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Part-time Professors Get Unemployment Advice from the Pros
May 16, 2012 RENTON, Wash. - Getting unemployment benefits can be a challenge, particularly for those in temporary jobs. This weekend, part-time college instructors are getting a short course in how and when to file for unemployment. [click here to read full story or hear audio] |
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The AFL-CIO has launched its 2012 AFL-CIO Executive Paywatch site—now called CEO Pay and the 99%—which includes the most comprehensive data available on 2011 executive pay. All the data available is searchable by industry, by state and by the top 100 highest-paid CEOs.
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AFT Seattle will begin negotiations with the SCCD on Friday, February 24th. The faculty negotiations team has been chosen, and there are plenty of opportunities to support the team. See full article for details. |
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Many studies over the years have documented the need for smoother transitions from prekindergarten to the elementary level. A new AFT report reinforces that conclusion—and does it in a manner that puts frontline voices at the heart of the dialogue.
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The citizens of Ohio took back their state with a historic vote on Nov. 8 to repeal Senate Bill 5. The vote, which marks the first time that the collective bargaining rights of public employees have been upheld on a statewide ballot, sends a clear signal that Ohioans will not sit idly by while politicians scapegoat hard-working public employees for an economic crisis they did not create.
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Your union Local AFT 1789 is launching a new campaign. Stand up for education. Stand up for our students, teachers, and community! |
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Not everybody in Seattle loves Bill Gates. “Gates wants to tell us how to teach, but I just want him to pay his fair share of taxes,” said Sandy Sioffi, a film and video instructor at Seattle Central Community College. Sioffi doesn’t want creative partnerships with corporations such as Gates’ Microsoft for her school. She wants something more substantial – tax loopholes for corporations closed. “I don’t want to hold out my hand like Oliver and say ‘Please, sir, more,’” she said in a reference to Charles Dickens’ famous orphan. “I want Microsoft to pay more than one percent in taxes.” |
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President Obama's bold plan—the American Jobs Act—is the right antidote to help solve our persistent economic problems, AFT president Randi Weingarten says.
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Two longtime union activists and education reformers are assuming new roles in AFT's leadership, AFT president Randi Weingarten announced on Sept. 9.
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Every day, educators and other public employees, and the services they provide our communities, are being attacked. From challenging collective bargaining rights, to undermining the quality of public education and higher education, to decimating pensions and trying to put healthcare coverage further out of reach, working men and women across the country are under assault. And if this has taught us one thing, it's that Elections Matter.
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In a March 28 speech sponsored by the Commonwealth Club, AFT president Randi Weingarten challenged those who have blamed public employees and their right to collectively bargain as a cause of their states' fiscal problems.
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AFT Members Will Stand Together for 'We Are One' Week of Action
Workers' fundamental rights are under attack in a growing number of states. But as we have seen in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana and elsewhere, those attacks have inspired and motivated tens of thousands of union members to stand together for their rights. The challenge now, as AFT president Randi Weingarten put it in a recent e-mail to more than 1.5 million AFT members and allies, is to take this moment and turn it into a movement. One step in that direction is a "We Are One" Week of Action, starting April 4, that will bring together members from the AFT and other unions, along with our allies, to participate in events around the country. First, take the pledge to help make a difference. Once you take the pledge, you'll see lots of ideas for how to join in the week of action.
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AFT president Randi Weingarten on Feb. 24 proposed a new way to align teacher development and evaluation to due process for tenured teachers. Weingarten laid out a three-step process consisting of clear standards for what teachers should know and be able to do, a time-limited improvement and support plan for teachers deemed to be unsatisfactory according to the evaluation standards, and a hearing process that can take no longer than 100 days, which in many cases would be even more expedient.
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On Jan. 20, 1961, John F. Kennedy captured and crystallized a moment in history when he told America, "the torch has been passed to a new generation." To mark the 50th anniversary of this landmark inaugural address, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum has created a new website filled with groundbreaking multimedia that invites young visitors to explore the JFK legacy through such core themes as public service, civil rights and innovation.
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Things to do in Seattle, Summer 2010 |
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The Heavy Cost of Militarism and War Included in this article you will find video and other materials from the US Labor Against the War http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org/ |
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Take the initiative to get children involved. Money shouldn't be returned to donating companies because we fail to apply for it.
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This article provides access to several letters written on behalf of the AFT Seattle Executive Board regarding Several Bills affecting our colleges this 2010 Legislative Session. Included: HB 2584: Due Process for Part Timers Bill HB 2684: Establishing Opportunity Centers at North Seattle HB 1340: Modifying Collective Bargaining laws SB 6503: Closing state agencies on specified dates House Bill 2634 / Senate Bill 6355: Promoting efficiencies including institutional coordination and partnerships in the community and technical college system. This is a comment letter and not sent to any legilsators |
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The State Board of Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC) has released results of a study. Specifically, the Mission Study Task Force has developed recommendations on strategies for the college system based on an understanding of the future needs of the state’s residents and strategic challenges facing the college system. Once adopted by the Board, these recommendations will set the direction for a series of action steps by the college system to implement those strategies. |
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Attached is a list of endorsements made by the M. L. King County Labor Council for the August primary election.
Please call MLKCLC Political Organizer Lily Wilson-Codega at 206-650-5503 if you have any questions about our endorsements or our endorsement process. |
The Stand
The Stand is a new website from the Washington State Labor Council which includes legislative, local, and national news as well as opinions and other information of interest to working families in Washington. Check out The Stand! |
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The Union MATTERS (initially called the ADVANCE) is our new bi-weekly publication - just one page, and supplements our Faculty VOICE |
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Our active and involved membership makes us strong! The AFT Seattle is one of the most active labor unions in King County. Our member activism builds our profession, our power and our position - in our district, and statewide. Become a member. Become an active member! |
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The AFT Seattle Community Colleges, Local 1789 represents ALL faculty in the Seattle Community Colleges. Teachers, librarians, and counselors are all faculty and all proudly represented.
We are affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers WA; the American Federation of Teachers; and the AFL-CIO. |
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Updated! The AFT Seattle has an updated Faculty Survival Guide - The links below include the guide itself, and separate pages for initial placement forms for all faculty, and initial placement steps for full time and part time faculty.
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Here is our 2007-2010 Contract
You can view the Word document by clicking on the link above. |
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Why join a Union? This Washington State Labor Council link had lots of information and notes Albert Einstein was a founding member of the Princeton faculty union - American Federation of Teachers, Local 522!
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Check out our flyer by clicking on the link!
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Photographs and illustrations, as well as text, cannot be used without permission from the AFT.