Over the last couple of years, AFT 1931 members have heard a lot about the effort to get the Schools and Communities First measure on the ballot in California this November 3rd. Indeed, AFT Local 1931 members and students from the San Diego and Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College Districts led the way and collected more signatures [...]

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California Democrats Need to Do the Right Thing, Call a Special Session on Revenue, and Tax the Über Rich to Avoid Catastrophic Cuts to Education and Vital Social Services
Sep 17, 2020
The COVID-19 crisis and subsequent economic collapse along with the national uprising against police brutality and systemic racism have cast a glaring light on the nature of American inequality on the healthcare, criminal justice, and economic fronts. It has never been clearer that as most Americans struggle, the elite thrive. As a Forbes piece put [...]
AFT 1931 Resolution Supporting Progressive Tax Bills in the 2020 Legislative Session
Sep 17, 2020
Whereas, the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the wealth inequality that has existed in the State of California by not only forcing millions of Californians into the unemployment line, but also allowing the ultra-wealthy to collect pandemic profits in the stock market rebound; and Whereas, 14.9% of Californians are currently unemployed, with a majority of job [...]
Labor Day in the Midst of a National Crisis: Dreaming of a Just Recovery
Sep 17, 2020
This weekend we celebrate Labor Day, but how many of us have any idea where the holiday came from or what it celebrates? The first Labor Day was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5th, 1882 in New York City and was proposed by the Central Labor Union (CLU) at a time when American workers were struggling [...]
The American Federation of Teachers Lays Out a Bold Vision of a Just Recovery with a Green New Deal
Sep 17, 2020
What should post COVID-19 crisis America look like? This summer your national union, the American Federation of Teachers, was thinking big at its biennial convention in late July. Clearly, the activist spirit sweeping the country was in the (virtual) air. Building on some of the work we have done here in San Diego along with [...]
AFT 1931 Stands Committed to Fight for Racial Justice on Our Campuses and in Our Community
Sep 17, 2020
In the immediate aftermath of the George Floyd murder, we shared the National AFT and CFT statements of outrage and solidarity with the protests against police brutality. We are pleased that the statewide body of which we are a part has clearly stood with the Black Lives Matter movement and is committed to not just [...]
The War on the Public Sector is On and We are in the Crosshairs
May 11, 2020
The battle is on in earnest. Recently, Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell said it out loud: drop dead blue states—and public sector workers in particularly. More specifically, McConnell took a strong stand against providing any more financial relief to devastated states and local governments in the midst of a pandemic that has caused the biggest [...]