Advocacy Needed on Part-Time Faculty Measures on Office Hours and Parental Leave

This is from the Faculty Association of California Community Colleges (FACCC) FACCC-sponsored AB 310 (Medina) and FACCC co-sponsored AB 2012 (Medina) will  both be heard in the Senate Appropriations Committee on June 25. AB 310 would require community college districts to post the provision of paid part-time faculty office hours on their websites while AB […]

Add to clause 4.4.9: The AFT representative must be from a different school

Unions have had a long tradition of standing up for their members. One of the first things I learned about unions in a history class was that if a union member had to meet with their boss, their Shop Steward, as their union representative, would go with the union member to the meeting to stand […]

CollegeBuys is the place to buy software

If you need software for your computer, where do you buy it? Do you know about CollegeBuys? It sells software to Educators at unbelievable discounts. I just renewed my Adobe Creatve Cloud for $19.99 for the year. “CollegeBuys, powered by the Foundation for California Community Colleges, offers discounts of up to 85 percent on a […]

Democratize the Bargaining Committee

SDAFA presented the following resolution at the AFT Guid Meeting on October 5, 2017: Resolution to Adjust the AFT Guild Bargaining Committee for the SDCCD Faculty CBA to Be More Representative of and Open to the Membership Whereas the motto of the AFT Guild is “An Open, Active, Vital, Membership-Driven Organization”; Whereas of the approximately […]