Dear Colleagues, Your union is launching an informal happy hour series of lectures entitled “Thirsty Thursdays.” Bring your friends and join us for good drink, good food, and informed discussion on the issues of the day with your colleagues. Our inaugural event of...
Friendly Reminder: AFT Guild Member Benefit – Homebuying Workshop
Dear AFT Guild Union Members, All AFT Guild members and their family members are invited to join us at our Homebuyer Workshop to learn how you can benefit from homeownership. Our Wells Fargo Home Mortgage consultants will present the fundamentals of buying and...
POSTPONED: Adjunct Full-time Contract Hiring Panel Workshop at Cuyamaca College
Dear Adjunct Faculty AFT Guild Members: Due to circumstances beyond our control, we need to re-schedule the panel workshop originally scheduled for this Friday at Cuyamaca College. Stay tuned for the new date. Our other upcoming workshops are still on the...
This Week in Labor History-October 23
This Week in Labor History October 23 President Theodore Roosevelt establishes a fact-finding commission that suspends a nine-months-long strike by Western Pennsylvania coal miners fighting for better pay, shorter workdays and union recognition. The strikers ended up...
AFT Launches “Thirsty Thursdays”
Dear Colleagues, Your union is launching an informal happy hour series of lectures entitled “Thirsty Thursdays.” Bring your friends and join us for good drink, good food, and informed discussion on the issues of the day with your colleagues. Our inaugural event of...
Back by popular demand: Organize. Resist. t-shirts!
Dear Colleagues, CFT has made its popular “Organize. Resist." t-shirts available again through a new online ordering system. You are able to order the styles and sizes you want and pay online. The t-shirts are shipped directly to you. This was announced...
AFT Guild Member Benefit – Homebuying Workshop
Dear AFT Guild Union Members, All AFT Guild members and their family members are invited to join us at our Homebuyer Workshop to learn how you can benefit from homeownership. Our Wells Fargo Home Mortgage consultants will present the fundamentals of buying and...
This Week in Labor History – October 16
This Week in Labor History October 16 Queen Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI, is beheaded during the French Revolution. When alerted that the peasants were suffering due to widespread bread shortages, lore has it that she replied, “Let them eat cake.” In fact...
Help for California Wildfires Victims
From: Randi Weingarten and Joshua Pechthalt Subject: California wildfires Date: October 15, 2017 at 12:20:36 PM PDT I’m writing from Puerto Rico, where I’m spending the weekend working with our leaders and activists from the Asociación de Maestros de Puerto...
How you can help fellow CFT members who are victims of the California fires
Dear Jim, As the tragic fires in Northern California continue to worsen, the CFT and the AFT have set up an emergency relief fund for members who have suffered catastrophic losses in the fires. Already we know that several CFT members have lost everything, while many...