst in terms of pay and what is expected of them. She expressed that although her parents, holocaust survivors, didn’t have the best experience with unions, she recognizes the importance of unions and they are part of why she got involved. Her mission and goal is to make things equitable.
