Could you please take the time to  download this letter (which is a template) asking Governor Brown to sign the bill and send it to

CFT c/o Debra Burruss

1107 Ninth Street, Suite 460

Sacramento, CA  95814

or email it to Debra at dburruss@cft.org

You’ve got to check this out!!!

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/a-subprime-education/

The AFT Convention was held in Minneapolis, Minnesota. There were 2654 delegates in attendance representing 784,851 total election votes with 467 locals in attendance including Citrus College Adjunct Faculty Federation and 24 state federations. Some of the highlights include Randi Weingarten’s state of the union speech, speeches from U. S. Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton, Minnesota Senator Al Franken, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchner, Minnesota Governor Mark Dalton, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Congressman Keith Ellison and Rashad Robinson. Complete speeches can be found at http://www.aft.org/aft-convention-2016.
AFT celebrated its centennial and had speeches in memory of the last one hundred years. AFT former executive vice president and Secretary-treasurer Nat LaCour recalls the issues and challenges of unionization of teachers in the south during the 1960’s and 1970’s. AFT Contingent Caucus member Jennie Shanker recalls memories of her father Albert Shanker who was the first to be nominated for president of the United Federation of Teachers and is a founder of AFT in a generation to generation theme. Richard Kahlenberg who wrote Albert Shanker’s biography commented that the AFT stands between public education and the trade union movement. Francine Lawrence president of the Toledo Federation of Teachers and AFT’s former executive vice president talked about the transformation of the union when collective bargaining came into being. Ninety-eight year old Beatrice Lumpkin recalls her 83 years of union activism as peace, unity and struggle. AFT Secretary-treasurer Loretta Johnson talked about traveling with Al Shanker to learn about labor in other parts of the world. Former AFT President Edward McElroy reminisces about how the AFT pushed for collective bargaining. Our own CFT vice-president Robert Chacanaca who is a member of the AFT Task Force on Professionalism talked about working conditions and asking for an end to the exploitation of part-time workers.
Forty-five resolutions passed including resolutions on condemning the repression of teachers in Turkey, support for the Mexican teachers’ civil rights, resolution against deportation, pushing back on the global movement to privatize education and public services, an attack on economic inequality, racial equality and justice, immigration and islamophobia putting an end to out-of-control prescription drug prices, safe schools, student loans and debts, reining in abusive medical billing practices and debt, and for contingent labor; a resolution for a legislative initiative to rectify unfair and detrimental employment practices in higher education. The complete list of resolutions and their content can be found at http://www.aft.org/aft-convention-2016.
We re-elected Randi Weingarten as President, Mary Cathryn Ricker as Executive Vice-President and Loretta Johnson as Secretary-Treasurer. There were 43 vice presidents elected of which six are new first time vice-presidents.
Daily synopsis can be found in the downloadable “afterwords” newsletter at http://www.aft.org/aft-convention-2016.

Campus Equity Week at Citrus College, Glendora, California

CAMPUS Equity Week

October 26 – 30  2015

Thank you for visiting our table on campus

Click and Read about Who Is Professor Staff.pdf, Helping Adjuncts with Student Debt.pdf and Faculty Matter.pdf

Check out a film by Brave New Films called ” Professors in Poverty”

See the new 3 minute video  “Robert Reich on why CA should close a dangerous corporate tax loophole”.  Click here

See the video “Union Fair Share Fees Explained” Click here

The California Community Colleges Registry is a large scale database containing the names, qualifications and desired position(s) of potential California Community College (CCC) faculty, support staff and management job applicants. The database is utilized by the 72 CCC Human Resources offices, representing the 109 California Community Colleges. This web site provides a number of services for individuals seeking employment as a faculty, support staff or manager at a California Community College. Currently, there are 1155 open jobs in the CCC Registry
https://www.cccregistry.org/

Job opening at Citrus — click this link

UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS

If you have not been given an assignment (or your assignments have been much reduced during the coming months), you have a right to apply for unemployment insurance benefits. The state budget crisis has resulted in colleges, (including Citrus College), cutting class sections. Part-time faculty who lose some or all of their assignments may be eligible to collect unemployment benefits. You can apply online at www.edd.ca.gov or by phone at (800) 300-5616. Our recommendation is that you don’t bother with phone applications. The numbers of unemployed seeking benefits is extremely high, clogging the phone line and making your successful contact improbable.

Adjuncts are considered “temporary” employees who work without contracts and are not guaranteed continued employment.  If you are not offered an assignment or if your workload is reduced, you can file for unemployment benefits.  The EDD will determine whether you qualify. Continue reading →