When CFT President Jeff Freitas spoke at the press conference with Alex Lee, he clearly explained why our statewide union is supporting the Wealth Tax, ““CFT is proud to support AB 259 and ACA 3,” said CFT President Jeff Freitas. “Billionaires and mega-millionaires...
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Lessons from the Picket Line at UC: Young Workers Offer Hope
Toward the end of last semester, the academic workers at the University of California went on strike for week demanding a significant improvement in their pay and benefits and, by most accounts, the wound up with a very successful settlement while it fell short of...
San Diego Janitors Strike for Basic Rights in their Workplace
It was a gorgeously crisp, sunny day down by the harbor last Thursday as a yacht cruised on the glistening water and joggers made their way along the embarcadero. A handful of tourists were milling about near the Star of India while others headed toward the...
Reproductive Rights are Worker Rights
January 22nd was what would have been the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade had the Supreme Court not recently overturned that landmark decision. Hence the anniversary was marked across the country by marches and rallies by both advocates for women’s reproductive...
In Brief: Railroad Strike, Warehouse Worker Ordinance, Nurses Strike, Supreme Court Ruling on Right to Strike
In Brief Unions Unhappy with Biden Imposition of Settlement Preventing Railroad Strike “Union leaders are unhappy that Biden’s solution appears to be the imposition of a settlement reached in September that has already been rejected by many for failing to address...
The Labor Movement Still Holds the Key to a Better Future in America
The costs of America’s historic level of economic inequality have been growing for decades and no one has more comprehensively addressed this phenomenon than economist Thomas Piketty, who, in a recent New York Times interview, expressed optimism at the potential for...
The Growing Rightwing Attacks on K-12 Educators Are Supercharging the National Teacher Shortage
Last fall, after Virginia turned to the right when the Republicans weaponized educational culture war issues, the vast majority of the mainstream coverage reveled in the horserace analysis but never engaged in any deeper examination of how we got to a place where...
In Brief: Notes from the War on Public Education
“And now, in 2022, we are in a new educational moment. Between January 2021 and January 2022, the legislatures of 35 states introduced 137 bills to keep students from learning about issues of race, LBGTQ+ issues, politics, and American history. More recently, the...
The Moment is Ripe for American Labor
The impressive wave of labor activism we saw in the fall has continued into 2022, but, despite this, the number of workers represented by a union declined by .5% last year. More American workers have a favorable view of labor and would like to be represented by a...
Dispatches from the Education Wars: Solidarity Not Meritocracy Is the Answer
As evidenced by the hysterical stagecraft around “critical race theory” during the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Republican obsession with demonizing schools shows no sign of abating. As many have noted before, the polling...
