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Posted on June 2, 2020 by AFT 2121

(6/2, 1-3:30pm) COPE meeting on Board of Trustees endorsements

On Tuesday, 6/2 at 1pm all American Federation of Teachers 2121 members are invited to participate in our most important COPE meeting of 2020.

To attend go to https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89979524095?pwd=U1RHMVB3UmR3VG53QnVzVENXd0UrQT09 OR call 1-669-900-6833 and follow the prompts to enter the Meeting ID: 899 7952 4095 and Password: 634378.

Join us as we hear from candidates for the City College Board of Trustees running for office in the November 2020 election. New candidates are Aliyah Cristi and Anita Martinez. Incumbents Tom Temprano and Shanell Williams have asked our union for consideration. As faculty and students fight to save our college, it is critical that we endorse accountable leaders. All AFT 2121 members may vote at our COPE meetings. We only consider candidates who have asked for our endorsement, and completed our questionnaire.

Candidate statements will be recorded and made available for members to listen to up until June 30th. Because of the special importance of this endorsement, members can vote electronically throughout the month of June. Links to cast a vote and view the recorded statements will be sent out to members following the COPE Meeting. We will announce our endorsements on July 1, 2020.

Support Full-Time Faculty Position in AFAM Studies at CCSF!

In this time of pandemic, we must remain especially vigilant in uniting and advocating for our colleagues and students of color. One of the goals of the Affirmative Action Task Force of AFT2121 is to restore a full-time position in the African American Studies department. In lieu of an in-person protest or gathering, we are asking folks to virtually organize to show their support.

Please take a moment to post, and share this with your students and colleagues.

You can access (and share) the page by:

Visiting https://tinyurl.com/yajbznmm
Embedding it in a Canvas page or announcement by pasting in this code to the html editor:

Adding this QR code to a document or online for people to scan with their phone’s camera

(6/6) Educators phone bank/virtual mobilization for Jackie Fielder with AFT 2121 and Sup. Hillary Ronen

This Saturday June 6th at 11:30am let’s hit the phones and spread the word for the champion teachers and families need in our state legislature. Jackie’s endorsed by CTA, UESF, and AFT 2121 because she is committed to fighting austerity, pledging as our representative to reject any education budget cuts.

Sign up at www.jackieforsenate.com/phonebank for Saturday! Once you’ve signed up you’ll receive a Zoom link and all the materials you’ll need to call voters. On Saturday the 6th we’ll join Jackie in a zoom room for a rally, brief training, and round of phone banking. Expect the training, rally and list of calls to take 2 hours at most.

CTE Survey Results

In April 2020, our members in CTE engaged in a survey to assess their concerns about cuts and the move to remote instruction. CCSF trains many of San Francisco’s essential workers through our CTE programs. As 80,000 San Francisco residents applied for unemployment benefits in April 2020, hearing from CTE faculty about their ability to re-train and place San Francisco residents on paths to re-employment was a priority. Kathleen White developed the survey and presents the results here.

(6/4, 2-3:30pm) Special General Membership Meeting, Thursday, June 4th, 2pm.

All AFT 2121 members are invited to join our next Special General Membership meeting this Thursday, June 4th at 2pm focused on the District’s Wage Freeze Proposal. Members are encouraged to review the wage freeze discussion notes from May 18 and May 22 to inform Thursday’s discussion.

To attend go to https://tinyurl.com/y9h2lds6 OR call 1-669-900-6833 and follow the prompts to enter the Meeting ID: 885 4283 3638 and Password: 568165.

Agenda:

Update on bargaining and budget
Discussion to identify major concerns and potential solutions
If needed: vote on proposed wage freeze

Asynchronous, Zoom-free SURVEY
Please help craft our response to the District about concessions and COVID-19: SURVEY FOR AFT 2121 FACULTY: WAGE FREEZE PROPOSAL / COVID-19

(6/4, 8/3) Skill Share series continues with Health Insurance 101

Join colleagues for followup skillshares on health insurance:

Thursday, June 4, at 10am
To attend go to https://tinyurl.com/ycmpua7m OR call 1-669-900-6833 and follow the prompts to enter the Meeting ID: 897 0760 4246 and Password: 790876.

Save the date: Monday, August 3, at 10am

The presentation from the recent Skill Share on applying for unemployment insurance has been posted to the Unemployment resources page of the AFT 2121 website. Scroll down to the bottom: https://www.aft2121.org/unemployment/

(6/11, 1-4pm) Defending Public Higher Education in the time of COVID: A Union Conference

On Thursday, 6/11, from 1-4 pm Higher Educators United will offer a webinar conference on how higher education unions are responding to the pandemic and proposed budget and pay cuts. There will be presentations and discussions with union activists from the CCC, CSU and UC systems, who will share ways to organize to protect our jobs, safe working conditions, and the quality of public higher education as well as share what they are doing on the ground. There will be break-out sessions on a range of relevant topics from educational, racial, and gender justice to the fight against the onlineficatlon and privatization of public higher education.