Dear AFT Guild Union Members,   All AFT Guild members and their family members are invited to join us at our Homebuyer Workshop to learn how you can benefit from homeownership. Our Wells Fargo Home Mortgage consultants will present the fundamentals of buying and...

This Week in Labor History October 16 Queen Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI, is beheaded during the French Revolution.   When alerted that the peasants were suffering due to widespread bread shortages, lore has it that she replied, “Let them eat cake.”  In fact...

From: Randi Weingarten and Joshua Pechthalt Subject: California wildfires Date: October 15, 2017 at 12:20:36 PM PDT   I’m writing from Puerto Rico, where I’m spending the weekend working with our leaders and activists from the Asociación de Maestros de Puerto...

Dear Jim, As the tragic fires in Northern California continue to worsen, the CFT and the AFT have set up an emergency relief fund for members who have suffered catastrophic losses in the fires. Already we know that several CFT members have lost everything, while many...

This Week in Labor History October 09 United Hebrew Trades is organized in New York by shirt maker Morris Hillquit and others. Hillquit would later become leader of the Socialist Party - 1888Retail stock brokerage Smith Barney reaches a tentative sexual harassment...

Dear AFT Guild Members,   Last fall 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 task force has been chaired by Pegah Motaleb, AFT Guild Executive...

This Week in Labor History October 02 American Federation of Labor officially endorses campaign for a 6-hour day, 5-day workweek - 1934 Joining with 400,000 coal miners already on strike, 500,000 CIO steel workers close down the nation’s foundries, steel and iron...

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Dear Colleagues,   Please click on the link below for the September 2017 edition of our Union Advantage Newsletter. We hope you will enjoy it! In Unity, Jim AFT Guild Newsletter September 2017