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...
2017-18 Final Budget Act
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...
This Week in Labor History-July 17
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...
This Week in Labor History June 19 – June 24
June 19 Eight-hour work day adopted for federal employees - 1912 AFL President Sam Gompers and Secretary of War Newton Baker sign an agreement establishing a three-member board of adjustment to control wages, hours and working conditions for construction workers...
6/17 at 2pm: Bi-national U.S.-Mexico Labor Meeting
Cross-Border Labor Solidarity in the Age of Trump Saturday, June 17th at 2 pm A delegation of labor unionists and activists from across Mexico will be joining with labor unionists and community activists from San Diego. The purpose of this historic bi-national...
AFT Mail Driver Position Opening
Dear AFT Guild Members, A job opportunity as the AFT mail delivery driver is now open due to our long term driver Mike Norris’s retirement. This job involves picking up AFT Guild mail (fliers, newsletters, minutes, new member packets, etc.) from the AFT office...
This Week in Labor History- Week of June 12
June 12 Fifty thousand members of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen employed in meatpacking plants walk off their jobs; demands include equalization of wages and conditions throughout U.S. plants - 1904 (No Contract, No Peace: A Legal Guide to Contract...
Lafer Lecture on Charter Schools
This Week in Labor History – Week of June 5th
June 05 Thirty-five members of the Teamsters, concerned about the infiltration of organized crime in the union and other issues, meet in Cleveland to form Teamsters for a Democratic Union - 1976 A strike begins at a General Motors Corp. parts factory in Flint, Mich.,...
Immigrant Worker Rights & Defense Training
Trainings are co-sponsored by the California Labor Federation and Central Labor Councils listed in partnership with attorneys from the Weinberg, Roger and Rosenfeld law firm. We invite all unions and Immigrant Worker Rights allies to join us. Registration opens 9...