It’s been a difficult, stressful period for most of us dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic for more than a year now. We’ve learned new skills, done emergency professional development to address our dramatically transformed work landscapes, tried to be there for...
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Key California Budget and Legislative Updates
After months of foreboding that the California state budget would be a nightmare filled with cuts for our schools and colleges due to revenue loss during the pandemic, things turned around quite dramatically. Unforeseen revenue came in as a result of Proposition...
On the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis: CFT Co-Sponsor’s Report on how a Bold Clean Energy Transition in California is Possible
In recent weeks, the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its most alarming report yet on the climate crisis. The UN Secretary General hailed it as a “code red for humanity” in that it outlined how the dire effects of continued...
Big Issues In Brief: “Critical Race Theory,” Labor after Trumka, and the Odds of Stopping Climate Catastrophe
VOX: Conservatives have appropriated critical race theory as a convenient catchall to describe basically any serious attempt to teach the history of race and racism. It’s now a prop in the never-ending culture war, where caricature and bad faith can muddy the waters....
Union Workers Saw Less Job Loss in 2020 Pandemic Year
A new report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) documents that while unionization rates have continued to decline, “union workers have seen less job loss than non-union workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.” As the EPI analysis outlines: “Where workers have been...
Help is On the Way: How the Biden Administration Will Help Higher Education While Increasing Economic Opportunity and Lessening Inequality
After four years of neglect and/or outright hostility toward American higher education, the Biden Administration promises to reverse this trend by delivering a surge of aid to American colleges and universities hard hit by the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent economic...
The News on the California Education Budget is Good . . . For Now
Last spring, the forecast for the California budget was gloomy to apocalyptic. With the pandemic raging seemingly endlessly, state budgets crumbling in the face of the crisis, and no significant help on the way from the Federal government for states and...
California Democrats Need to Do the Right Thing, Call a Special Session on Revenue, and Tax the Über Rich to Avoid Catastrophic Cuts to Education and Vital Social Services
The COVID-19 crisis and subsequent economic collapse along with the national uprising against police brutality and systemic racism have cast a glaring light on the nature of American inequality on the healthcare, criminal justice, and economic fronts. It has never...
AFT 1931 Resolution Supporting Progressive Tax Bills in the 2020 Legislative Session
Whereas, the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the wealth inequality that has existed in the State of California by not only forcing millions of Californians into the unemployment line, but also allowing the ultra-wealthy to collect pandemic profits in the stock...
Labor Day in the Midst of a National Crisis: Dreaming of a Just Recovery
This weekend we celebrate Labor Day, but how many of us have any idea where the holiday came from or what it celebrates? The first Labor Day was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5th, 1882 in New York City and was proposed by the Central Labor Union (CLU) at a time...
