by AFT | May 23, 2017 | Hot Topics
This Week in Labor History May 22 Eugene V. Debs imprisoned in Woodstock, Ill., for role in Pullman strike – 1895 (The Bending Cross: A Biography of Eugene V. Debs: Eugene V. Debs was a labor activist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who captured...
by AFT | May 19, 2017 | Hot Topics
Dear Colleagues, Please click on the image below for the May 2017 edition of our Union Advantage Newsletter. We hope you will enjoy it! Download version In Unity, Jim
by AFT | May 18, 2017 | Hot Topics
May is Labor History Month! As the saying goes, we all stand on the shoulders of those who struggled before us. In recognition of Labor History Month, take some time to learn about those who truly made America great: not the Carnegies and Rockefellers, but the people...
by AFT | May 15, 2017 | Hot Topics
May 15 Pope Leo XIII issues revolutionary encyclical ‘Rerum novarum’ in defense of workers and the right to organize. Forty years later to the day, Pope Pius XI issues ‘Quadragesimo anno,’ believed by many to be even more radical than Leo XIII’s...
by AFT | May 12, 2017 | Hot Topics
Dear SDCCD Faculty AFT Guild Members, Although our collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with the District does not expire until June 30, 2018, we are going to attempt something that has never been done before–actually negotiate a new CBA prior to the...
