Ratification Voting: GCCCD Faculty-New Union Contract!

Dear GCCCD AFT Guild Members,   As I announced on January 16th and discussed during our professional development week presentation last week, we have reached a tentative agreement with the District on a new faculty contract which will run from January 1, 2019...

This Week in Labor History: 1/28 – 2/3

January 28   American Miners’ Association formed – 1861 First U.S. unemployment compensation law enacted, in Wisconsin – 1932 January 29 Responding to unrest among Irish laborers building the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, President Andrew Jackson orders...

This Week in Labor History: 1/21 – 1/27

January 21 Some 750,000 steel workers walk out in 30 states, largest strike in U.S. history to that time – 1946 Postal workers begin four-day strike at the Jersey City, N.J., bulk and foreign mail center, protesting an involuntary shift change. The wildcat was...