By Geoff Johnson, AFT VP for Adjunct Faculty, Mesa College Even before the COVID pandemic struck, approximately 33 California community college districts offered no healthcare coverage to part-time faculty. Of the remaining 39 that do, only four, including the San Diego and Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College Districts, offer full medical coverage, including dependents, and then, only [...]
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The impressive wave of labor activism we saw in the fall has continued into 2022, but, despite this, the number of workers represented by a union declined by .5% last year. More American workers have a favorable view of labor and would like to be represented by a union, yet intense corporate resistance continues to [...]
As evidenced by the hysterical stagecraft around “critical race theory” during the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Republican obsession with demonizing schools shows no sign of abating. As many have noted before, the polling on parents and schools doesn’t reflect such outrage, which is puzzling unless one considers some of [...]
Promising Wave of Union Victories “The recent, much-publicized wave of union victories in the US at companies as varied as the giant coffee chain Starbucks, trendy outdoor outfitters REI and media group the New York Times is spurring hopes that this will somehow turn into a much larger unionization wave that lifts millions of Americans. This is [...]
