Please announce to your students and encourage their attendance: Friday November 20th 11am to 1pm Region X Student Rally Balboa Park Presidents Way Picnic Area A United Stand Against Community College Budget Cuts……. STOP the Termination of College Education Poster...
AFT Monday Message – 11/16/09
Monday Morning Briefings: 1) What you didn't read in last week's SDCCD Board report was the fact that management attempted to slip in a docket item without going through the standard shared governance disclosure process. The docket (attached) requested the Board to...
AFT Monday Message – 11/9/09
Monday Morning Briefings: 1) The House of Representatives passed a healthcare reform bill this weekend by the narrowest of margins, 220-215 (218 needed for passage). This bill includes a public option, which AFT supports. The bill now moves to the Senate where passage...
California’s higher-education debacle
We keep hearing from more and more education leaders how the current system of taxation is killing education. When are we all going to take action? Jeff Bleich is the chairman of the Cal State University Board of Trustees and most recently served as special counsel...
Top 5 Things You Can Do With Your Extra Hour
By now you should've all turned your clocks back for the end of Daylight Saving Time. Here are the top 5 things you can do with your extra hour: Continue to follow the fast-moving healthcare debate. Thank Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He stood behind the public...
2009 Computer Loan Winners
Congratulations to all of our 2009 computer loan winners! SALAH ALENAZI ANTHONY ALFUENTE BEVERLY ARMELIN ELLIE ATKINSON JOSEPH BINTER CHANNING BOOTH KEVIN BRANSON MICHAEL BUERGER BARBARA BUTLER LORI CARVER RICHARD CASSAR RENEE DARDEN CASSIA DE ABREU MARIE ANNA DE...
AFT Monday Message – 11/2/09
Monday Morning Briefings: 1) Last Thursday's rally and march protesting cuts to education was a great success! Please visit our website, www.aftguild.org for photos, and click these links for TV news clips: http://www.cbs8.com/global/story.asp?s=11413607...
Re: Bargaining/Meet-and-Confer Units Assistance in the Budget Crisis
Dear Kim, I realize Halloween is only two days away, but attempting to scare concessions out of the employees represented by AFT is simply not going to work. Recall that at the District's insistence, we settled a three year Resource Allocation Formula which stands...
This is it!
Today is the big day for the rally and march to the Governor's office! Are we going to continue to do "more with less"? Are we going to continue to just "work a little bit harder," and "give a little bit more," while being "happy we still have a job"? Or are we going...
Don’t miss the rally and march tomorrow!
We need everyone to come on out to the rally this Thursday, October 29th at 3:00 in Balboa Park at the intersection of President's Way and Park Boulevard and let your voice be heard! If we just sit back and take it quietly, neither our interests or those of our...