9% Raise & Retro Payment Next Week | Vote for Pro-City College Candidates | Summer Labor Internships for Students

Posted on January 26, 2024 by AFT 2121

Check your Check! 9% Raise & Retro Pay in Your January Check

Next week in your January paycheck, the 9% raise we approved in our recent tentative agreement will be implemented, and you will also receive a retro payment for this new salary dated back to July 1st of 2023. This is what collective power and working together feels like. For further details on your new contract, see our contract toolkit on the aft 2121 homepage: https://www.aft2121.org/

Vote for & Help Elect Pro-City College Candidates this Weekend

You may have already received your ballot for San Francisco’s March 5 election. It’s essential that you vote for pro-City College leaders for San Francisco’s Democratic County Central Committee (DCCC), a key body for setting the political tone of our city.

We need local leaders who understand the value of our work, our college, and our students. For more info on pro-public ed candidates and causes, enter your address here: https://www.cft.yourvoter.guide/#/search

And this weekend, join your colleagues and neighbors this Saturday and Sunday throughout the city to help elect pro-City College candidates to office. Trustees Vick Chung and Anita Martinez, and former EOPS Counseling Chair Adolfo Velasquez, are some of our endorsed candidates running, and we’ll be distributing campaign literature on doors to help them win. This is essential work for ensuring our students and college get the support they deserve.

Student Opportunity: Summer Labor Internship

We’ve all witnessed the growing resurgence of the labor movement and the power of collective action to achieve fair wages and productive working conditions.

The San Francisco Labor Council and the UC Berkeley Labor Center are sponsoring summer internship opportunities for students to train to become the next generation of labor and community leaders.

This eight-week paid internship will place participants at a labor organization in addition to providing training. Community college applicants must be rising graduates (aka on track to graduate from community college next spring). The program is open to all students at a college or university in the United States.

Please pass this opportunity along to students in your classrooms and other students in your life who may be interested!

The deadline to apply is February 9th. Program dates are June 17th-August 9th, 2024.