Dear Colleagues, Below is the introduction by our AFT national leadership on AFT’s recent report on Racial Equity in Education, Economics, and our Criminal Justice System. Although lengthy, I hope you will take the time to read this important report concerning the...

Dear Colleagues, YOU’RE INVITED to join us tomorrow for a brief rally at 3:00 PM at City College and a march to the Civic Center to demand economic justice for all.  Our communities and our families need and deserve our support! As we continue our...

Dear SDCCD Faculty Colleagues, I am pleased to report that our new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) was ratified with 94% (741) voting "For Ratification," and 6% (47) voting “Against Ratification.” Many thanks to all of you who exercised your right...

Dear Colleagues, Our next AFT Guild Union Meeting will be held this Thursday, November 5th, beginning at 3:00pm at the Handlery Hotel and Resort, 950 Hotel Circle North, San Diego, CA 92108 in Mission Valley.  We will be meeting in...

Dear Colleagues, As we continue our work to raise awareness about the need for part-time faculty equity in higher education, we also stand by our students, many of whom are low-wage part-time workers, and the community we serve, in the fight for economic justice for...

  Friday, October 30, 2015 4:51 PM Dear SDCCD College Adjunct Faculty, If you have already qualified for health benefits, beginning next week is your opportunity to add or delete dependents from your health coverage. If you haven’t already qualified for...

Dear Colleagues, We are San Diego area teachers--Jim Guerin (King Chavez schools), Henri Jourdain (SUHSD), John Tidwell (union representative for Darnell Charter school), and Andrea Sperling (SDCCD)—and we are sponsoring a November fundraising event for presidential...

By Jim Miller with Ian Duckles  Last week I had the pleasure of seeing Thomas Piketty speak on economic inequality at UCSD. In his talk, Piketty hit on the central themes of his seminal work, Capital in the Twenty-First Century: how our current level of economic...

Friday, October 23, 2015 9:23 AM Dear SDCCD Faculty Colleagues, Ratification ballots for our new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) were mailed out to your home address at the end of last week.  Please check your home mail and return your self-mailing ballot...

October 19, 2015 by Jim Miller Recently Thomas B. Edsall penned an interesting column in the New York Times asking “How Did the Democrats Become the Favorites of the Rich?” where he observed that while the gulf between the two parties is still very wide on many social...