Work had just started on the Fall 2020 schedule in the SDCCD when school secretaries were sent home because of the coronavirus. Faculty were busy making their way through their course materials when the call came to go into remote teaching mode. Our districts’ health services employees and counseling staffs had to figure out how [...]
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At present, it seems like there is no leadership in America. Indeed, as we watch the Trump Administration ignoring their own guidelines as White House aides get sick and the national response slides into a chaotic patchwork quilt of ineffective policies, one might just conclude that we are dealing with a tragic case of national [...]
AFT 1931 has long supported bold new political and policy initiatives that move beyond lip service to effectively address the two great issues of our age—historic economic inequality and climate change. To that end, AFT 1931 has adopted resolutions that called for the construction of more public transportation, opposed the Keystone Pipeline, supported climate literacy [...]
The Need for Change By AFT Intern Lora Mathis The fight against the climate change crisis is a fight for the future. Changes in our environment are taking place at an unprecedented rate, and they don’t call for passivity as a response. In the face of the pandemic, we are all being called to look [...]
For the last several months, a coalition of labor, community, and environmental groups have been meeting to help forge an alliance in support of a local version of the Green New Deal. In the midst of this process, we have all been hit with the COVID-19 crisis, and, as we watched the disaster capitalists seeking [...]
At present we are in the midst of the most profound health and economic crisis of our lifetimes. What good can the union do for us in times like these? A lot. As Grossmont College Professor, AFT member, and San Diego Community College District Trustee Craig Milgrim observed recently, union benefits that you may take [...]
As a result of our last several contract settlements, we have made a lot of big gains for both our classified professional and faculty members. Our AFT Guild negotiating teams worked hard to improve our working conditions on multiple fronts from safety issues, to job protections, to leaves, to pay increases and a host of [...]
