This Week in Labor History September 25 American photographer Lewis Hine born in Oshkosh, Wisc. - 1874 (Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor: Your heart will be broken by this exceptional book’s photographs of children at backbreaking, often...

Dear Colleagues,   Have you or anyone you know ever considered serving on a Board or a Commission? Come join us on Thursday, September 21st at our Boards and Commissions Leadership Institute (BCLI) information session. The information session is an opportunity to...

This Week in Labor History September 18 The Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) is formally founded at an Ohio convention, during a period of serious corruption in the union. Two years earlier at an IBT convention in Las Vegas, a union reform leader who...

Dear Faculty and Classified Staff Colleagues,   Your AFT Guild has created a professional development course through SDSU College of Extended Studies for Guild members.  The details are below.  You may enroll for TWO UNITS, which may be used for salary...

Dennis, As you know, Hurricane Irma hit Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Florida in the last few days, and its unprecedented wind and rain caused flooding, damaged homes and schools, and left millions without power—and the storm is not yet over. Our leaders...

  This Week in Labor History September 11 Some 75,000 coal miners in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia end a 10-week strike after winning an 8-hour day, semi-monthly pay, and the abolition of overpriced company-owned stores, where they had been forced to shop....

Call Your Reps to vote NO on AB 726 & AB 813 Climate Warriors, We need your help today! SDG&E engaged in last-minute backroom dealmaking to freeze our energy freedom and deny families the choice of their energy provider. Our friends at Center for Climate...

Dear Colleagues, I am informed by the national AFT office that there is no local capacity in Houston to distribute or store clothes or other types of hard goods.  They do have a need for school supplies, but they prefer cash donations which you can send by clicking...

Dear Colleagues, As I am sure you are well aware, last Tuesday the President decided to make the cruel and heartless decision to eliminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that protects more than 800,000 young, undocumented immigrants brought...

Dear Colleagues,   Have you been wondering how you can help the people that have been negatively impacted by Hurricane Harvey?  How about we put together a care package with donated items from all of us and send it to the relief efforts in the City of Houston!...