Solidarity Read of the Week How Black Activists Shaped the Labor Movement MLKs emphasis on supporting striking workers helped to illustrate just how firmly enmeshed the labor movement was with the greater struggle for civil rights. Click here to read the article....

Dear AFT Guild Members:   The 77th Annual Convention of the California Federation of Teachers will be held at the  Millennium Biltmore in Los Angeles commencing Friday, March 22nd, 2019 at 10:00 AM and continuing through Sunday, March 24th, 2019 until 1:00 PM....

Dear AFT Guild Members, Our first union meeting of the semester will be held this Thursday, February 7th beginning at 3:00pm at our North City Center meeting location: North City Center, 8355 Aero Dr., San Diego, 92123.  There is ample parking in the parking structure...

Dear AFT Guild Members,   The AFT is awarding eight $500 scholarships to SDCCD and GCCCD students who are union members or in a family of union members (mother, father, son, daughter, husband, wife). If you are a student, have a family member who is a student, or...

February 04 The Ohio legislature authorizes construction of the 249-mile Miami and Erie Canal, to connect Toledo to Cincinnati. Local historians say "Irish immigrants, convicts and local farmers used picks, shovels and wheelbarrows," at 30 cents per day, to construct...

Dear AFT Guild Members, Please announce the following two scholarship opportunities to any students who you think might benefit: 1)  Students for Economic Justice summer fellowship is a paid $15-an-hour intensive 6-week fulltime employment opportunity. Application is...

AFT Guild members receive tuition and book reimbursement upon successful completion of the course! Enroll Now in Labor Studies for the Spring Semester! Check out the Labor Studies Program at City College this Spring 2019! CLASS BEGINS ON JANUARY 31st REGISTRATION IS...

Dear GCCCD AFT Guild Members,   As I announced on January 16th and discussed during our professional development week presentation last week, we have reached a tentative agreement with the District on a new faculty contract which will run from January 1, 2019...

January 28   American Miners’ Association formed - 1861 First U.S. unemployment compensation law enacted, in Wisconsin - 1932 January 29 Responding to unrest among Irish laborers building the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, President Andrew Jackson orders first use of...

January 21 Some 750,000 steel workers walk out in 30 states, largest strike in U.S. history to that time - 1946 Postal workers begin four-day strike at the Jersey City, N.J., bulk and foreign mail center, protesting an involuntary shift change. The wildcat was led by...