Through the AFT Plus Member Benefit program, a credit counseling program is available to help AFT members become debt-free, learn new money management skills and save for the future. This program, offered by the nation's largest and most trusted nonprofit consumer...
SIGN THE PETITION TO STOP PRIVATIZATION OF SOCIAL SECURITY
AFT members are invited to sign an online petition opposing any efforts to privatize Social Security. The petition, sponsored by the AFL-CIO, will be submitted to your representative and senators in Congress, with a copy to President Bush. The AFT believes that the...
Unionists Challenge Schwarzenegger During Fundraising Tour
Before Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger could fall into the warm embrace of his pharmaceutical industry friends at the upscale St. Regis Hotel in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, he had to pass through a lunchtime picket line of angry union members. Two hundred labor...
Update to “Attacks on our profession”
Many thanks to the strong AFT sisters Tina Fletcher, Yadira Rosas, Carmen Espinoza, Lou Carver, and Lou Ann Gibson for running the all male signature gatherers off the Mesa College Campus! They said they were going to Wal-Mart instead! You too can do this, wherever...
Countering the Attacks on Our Profession
Colleagues, Yesterday while at Mesa College I encountered paid signature gatherers near the I-400 building collecting signatures from students for the initiatives that would take away our pensions, remove our voice from the political process, redistrict the state so...
WHAT’S BEHIND THE SCHWARZENEGGER REFORM AGENDA AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR US
by AFT Political Action VP Jim Miller “We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship” – Grover Norquist On February 10th, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger rolled into San Diego and staged a speech in an...