by Marty Hittelman, Former CFT President Well friends, there is another big election coming up and we need to get the vote out to vote NO on the recall. As you probably know, the recall election was a result of signature gathering by a group of racist,...
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Help is On the Way: How the Biden Administration Will Help Higher Education While Increasing Economic Opportunity and Lessening Inequality
Jan 26, 2021
After four years of neglect and/or outright hostility toward American higher education, the Biden Administration promises to reverse this trend by delivering a surge of aid to American colleges and universities hard hit by the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent economic...
The News on the California Education Budget is Good . . . For Now
Jan 26, 2021
Last spring, the forecast for the California budget was gloomy to apocalyptic. With the pandemic raging seemingly endlessly, state budgets crumbling in the face of the crisis, and no significant help on the way from the Federal government for states and...
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...
AFT 1931 Resolution Supporting Progressive Tax Bills in the 2020 Legislative Session
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Labor Day in the Midst of a National Crisis: Dreaming of a Just Recovery
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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...