AFT Monday Message – 9/20/10

Monday Morning Briefings... 1) Member to Member Phone Bankers Still Needed Do your part to help us ensure victory on November 2nd!  We only ask for a few hours of your time, and we are only calling our own members to make sure everyone knows what's at stake on...

Student Intern with the San Diego Labor Council

Faculty, Please announce to your students: Intern with the San Diego Labor Council The Labor Council has internship openings for motivated individuals interested in the labor movement, political campaigns, and policy.  Internships are part-time and unpaid but you may...

AFT Monday Message – 9/13/10

Monday Morning Briefings... 1) Still no state budget: time for Proposition 25 The state budget is now nearly thirteen weeks late.  You can read all the usual headlines about how Sacramento is "dysfunctional" and suffering "gridlock."  These descriptions...

Member to Member Phone Bank Volunteers

Hello Friends, Over the past year or so many of you have volunteered to help out in the Fight for California's Future, come out for a rally or to the march. Now it's time to take the next step and help us reach out to our fellow AFT members about Propositions 24, 25,...

What Labor Day Means for Us

As we celebrate this year’s Labor Day, we should stop for a moment and remember where our rights as public employees came from.  Unlike many workers in the private sector who can look back to the New Deal era for the birth of their right to unionize, public sector...