Nomination deadline this Friday, March 18 for your AFT 2121 Leadership Elections
It’s time to participate in your union elections. The election will be held April 18-29. The votes will be tallied electronically. Please be sure that our union has your current email address.
Nominate yourself or a colleague. Serving as a precinct rep or officer is a tremendous way to help build the voice and power of our union. Deadline for nomination forms is Friday March 18. Nominations may also be made at the General Membership Meeting on March 22, 3-5pm, held remotely. To make a nomination:
- Consult the list of eligible members by last name or the list of eligible members by precinct number and find out who is eligible to run for leadership. Dues-paying union members in good standing are eligible for nomination (with the exception of department chairs/managers for any positions other than Labor Council Delegate).
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There is a separate list of AFT 2121 members eligible to run for affiliation positions including Labor Council and AFT Delegate, which includes Department Chairs.
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If you believe that your name has been omitted from any of these lists in error, please contact AFT 2121 at aft@aft2121.org.
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Complete the Nomination Form for Officers, Executive Board, AFT Delegate & Labor Council Delegate
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Complete the Precinct Rep Nomination Form
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This election cycle we also elect delegates for the San Francisco Labor Council and for the AFT National Convention (to be held July 14-17 in Boston). AFT 2121 usually is able to pay the travel costs of some delegates but not all. Nominations are accepted either through this nomination form or from the floor during the General Membership Meeting on March 22, held remotely from 3-5pm.
You will find full election information, including additional election forms and an election calendar at: www.aft2121.org/elections
AFT 2121 Retiree Chapter honored by CFT for AFT 2121 50th Anniversary Oral History Project
By Bill Shields
Janitors organize live onstage, in multiple languages. A domestic worker ponders the meaning of life as she mimes ironing clothes. Dancing hotel workers tell how they won a good contract. These stories emerged from an oral history project called Work Tales produced by the Labor and Community Studies Department at City College of San Francisco. I spent 25 years teaching in this department. Read more…
AFT 2121 Retired Faculty Andy Chan wrote this song about stopping the layoff threat.
Everything old is new again: Vurdien still works for the District
Last May, faculty voted to take massive one-year pay cuts to save our programs. Immediately afterward, then-chancellor Rajen Vurdien proposed raising his own salary by 23%. Facing the prospects of massive protest and terrible press, our board of trustees pulled the proposal, and Vurdien left the college.
Or so it seemed. It turns out that our board has continued to employ Vurdien as an advisor. Here is his contract with the college from 11/1/21 to 6/20/22. Each month he is paid $2,500 for 10 hours of work, with the option to make extra money for additional hours. The total contract is for $25,000. This is the man who pursued a raise for himself while saying the school should “learn to live within its means”, and discussed shrinking City College to 180 full-time faculty. Compare that to the 487 FT faculty working right now to get a sense of the scale of downsizing he was contemplating.
We call on our elected board of trustees to immediately terminate this contract. We understand that $25,000 is not much compared to the overall college budget. Yet it represents easily two or three classes this semester. It is shameful to direct that money to a man who took his direction from the state instead of the community, and has clearly stated his position that our college should shrink.
Here is the text of the contract, with the signatures removed:
AFT National Disaster Relief Fund
The AFT Disaster Relief Fund is used throughout the year to provide support to members and communities directly impacted by a natural or man-made disaster. In the past this has included losses from hurricanes, wildfires flooding and earthquakes.
The fund is now coordinating with the teachers unions in countries that border Ukraine, including Poland, Romania and Slovakia. They’re setting up welcome programs in public schools for children fleeing the war in Ukraine. Teachers and school staff just want to help these kids feel safe and welcome.
Every dollar that we raise goes straight to relief efforts, without AFT taking any overhead fees. Any money you can give today to the relief effort will directly help efforts to support the refugees.
Please click: https://www.aft.org/disaster-relief-fund
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