SDSU College of Extended Studies course announcement

Dear AFT Guild Members,   Don't miss out.  Classes start next week!  Your AFT Guild is proud to host Are we Student-Ready?:  Supporting Students in the era of AB705.  Creating Equitable Learning Experiences Through Effective Community Building, a 2-unit course...

Museum of Tolerance Bus Trip – Deadline Extended!

Museum of Tolerance Bus Trip -  Now! download   Dear AFT Guild Members, We still have about two dozen seats left to fill our second bus, so we are extending the ticket purchase deadline to Friday, August 2nd.  You can click here to purchase your ticket online or...

This Week in Labor History: 7/15 – 7/21

July 15 Some 50,000 lumberjacks strike for 8-hour day - 1917 Ralph Gray, an African-American sharecropper and leader of the Share Croppers Union, is murdered in Camp Hill, Ala. - 1931   A half-million steelworkers begin what is to become a 116-day strike that...

This Week in Labor History: 7/8 – 7/14

July 08 First anthracite coal strike in U.S. - 1842   Labor organizer Ella Reeve "Mother" Bloor born on Staten Island, N.Y. Among her activities: investigating child labor in glass factories and mines, and working undercover in meat packing plants to verify for...

This Week in Labor History: 6/10 – 6/16

June 10 The mayor of Monroe, Mich. organizes a vigilante mob of 1,400 armed with baseball bats and teargas to break the organizing picket line of 200 striking workers at Newton Steel. The line is broken; eight are injured and hospitalized. Sixteen workers’ cars were...

Museum of Tolerance Bus Trip – Deadline Extended!

Our first bus sold out quickly, and since we have heard from many more of you who still wanted to attend, we are extending the ticket purchase deadline to Friday, August 2nd.  You can click here to purchase your ticket online or see below for details on how to send in...