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...
Open Enrollment Begins Sunday / November 1st – November 15th
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...
Bernie Sanders Fundraising Event 11/7
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...
Inequality for All in America’s Higher Education System
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...
Please VOTE on New Collective Bargaining Agreement
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...
Bad News Not Reported: The Drift Toward Global Plutocracy Continues Unabated
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...
AFT Guild Newsletter, October 2015
Dear Colleagues, The October, 2015 edition of our newsletter, the Union Advantage is here and we are now going green with the newsletter, so you will no longer receive a hard copy in your mailbox. We hope you enjoy this edition! Jim
Special Report: Just 158 families gave nearly half the early money in the presidential race. We reveal who they are.
Dear Colleagues, If you didn’t think we were already living in an oligarchy, think again. The union movement, despite its declining influence over the years as a result of constant attacks by the mega-rich, remains the last bastion of support for the working...
Facts about Priority of Assignment (POA) (10/08/2015)
Dear SDCCD Adjunct Faculty Colleagues, There has been a lot of misinformation sent on the email DL lately from a handful of adjunct faculty regarding what the Priority of Assignment (POA) language in the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) can or can’t do for...
AFT Computer Loan Winners – 2015
Monday, October 05, 2015 3:52 PM Congratulations to all of our SDCCD AFT Computer Loan Winners! We had 136 applicants and 84 lucky winners. (With a 62% chance of winning, those are way better odds than winning the Lottery!) If your name is listed below, you...