Union Agenda April 2021 Dear AFT Guild Members, Our next AFT Guild meeting will be held this Thursday, April 8th beginning at 3:00pm via Zoom (see connection details below). Attached is the tentative agenda for this Thursday's meeting. Please let me know if you have any items you would like to see added to the agenda. Looking […]
PRESENTER Doug Orr, Chair, CFT Retirement Policy Committee What’s the difference between “defined benefit,” “defined contribution,” and “cash balance” retirement plans? What does CalSTRS offer? What about Social Security, the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP), and the Government Pension Offset (GPO)? What are traditional IRAs, self-directed IRA’s, 403(b) plans, 457 plans, and Roth versions of these […]
Dear AFT Guild Members, Care workers–like nurses, teachers, social workers, domestic workers, etc.–have historically been at the forefront of movements for social justice, although they are seldom given that credit. This three part series will focus on movements of care workers that exemplify how structural disadvantage can be used to leverage collective power and dismantle structures of social inequity. This Friday, April 9th, […]
PRESENTERS Elaine Merriweather, Chair, CFT Civil, Human, and Women’s Rights Committee Nancy Smith, Member, CFT Civil, Human, and Women’s Rights Committee The past year has been an extremely stressful one for all of us. Stress can have severe impacts on our health and well-being, and we often haven’t learned healthy ways to cope. Controlling one’s […]
PRESENTER Wendy Cabrera, CalSTRS Are you ready to get serious about understanding your retirement? This interactive workshop is designed to give you all the tools you need to calculate your retirement. You will also learn about important topics like the CalSTRS’ hybrid retirement system, survivor benefits, your retirement gap, and steps to increase your retirement […]
PRESENTERS Betty Robinson-Harris, Chair, Early Childhood Education Committee Gloria Garcia, President, Early Childhood Federation Berta Harris, Member, AFT Guild, San Diego and Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community Colleges Maria Huitron, Treasurer, Early Childhood Federation Describe, discuss, and identify best practices for young children during distance learning. Panelists will talk about their experiences educating young children through distance learning. […]
PRESENTERS FROM CALPERS TO BE ANNOUNCED Are you ready to get serious about understanding your retirement? This interactive workshop is designed to give you all the tools you need to calculate your retirement in CalPERS. You will also learn about important topics like the CalPERS’ survivor and death benefits, steps to increase your retirement income, […]
PRESENTER Stephanie White, Member, Los Angeles College Faculty Guild This workshop will review the history of homelessness, the impact of homelessness in our schools, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on homelessness. About our webinars When you register to attend a Zoom training webinar, you will receive email confirmation of your registration directly from […]
PRESENTER Wendy San Juan, Vice President, Pajaro Valley Federation of Teachers Like in in the show Home Edit, this school year required clearing, reinventing, organizing, purging, and rebuilding. We learned that in order to care for our students we had to care for ourselves first. What adjustments will be needed to return to school? In […]
Dear AFT Guild Members, Our last AFT Guild meeting of this academic year will be held this Thursday, May 6th beginning at 3:00pm via Zoom (see connection details below). Attached is the tentative agenda for this Thursday's meeting. Please let me know if you have any items you would like to see added to the agenda. Looking […]