This Week in Labor History August 21 Slave revolt led by Nat Turner begins in Southampton County, Va. - 1831 August 22 Five flight attendants form the Air Line Stewardesses Association, the first labor union representing flight attendants. They were reacting to an...

This Week in Labor History August 14 President Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, providing, for the first time ever, guaranteed income for retirees and creating a system of unemployment benefits - 1935 Members of the upstart Polish union Solidarity seize the...

Dear SDCCD City, Mesa, and Miramar College Adjunct Faculty, In case you were not yet aware of this program, your union negotiated a paid office hour program available for college adjunct faculty who choose to participate.  The program was initiated in 2002, and only...

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Wobbly organizer, born - 1890Eugene Debs and three other trade unionists arrested after Pullman Strike - 1894 Actors Equity is recognized by producers after stagehands honor their picket lines, shutting down almost every professional stage...

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE         August 7, 2017 Contact:  Fred Glass, 510-579-3343, fglass@cft.org   CFT reaches settlement with accrediting agency “Fair accreditation practices will be the norm going forward”   San Francisco—In an...

This Week in Labor History July 31 Members of the National Football League Players Association begin what is to be a 2-day strike, their first. The issues: pay, pensions, the right to arbitration and the right to have agents - 1970 Fifty-day baseball strike ends -...

Arm Yourself for the Resistance! Take Labor Studies this Fall at City College! THIS CLASS STARTS AUGUST 22nd! Labor Studies 108: Labor and Politics Tuesday evenings 6:55-10:00 CRN 74663 Instructor: Jim Miller AFT 1931 Political Action/Community Outreach VP   Come...

July 24 The United Auto Workers and the Teamsters form the Alliance for Labor Action (ALA), later to be joined by several smaller unions. The ALA's agenda included support of the civil rights movement and opposition to the war in Vietnam. It disbanded after four years...

Thursday, July 20, 2017 10:40 AM Dear SDCCD Colleagues, Below are the details of the final Statewide budget as signed by the Governor.   Thanks to our collective efforts, Community Colleges will receive a $270 million increase this year… bringing our total increase...

  July 17 Two ammunition ships explode at Port Chicago, Calif., killing 322, including 202 African-Americans assigned by the Navy to handle explosives. It was the worst home-front disaster of World War II. The resulting refusal of 258 African-Americans to return...