June 11 Representatives from the AFL, Knights of Labor, populists, railroad brotherhoods and other trade unions hold a unity conference in St. Louis but fail to overcome their differences - 1894 Police shoot at maritime workers striking United Fruit Co. in New...

Dear Colleagues,   Despite all of our Herculean efforts to defeat the Governor’s wrongheaded proposals on the Online College and Performance Based Funding, both have survived to make it into the final budget.   Although both proposals have been modified...

From: Jim Mahler Subject: Adjunct Faculty Unemployment Benefits/Emergency Assistance-End of SPRING SEMESTER Date: May 24, 2017 at 9:23:26 PM PDT   Dear Adjunct Faculty AFT Members, As the spring semester comes to a close, you should be aware that you are eligible...

Dear Colleagues,   The San Francisco Chronicle picked up my Op-Ed opposing the Governor’s new community college funding formula proposal: https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Governor-s-proposed-community-college-funding-12976991.php Governor’s...

June 04 Massachusetts becomes the first state to establish a minimum wage - 1912 The House of Representatives approves the Taft-Hartley Act. The legislation allows the president of the United States to intervene in labor disputes. President Truman vetoed the law but...

Dear Colleagues,   I’m pleased to report that all eight Guild endorsed and supported Governing Board candidates placed first in yesterday’s primary election!  Our two County Board of Education candidates were outright winners, while our other six candidates all...

    Dear Colleagues,   Below please find our recommendations for the June 2018 primary election: 1)  Your AFT Guild recommendations for our local Governing Board races; 2)  Recommendations from the San Diego-Imperial Counties Labor Council on other...

Dear Colleagues,   We are down to the final 2-3 days of the budget negotiations in the Capitol!  Please take a moment of your time and make the two calls listed below.  We need large numbers of members calling in at this point.  All you need to say is:...

Election day is next Tuesday, June 5th!   Dear Colleagues,   Below please find our recommendations for the June 2018 primary election: 1)  Your AFT Guild recommendations for our local Governing Board races; 2)  Recommendations from the San Diego-Imperial...

May 28 The Ladies Shoe Binders Society formed in New York - 1835 Fifteen women were dismissed from their jobs at the Curtis Publishing Company in Philadelphia for dancing the Turkey Trot.  They were on their lunch break, but management thought the dance too racy -...