1) Majority Vote Initiative Petitions Due Thursday What the initiative does: It reduces the requirement from the current 2/3 vote to a simple majority vote to pass the state budget. If passed, this would reduce the months of gridlock we currently encounter in enacting...
AFT Monday Message – 4/5/10
Monday Morning Briefings... 1) Our next AFT Guild Union Meeting will be held this Thursday, April 8th, from 3:00-4:30 at: The DoubleTree Hotel in Mission Valley 7450 Hazard Center Drive San Diego, CA 92108 ph: 619-297-5466 Our meeting will be held in the Brickstones...
Wednesday Capitol Actions
Check out this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbM1-SWGKd4 and the op-ed piece below regarding our activities in the Capitol on Wednesday. Trek to Capitol in bid to bring state back from brink Special to The Bee Published Tuesday, Apr. 20, 2010 By Marty...
Don’t Swat the Kids
Jim Miller English and Labor Studies instructor, San Diego City College Posted: March 25, 2010 11:32 AM Although the vast majority of responses to the March for California's Future have been positive, there have been a few folks who were less than sanguine about our...
AFT Monday Message – 3/22/10
1) Do Your Part To Help End The Budget Crisis In California! Year after year our state continues its downward spiral-financial crisis, gridlock and the deterioration of our public services: schools, parks, health care, public safety, assistance for the poor, elderly...
March 20 Labor Council Dinner
AFT Members, We still have some seats available for this year's Labor Council dinner. http://unionyes.org/node/807 If you are interested in attending, please reply to this email. You can bring a guest as well. The No Host Reception begins at 6:00, Dinner is at 7:00....
AFT Monday Message – 3/15/10
1) Circulate Petitions for the Majority Budget Act The focus of our statewide advocacy work for the next several weeks will be to qualify the Majority Budget Act for the November 2010 ballot. CFT is working in a coalition with other public sector unions to put this...
Unexpected Marcher
Something amazing happened on our marchers' way to McFarland. The walk so far had been kind of quiet. Very few cars. All of a sudden a car pulls over to the side of the road. A woman hops out and starts to put on an "I AM MARCHING" t-shirt. For what happened next,...
Marchers Embark Following Successful Kickoff
Faculty, Staff, Students, Friends, and Community Members turned out in force on both March 4th and March 5th in support of continued funding for public education. March 4th activities began with "Teach-outs" and "Teach-ins" at virtually every campus of both the SDCCD...
The Time to March for California’s Future Is Now
Posted: March 2, 2010 04:41 PM Marty Hittelman is the president of the California Federation of Teachers. It is no longer enough to say that "Sacramento politics is dysfunctional," or that the political and legislative processes in the Capitol are stymied by "partisan...