October 01 An ink storage room in the L.A. Times building is dynamited during a citywide fight over labor rights and organizing. The explosion was relatively minor, but it set off a fire in the unsafe, difficult-to-evacuate building, ultimately killing 21. A union...
This Week in Labor History: 9/17 – 9/23
September 17 Seventy-five workers die in explosion at Allegheny Arsenal, Pittsburgh, Pa. - 1862 At a New York convention of the National Labor Congress, Susan B. Anthony calls for the formation of a Working Women's Association. As a delegate to the Congress, she...
Is your student loan serviced by Navient?
If so, please see the message below from CFT President Josh Pechthalt: Begin forwarded message: From: Joshua Pechthalt <jpechthalt@cft.org> Subject: Help in identifying plaintiffs for student loan lawsuit Date: September 10, 2018 at 11:40:01 AM PDT ...
AFT Racial/Police Safety Committee
Dear AFT Guild Members, Two years ago our AFT Guild formed a task force to address the issues of racial equity for the safety of our students, members of the community, and law enforcement. The committee has been chaired by Pegah Motaleb, AFT Guild Executive...
Rise for Climate March, this Saturday,September 8th at 10:00 AM at San Diego Civic Center
Dear Colleagues, As part of your Union's Climate Justice work, your AFT Guild is a co-sponser of the Rise for Climate March this Saturday, September 8th at 10:00 AM at the San Diego Civic Center at 202 C Street. We invite you to join your fellow AFT members...
This Week in Labor History: 9/3 – 9/9
September 03 African-American cotton pickers organize and strike in Lee County, Texas, against miserably low wages and other injustices, including a growers’ arrangement with local law enforcement to round up Blacks on vagrancy charges, then force them to work off...
Lessons for Labor Day 2018: Solidarity Works!
It has been the worst of times and the best of times for the American Labor Movement in 2018. Economic inequality has continued to spiral out of control as policy coming out of Washington, DC designed to tilt the scales in favor of the rich and corporations weakened...
Wages of Inequality Keep Growing
Only Working People's Power Can Save Our Democracy August 27, 2018 by Jim Miller The March of the Weavers-Käthe_Kollwitz, 1897. Image via Wikipedia It shouldn’t be news to readers of the SD Free Press that life here under the perfect sun isn’t always so easy,...
SDCCD Faculty Negotiations Underway
Dear SDCCD Faculty Colleagues, We just wanted to let you all know that we began our negotiations with the District for our new union contract yesterday. Not much to report as we spent the entire time reviewing our proposal and answering questions the District...
This Week in Labor History: 8/27 – 9/2
August 27 Some 14,000 Chicago teachers who have gone without pay for several months finally collect about $1,400 each - 1934 President Truman orders the U.S. Army to seize all the nation's railroads to prevent a general strike. The railroads were not returned to...