Campaigns Print E-mail
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.
 
Fight for California's Future Print E-mail
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If the state of California is going to have a viable future, we must reform the way government is run.  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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March 4 Events near you Print E-mail

This is a partial list.  Check with your AFT local for other activities, and with the California Faculty Association for events on all CSU campuses. Most K-12 school districts are leafletting before school, but some are having after school activities.  If you know of  events not listed here, email the CFT communications office with the details and we will post them.  CFT media contact:  Fred Glass, 510-579-3343

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Regional Events


Los Angeles Regional Rally


• 3 pm Rally @ Pershing Square (5th & Hill) in downtown L.A.


• 4 pm March from Pershing Square to the Governor’s office


• 5 pm Rally @ Governor’s office (300 Spring St.)


East Bay/Oakland Regional Rally


• 12 pm-4 pm Rally @ Frank Ogawa Plaza (in front of Oakland City Hall, 14th & Broadway)

• March to the Ogawa Plaza Rally from:


• UC Berkeley: 12 pm Rally @ Bancroft & Telegraph, followed by March


• Laney College: 11 am Rally, followed by March


• -Fruitvale BART: Assemble @ 11 am, March @ 11:30 am


• Travel to San Francisco Regional Rally (See regional listing below)

 

Orange County Regional Rally

 

4 - 6 pm, Costa Mesa High School, Fairview Road


San Francisco Regional Rally


• 5 pm Rally @ San Francisco Civic Center


Sacramento/State Capitol Rally


• 11 am-1 pm Rally @ State Capitol (North Steps of Capitol)


San Diego Regional Rally


• 3 pm Rally @ Balboa Park, followed by March to governor’s office


• 4 pm Rally @ Governor’s office (downtown)


San Fernando Valley Regional Rally


• 3:45 pm gathering @ CSU Northridge Sierra Quad


• 4:15 pm March


• 5 pm Hands around CSUN


• 5:30 pm Rally @ CSU Northridge Sierra Quad


Santa Cruz Regional Rally
• Downtown rally at town clock, Pacific and Water Streets, 4-5 pm


UC Events


UC Berkeley


• 7 am-12 pm Pickets


• 12 pm-1 pm Rally/Action @ entrance to Sproul Plaza (Telegraph & Bancroft)


• 1 pm-3 pm March from UC Berkeley to Oakland’s Ogawa Plaza


• Students, faculty, workers and campus community will travel to San Francisco Regional Rally (See regional listing above)

 

UC Irvine

 

• 12 pm Rally at the Flagpole next to the Aldrich Administration Building
   UC-AFT Rally speakers:  Brook Haley, Lecturer, Amy DePaul, Lecturer, Mitchell Brown, Librarian

 

• 5 pm Discussion Panel, location TBA
   UC-AFT panelists: Mitchell Brown, Librarian, and Peg Hesketh, Lecturer


UCLA


• 10 am Pickets


• 11:30 am Walk Out


• 12 pm Rally @ Bruin Plaza

 

• 4:30 Rally


UC San Diego


• 11:30 Walk-out & Rally @ Gilman Parking Structure


• 12:30 pm March from Gilman to the Silent Tree outside Giesel Library and Rally there


• Students, faculty, workers and campus community will travel to San Diego Regional Rally (See regional listing above)


UC Santa Cruz


• 6:00 am Picket at the entrances to campus


• 9:00 am Rally @ main entrance to the campus (Bay and High)


• 12:00 pm Rally @ main entrance to the campus (Bay and High)


• 5:00 pm General Assembly @ main entrance to campus (Bay and High)


UC Riverside


• 1 pm gathering @ UCR Bell Tower


• 2:30 pm March from UCR to downtown


• 3:30 pm Rally @ University Ave and Market St. (Downtown Riverside)
 


CSU Events


CSU Bakersfield


• 11:30 am-1 pm @ the Student Union Patio (rain: Stockdale Room in Runner Café)


CSU Channel Islands


• Students, faculty, workers and campus community will travel to the San Fernando Valley to participate in San Fernando Valley Regional Rally @ CSU Northridge (See regional listing above)


CSU Chico


• 8 am sendoff for students, faculty, workers and campus community traveling to State Capital Rally (See regional listing above)


CSU Dominguez Hills


• Students, faculty, workers and campus community will travel to Wilson High School Long Beach and Los Angeles Regional Rally (See Long Beach details below or regional listing above)


• 11 am-1 pm students hold a fair on CSUDH East Walkway (Games to learn about public education costs, access and quality)


CSU East Bay


• 12 pm Rally/Open Mic/Speack Out @ Agora Stage


• Students, faculty, workers and campus community will travel to San Francisco Regional Rally (See regional listing above)


Fresno State


• 10:30 am March from NW corner of Blackstone and Shaw, go down Shaw to Fresno State


• 12 pm-1 pm Rally @ Peace Garden


CSU Fullerton


• Students, faculty, workers and campus community will travel to Los Angeles Regional Rally (See regional listing above)


Humboldt State


• 3 pm-5 pm Rally @ Humboldt County Courthouse-Eureka with CSU and K-12 faculty and students


Cal State Los Angeles


• 9:30 am Rally @ the USU area (Free Speech area)


• 2 pm March to Los Angeles Regional Rally (See regional listing above)


CSU Long Beach


• 12 pm-1 pm Rally @ South Campus, Upper Quad,


• 1 pm-2 pm Parade


• 4 pm Rally with K-12 and Community College (see below)


Long Beach: Wilson High School


• 4 pm Rally @ Wilson High School Gymnasium (4400 E. 10th St.)


• Music by Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, The Nightwatchman)


California Maritime Academy


• Students, faculty, workers and campus community will travel to San Francisco Regional Rally and Sacramento/State Capitol Rally (See regional listing above)


• 12 pm Street Theatre/Mock “Die-In” @ Maritime’s main quad


CSU Monterey Bay


• 11 am-1 pm Rally/March


• Followed by car-pools to Community Rally


• 4 pm Community Rally @ Colton Hall (570 Pacific St. between Madison & Jefferson)


- Contact: Kat General, 415-728-8927


CSU Northridge/San Fernando Valley Regional Rally


• 3:45 pm gather @ CSU Northridge Sierra Quad


• 4:15 pm March


• 5 pm Hands around CSUN


• 5:30 pm Rally @ CSU Northridge Sierra Quad


Cal Poly Pomona


• 1:30 pm- 2:30 pm Send off Rally @ - as CFA members, students and campus community board buses for Los Angeles Regional Rally (See regional listing above)


Sacramento State/Sacramento/State Capitol Rally


• 11 am-1 pm Rally @ State Capitol (North Steps of Capitol)


- Contact: Kevin Wehr, 916-541-2125


CSU San Bernardino


• 11:30 am March @ Marquee entrance (NW corner of University Pkwy and Northpark Blvd)


• 12 pm Rally @ Pfau Library


San Diego State/San Diego Regional Rally


• 11:30 am-12:00 pm collect video testimonials from students and campus community next to Aztec Center (Large “scoreboard” showing the loss of students, teachers and classes at SDSU due to budget cuts)


• 12:00 pm Rally by Aztec Center


• Students, faculty, workers and campus community will travel to San Diego Regional Rally (See regional listing above)


San Francisco Sate


• 7 am Campus Shutdown


• Students, faculty, workers and campus community will travel to San Francisco Regional Rally (See regional listing above)


San Jose State


• 11 am gather at San Jose City Hall


• 11:45 am March to San Jose State Tower Lawn (7th Street Plaza entrance)


• 12 pm Rally @ San Jose State Tower Lawn


Cal Poly San Luis Obispo


• 3:30–5 pm Rally @ Office of state Senator Abel Maldonado (1356 Marsh St., San Luis Obispo)


CSU San Marcos


• 10:30 am-11:30 am Teach-in on State Budget @ Academic Hall (ACD) 102 (simulcast to other classrooms)


• 12 pm-1 pm Rally @ Kellogg Library


Sonoma State


• 11:30 am Student Walk Out


• 12:00 pm-1:30 pm Rally near Stevenson Quad


CSU Stanislaus


• 11:30 am-1pm Rally @ campus Quad

 

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State Budget Battle Print E-mail

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Although a state budget was signed in February, 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 and budgets 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.

 
 
Employee Free Choice Act Print E-mail
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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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