by AFT | Sep 5, 2018 | Hot Topics
Dear Colleagues, As part of your Union’s Climate Justice work, your AFT Guild is a co-sponser of the Rise for Climate March this Saturday, September 8th at 10:00 AM at the San Diego Civic Center at 202 C Street. We invite you to join your fellow AFT...
by AFT | Sep 3, 2018 | Hot Topics
September 03 African-American cotton pickers organize and strike in Lee County, Texas, against miserably low wages and other injustices, including a growers’ arrangement with local law enforcement to round up Blacks on vagrancy charges, then force them to work off...
by AFT | Aug 31, 2018 | Hot Topics, News
It has been the worst of times and the best of times for the American Labor Movement in 2018. Economic inequality has continued to spiral out of control as policy coming out of Washington, DC designed to tilt the scales in favor of the rich and corporations weakened...
by AFT | Aug 29, 2018 | Hot Topics, News
Only Working People’s Power Can Save Our Democracy August 27, 2018 by Jim Miller The March of the Weavers-Käthe_Kollwitz, 1897. Image via Wikipedia It shouldn’t be news to readers of the SD Free Press that life here under the perfect sun isn’t always so easy,...
by AFT | Aug 28, 2018 | Hot Topics
Dear SDCCD Faculty Colleagues, We just wanted to let you all know that we began our negotiations with the District for our new union contract yesterday. Not much to report as we spent the entire time reviewing our proposal and answering questions the District...