Dear GCCCD Adjunct Faculty (Department Chairs please forward to your adjunct faculty email lists), I am pleased to be able to send you the process by which you can enroll in fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for coverage effective February 1, 2015....

Dear Colleagues, Our next AFT Guild Union Meeting will be held this Thursday, November 6th, beginning at 3:00pm at the Handlery Hotel and Resort, 950 Hotel Circle North, San Diego, CA 92108 in Mission Valley. We will be meeting in the Presidio Ballroom. Agenda  for...

Colleagues, You might have missed it, but next Tuesday, November 4th, is Election Day! Based on the number of mail ballots received by the Registrar of Voters thus far, it looks like we are on track for a record low turnout. Don't become part of that bad statistic! If...

Notes From the Education Wars: Marshall Tuck and the Plot Against Public Education By AFT Guild, Local 1931 Political Action VP Jim Miller After my column last week on the battle between Tom Torlakson and the corporate education reform machine backing Marshall Tuck, I...

Dear GCCCD Faculty Colleagues, Although delayed by nearly a year, I am pleased to finally share with you the terms of our 2014 Resource Allocation Formula (RAF) economic improvements. For those of you who take careful notes, recall that prior to January 2014, the...

The Most Important Race on the Ballot is the One No One is Talking About By AFT Political Action VP Jim Miller This fall in San Diego the Peters vs. DeMaio and Kim vs. Cate showdowns are getting all the attention, but my pick for the most important race on the ballot...

Dear SDCCD College Adjunct Faculty, If you have been teaching in the San Diego Community College District in the college credit program for five or more semesters, I would like to take this opportunity to remind you of an important job security benefit the union had...

Dear Faculty Colleagues, Many of you, with the best of intentions, have offered some form of extra credit to students who can demonstrate they voted in this current election.  Unfortunately, this practice is illegal. In elections in which federal candidates are on the...

Dear Colleagues, Campus Equity Week is coming up soon, October 27th-31st.  This is a great opportunity for all of us to show our support for our adjunct faculty colleagues by recognizing the excellent work that they do and joining in the fight for pay equity and...

Dear Colleagues, The Registrar of Voters will begin mailing voting materials and vote by mail ballots today.  Please find below our recommendations for non-partisan races in San Diego and Imperial Counties. You can also find this list on our website aftguild.org,...