by AFT | Oct 27, 2015 | Hot Topics
By Jim Miller with Ian Duckles Last week I had the pleasure of seeing Thomas Piketty speak on economic inequality at UCSD. In his talk, Piketty hit on the central themes of his seminal work, Capital in the Twenty-First Century: how our current level of economic...
by AFT | Oct 23, 2015 | Hot Topics
Friday, October 23, 2015 9:23 AM Dear SDCCD Faculty Colleagues, Ratification ballots for our new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) were mailed out to your home address at the end of last week. Please check your home mail and return your self-mailing ballot...
by AFT | Oct 19, 2015 | Hot Topics
October 19, 2015 by Jim Miller Recently Thomas B. Edsall penned an interesting column in the New York Times asking “How Did the Democrats Become the Favorites of the Rich?” where he observed that while the gulf between the two parties is still very wide on many social...
by AFT | Oct 15, 2015 | Hot Topics
Dear Colleagues, The October, 2015 edition of our newsletter, the Union Advantage is here and we are now going green with the newsletter, so you will no longer receive a hard copy in your mailbox. We hope you enjoy this edition! Jim
by AFT | Oct 12, 2015 | Hot Topics
Dear Colleagues, If you didn’t think we were already living in an oligarchy, think again. The union movement, despite its declining influence over the years as a result of constant attacks by the mega-rich, remains the last bastion of support for the working...
