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WLAC Welcome Back Event, Shakey's, January 23rd, 2025

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 ATTENTION MEMBERS: Notice of Nomination and Elections

AFT College Staff Guild Local 1521A Elections for 2025 CFT Convention Delegates

                  The AFT Staff Guild Local 1521A is conducting elections to elect delegates to attend the CFT Convention. The CFT Convention Delegate election will be conducted district-wide using electronic voting.

Any Member in good standing may seek to run and serve as a CFT convention delegate.

 

CFT Delegate Elections:

Those elected to serve as CFT Delegate will represent AFT Staff Guild 1521

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What unions do

In AFT President Randi Weingarten’s latest New York Times  column, she describes what it is exactly that unions do. Though unions are the most popular they have been in decades, anti-union sentiment still thrives in red states and across the nation. “Several years ago, The Atlantic ran a story whose headline made even me, a labor leader, scratch my head: ‘Union Membership: Very Sexy,’” Weingarten writes in the column. “The gist was that higher wages, health benefits and job security—all associated with union membership—boost one’s chances of getting married. Belonging to a union doesn’t actually guarantee happily ever after, but it does help working people have a better life in the here and now.” Click through to read the full column.

Randi Weingarten and NYC teacher Tamara Simpson

Attacks on public education in America by extremists and culture-war peddling politicians have reached new heights (“lows” may be more apt), but they are not new. The difference today is that the attacks are intended not just to undermine public education but to destroy it.

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