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...
Shock Doctrine, U.S.A.
By PAUL KRUGMAN Here’s a thought: maybe Madison, Wis., isn’t Cairo after all. Maybe it’s Baghdad — specifically, Baghdad in 2003, when the Bush administration put Iraq under the rule of officials chosen for loyalty and political reliability rather than experience and...
Can you Adopt a Wisconsin Senator?
What your AFT Guild, Local 1931 is doing to support the Wisconsin workers and the 14 courageous Democratic Senators who have prevented the stripping of collective bargaining rights for public sector employees: 1) We wrote to each of the 14 Democratic Senators (click...
Spreading Anti-Union Agenda
February 22, 2011 Like a wind-whipped brush fire, the mass union protests that began in Madison, Wis., last week have spread to the capitals of Ohio and Indiana where Republican lawmakers also are trying to cripple the bargaining power of unions — and ultimately...
Wisconsin Power Play
By PAUL KRUGMAN Last week, in the face of protest demonstrations against Wisconsin’s new union-busting governor, Scott Walker — demonstrations that continued through the weekend, with huge crowds on Saturday — Representative Paul Ryan made an unintentionally apt...
How the middle class became the underclass
Annalyn Censky, staff reporter, On Wednesday February 16, 2011, 4:30 pm EST Are you better off than your parents? Probably not if you're in the middle class. Incomes for 90% of Americans have been stuck in neutral, and it's not just because of the Great Recession....
AFT Everyday Heroes Award
Colleagues, AFT Local 1931’s Jim Miller, our VP of Political Action/Community Outreach, was nominated to be an AFT Everyday Hero and he made it into the finals! Please click on the link on the bottom of this email to vote for him. Voting goes from...
AFT Mesa College Site Liaison Meeting this Thursday
Dear Mesa College AFT Members, With the advent of the new decade, we are starting twice per semester AFT site meetings at each campus. Our goal is to establish a permanent AFT liaison council at each campus, with one contract faculty member and one adjunct faculty...
2011 CFT Convention
Dear AFT Guild Members: The 69th Annual Convention of the California Federation of Teachers will be held at the Manhattan Beach Marriot commencing Friday, March 18th, 2011 at 10:00 AM and continuing through Sunday, March 20th, 2011 until 1:00 PM. All AFT Guild members...
Message to Send to Your Students
Dear Faculty Colleagues, As you are inundated with student requests to add your classes, you may want to consider sending the message below to all of your students, or using this text as a permanent out of office reply on your email. (Thanks to Lyn Neylon at Cuyamaca...