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The CFT is continuously involved in campaigns: organizing, political, legislative, and collective bargaining campaigns. The CFT works in campaign coalitions at the state level, and actively supports its locals in ongoing efforts to preserve, protect, and support public education. Because the success of local collective bargaining depends on the political and legislative environment, CFT joins with other education groups, unions, and community organizations to advance our common interests in the very best education and social services that our state can provide to its residents. |
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Fight for California's Future |
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If the state of California is going to have a viable future, we must reform the way government is run, and reverse the massive redistribution of wealth upwards that has taken place over the past thirty years. After years of budget cuts, California now ranks close to the bottom in almost any measure of how well we support public education and the other basic services of our state. We cannot afford to cut our state programs any more. That's why CFT initiated the Fight for California's Future, an open-ended campaign to educate the public about the real problems facing the state, and the only real solutions that will fix them.
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State Budget Battle |
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Although a state budget was signed in October, the state budget crisis is far from over. If we wish California to fulfill its residents’ dreams for public wellbeing, we need four things. We should return to open government budget deliberations, so that the public and important constituencies’ voices may be heard. We must rewrite the constitutional requirements for two-thirds votes for taxes into the democratic norm of majority rule. We have to redistribute the resources of the richest state in the richest country in the world through fair tax policies that ask the wealthy and the corporations to do their proper share of helping. And we must rethink our priorities, so that what is the best for the most becomes the golden rule for the golden state.
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Employee Free Choice Act |
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 Salvador Sanchez, Political Science instructor at several Los Angeles area colleges, participated with his students in a 10-mile EFCA march in the rain on February 5. Our students need this law
Why we should care about the Employee Free Choice Act
Why should we care that pro-labor members of congress are poised to introduce the Employee Free Choice Act, and that employer groups are fighting it as if it signals “the demise of a civilization” (actual words of Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus)? What does reform of private sector labor law have to do with public education?
The Employee Free Choice Act would allow workers to replace outdated National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) election procedures stacked in favor of employers with a fair democratic process, and provide stiffer penalties for rampant employer lawbreaking. It would also bring in a neutral arbiter to impose a first contract if the employer stalls for three months. The Employee Free Choice Act would be the first major revision of national labor law in forty years, and the first pro-worker reforms since the NLRA was passed in 1935.
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