Monday Morning Briefings... 1) At our annual CFT Convention this weekend, we elected Josh Pechthalt as our new CFT President, succeeding Marty Hittelman who is retiring. Jeff Freitas was elected as our new Secretary-Treasurer. Our local was the first CFT local to...
Update #6: Make a Call–Save Your Job
Dear Colleagues, As of this writing, there is still no final budget deal, and no agreement to place the measure regarding the tax extension on the ballot. Thus, we need everyone (you, your students, your family members, neighbors, people you don't know...
Update #5: Make a Call–Save Your Job
Dear Colleagues, We are pretty close to the finish line as the State budget is due to be passed today or tomorrow without the inclusion of the ballot measure to extend the taxes which are due to expire June 30. But wait! There is one last thing you can do!...
Update #4: Make a Call–Save Your Job
Dear Colleagues, In case you thought I was exagerating or being overly dramatic in my previous emails regarding the gravity of our situation if the tax extension measure does not make it onto the ballot, here is Governor Brown's view of how things will play out in...
AFT Monday Morning Message – 3/14/2011
Monday Morning Briefings... 1) We realize the time change may be slowing you down a bit today, but your AFT Activism is still needed regarding the State Budget situation. Please, again, call all five legislators listed below. Simply say: "Please support the...
URGENT: Make a Call–Save Your Job
Colleagues, If you haven't already made your five calls listed below, what are you waiting for?? These are critical times we are in. We all need to get active or suffer the consequences. Here are the latest scenarios for the SDCCD: 1) Best Case: Tax Extension...
Wisconsin Senate Advances Bill Opposed by Unions
March 9, 2011 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Senate succeeded in voting Wednesday to strip nearly all collective bargaining rights from public workers, after Republicans outmaneuvered the chamber's missing Democrats and approved an...
PLEASE DISTRIBUTE THIS MESSAGE TO ALL CONTACTS IN YOUR PERSONAL EMAIL DIRECTORY
Dear Colleagues, Hopefully you have been following the State budget discussions closely, as the outcome will directly affect all of us, perhaps catastrophically, if the Governor's tax extension proposal does not make it to the ballot for a vote in June. Governor...
Tips for a great week…
1) Vote on the new Resource Allocation Formula ratification. Ballots were mailed to your home at the end of last week. Please ensure you return your self-mailing postcard ballot no later than March 5th. For more information, visit www.tinyurl.com/2011RAF 2) Attend...
The consequences of our tax cowardice
Richard Wolff and Max Fraad Wolff guardian.co.uk, Friday 28 January 2011 13.00 GMT If we permit public-sector workers to be scapegoated for state and city budget crises, we all stand to lose. Several hundred Camden, New Jersey firefighters and police officers were...