Dear AFT Guild Members,   Last fall our AFT Guild formed a task force to address the issues of racial equity for the safety of our students, members of the community, and law enforcement. The task force has been chaired by Pegah Motaleb, AFT Guild Executive...

This Week in Labor History October 02 American Federation of Labor officially endorses campaign for a 6-hour day, 5-day workweek - 1934 Joining with 400,000 coal miners already on strike, 500,000 CIO steel workers close down the nation’s foundries, steel and iron...

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Dear Colleagues,   Please click on the link below for the September 2017 edition of our Union Advantage Newsletter. We hope you will enjoy it! In Unity, Jim AFT Guild Newsletter September 2017

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...