by realize | Mar 20, 2013 | Hot Topics
Climate change is real, and it is threatening all our futures. On March 7, 2013 our union, AFT Guild, Local 1931, unanimously endorsed a resolution calling for CalSTRS and CalPERS to divest from fossil fuels. The California Federation of Teachers endorsed the...
by realize | Mar 19, 2013 | Hot Topics
Colleagues, CFT committees play a crucial role in the development and implementation of CFT policy. Committee members are chosen from all segments of the CFT from pre-school to the University of California. Committee members are appointed for...
by realize | Mar 14, 2013 | Hot Topics
Dear Colleagues, Your AFT and the California Federation of Teachers are deeply concerned about CA State Senator Steinberg’s proposal (see UT article below) to thrust mass online learning onto public higher education institutions. This development is troubling because...
by realize | Mar 12, 2013 | Hot Topics
Colleagues, We have several seats available for you and a guest at this Saturday’s annual Labor Council Awards Dinner. Seats will be given away on a first-to-call, first-served basis by calling the AFT office at 619-640-1155. Flier available The event will be...
by realize | Mar 4, 2013 | Hot Topics
February 18, 2013 New York Times Stanford University ratcheted up interest in online education when a pair of celebrity professors attracted more than 150,000 students from around the world to a noncredit, open enrollment course on artificial intelligence. This...