Check your check
The first month of every semester is when CCSF administration makes most of their mistakes with pay and load. Check your check!
• Instructions
• Payscales
• If you need help, contact your precinct rep.
• If your pay is incorrect, tell your chair and precinct rep immediately. Also use our form you to report the problem directly to payroll and to AFT. Go to www.aft2121.org, choose Resources, then Report Payroll Problems.
• If you have been significantly underpaid, you may be owed restitution under our new agreement. See: Pay restitution
Classrooms or igloos?
Temperatures In the Creative Arts building continue to vary wildly from sauna to, as one AFT member put it, “frozen tundra” despite repeated requests and work-orders. Counselors and Music Department faculty describe using hand warmers and carting space heaters around in order to work in these rooms.
In recent weeks AFT has been pushing for a timely solution to these issues. We’ve had some success – the heat is now on in the first floor of the Arts building, and we can hold classes without seeing our breath. But the second floor is still a freezer.
While this is progress, Administration has so far not responded to repeated requests for information, timelines, or commitments to maintain reasonable working and learning conditions.
We believe it’s time for a lasting solution and a greater sense of urgency! Students and faculty deserve to have healthy environments that are conducive to learning and working. If you and your students are affected by these sub-Saharan and arctic temperatures and you are interested in getting involved please email aft@aft2121.org.
Letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi re: Government shutdown
Today Jenny Worley, our AFT 2121 President, sent an official letter to Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives commending her for standing up against Donald Trump and his racist wall and urging her to continue to stay strong.
Join California Educators Rising’s Adopt-A-Striking-School Effort for Oakland Education Association!
Email caeducatorsrising@gmail.com with any questions.
Why:
California is 1st in the nation in wealth, 43rd in per pupil funding. Oakland Unified School District has been historically under resourced and mismanaged. Now, Oakland Education Association members are fighting back. But going on strike is hard work! OEA members are fighting for racial justice and the schools their students deserve, but they are risking a loss of pay to do so.
As supporters outside of Oakland we can materially and emotionally support our union siblings as they take this significant step forward for several thousand union members and 49,000 students. UTLA’s six day strike showed how strong internal organizing and partnerships with community can bring real wins to schools and communities in California, but there is still much to be done. Adopt-a-Striking-School help builds the rank and file educator connections across locals that will lead to a statewide network fighting for fully and progressively funded public education in California.
What:
Adopt-A-Striking-School is an effort to support striking OEA members and build connections between rank and file members of unions across California, and potentially the nation. Members of OEA sign up their school, and educators outside of Oakland sign up to support. California Educator Rising matches schools up (or adopting schools can request a specific school to adopt). The next step is for the adopting school contact to reach out to the OEA contact person, and ask what kind of support they would like. Below are some ideas.
How:
Sign up here:
- If you are an OEA member, sign up your school to receive support! https://goo.gl/forms/5YotfUQLsL0cSf3C2
If you are a school-based worker outside OEA, sign up to adopt an OEA striking school!https://goo.gl/forms/5YotfUQLsL0cSf3C2
- Fundraise/pass the hat at your union meetings, or your school’s day of actions.
Funds can be used for:
Providing lunch to students who aren’t crossing the picket line
B. Supplies for strike activities
C. Sending coffee, donuts, bullhorns, drums (whatever is needed!) to teachers on the picket line
- Email/text each other, learn about each other’s struggles and write signs directly to the other school for your #RedForEd day of actions. Share photos from your adopted school with your own staff to build solidarity at your site and share the love for Oakland!
- Teach your students about the UTLA and OEA strikes and set up a penpal system to another teachers’ classroom: Curriculum Guide
- During your schools’ union meetings, write notes of support to your adopted school and post on social media or share directly
- Become friends on social media, tag each other in your #RedForEd posts, “we stand with you”
- Send your family members and friends to the picket lines to provide direct in-person support.
- Depending on your school hours and location organize a time to join the picket yourselves!
- Collect supplies for each others’ classrooms or strike school activities
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