Preparations for Negotiations

Colleagues, As you have already seen as a result of the ill-advised state budget that was passed, our District is due to receive approximately 2.0% in growth funding, and a whopping 0.68% COLA.  (Yes, the decimal is in the right place there, that’s a COLA of...

Cancel: AFT 9/26 Presidential Debate Survey

Regrettably, I must cancel what was intended to be an interesting survey, due to the fact that someone has decided to “spam” the survey with several hundred duplicate responses. Jim Begin forwarded message: From: Jim Mahler <aftjim@pacbell.net>...

California budget agreement was no compromise

Marty Hittelman Wednesday, September 24, 2008 The governor has signed a budget for the state that does nothing to support the long-term stability of vital California services. Such an unfortunate and shortsighted budget deal is the result of Republican intransigence...