From: Jim Mahler <aftjim@mac.com> Subject: AFT/GCCCD Settlement Reached! Date: May 20, 2024 at 7:38:23 AM PDT To: Grossmont Faculty <GrossmontFaculty@gcccd.edu>, Cuyamaca Faculty <CuyamacaFaculty@gcccd.edu> Dear AFT Guild GCCCD Members, I’m pleased...
District Proposes Increasing Class Sizes/Assigned Time for Non-Classroom Faculty
From: Jim Mahler <aftjim@mac.com> Subject: District Proposes Increasing Class Sizes/Assigned Time for Non-Classroom Faculty Date: May 10, 2024 at 8:15:22 AM PDT To: Grossmont Faculty <GrossmontFaculty@gcccd.edu>, Cuyamaca Faculty...
Upcoming AFT Lunch & Learns: Join for webinars on attacks on DEI, responding to targeted harassment
As the semester comes to a close, we want to be sure you have the following virtual Lunch & Learns on your calendar. We hope you can join! May 23: Lunch & Learn | Faculty First Responders Faculty First Responders monitors extremist media coverage of higher...
The Jumping-Off Place: AFT Guild Member Voices
Dear AFT Guild Members, Earlier this semester I sent you an announcement of the launch of the Substack, The Jumping-Off Place: Politics, Labor, Culture, San Diego which has been growing steadily over the last three months since its inception in March. Over that...
Join the AFT Guild Artificial Intelligence Sub-Committee!
Dear AFT Guild Members, Generative Artificial Intelligence has already dramatically transformed Higher Education and things are only getting started. Furthermore, administrators from the state on down are actively pushing AI as the solution to a variety of problems....
AFT National Convention, July 22-25, 2024
Dear AFT Guild Members: The 88th Biennial Convention of the American Federation of Teachers will be held at the at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas, commencing Monday, July 22nd and continuing through Thursday, July 25th, 2024. All AFT Guild...
Opinion: May Day still has significance to our workforce in San Diego. Here’s how.
By Jim Miller Community voices contributor April 30, 2024 3:10 PM PT Miller is a local author, professor at San Diego City College, and vice president for the American Federation of Teachers, Local 1931. He lives in Golden Hill. May 1 is International Workers’ Day, a...
AFT Guild Union Meeting this Thursday, May 2nd – César Chávez Campus
Dear AFT Guild Members, Our last Union meeting of this academic year will be held this Thursday, May 2nd, beginning at 3:00pm on the rooftop of the César Chávez Campus. The address is 1901 Main Street and there are two levels of parking inside the building. It’s a...
The Ghosts of American Labor’s Radical Past Speak Volumes About Our Future
Jumping-Off Place Launch Celebration and Screening of American Socialist: The Life and Times of Eugene Debs, Sunday, May 5th at 4:00 at the Digital Gym By AFT Guild Political Action VP Jim Miller This coming Sunday, May 5th at 4 PM, the Jumping-Off Place will...