Standing Together for Education.
The “Classified Professionals – We Do It All” week of action is a high-visibility, union-led celebration designed to move classified staff from the background to the forefront of the educational conversation.
By combining traditional appreciation with strategic solidarity actions—ranging from a unified Monday Solidarity Walk-In to a local-wide Friday Union Shirt Day—this week creates a powerful narrative of essentiality and strength.
The month of May was chosen to commemorate the arrival of the first Japanese immigrants to the United States on May 7, 1843, during the beginning of the California Gold Rush. It also marks the anniversary of the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad on May 10, 1869. Most of the workers who laid the tracks that connected the frontier to the rest of the country were Chinese immigrants.
The month of May was chosen to commemorate the arrival of the first Japanese immigrants to the United States on May 7, 1843, during the beginning of the California Gold Rush. It also marks the anniversary of the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad on May 10, 1869. Most of the workers who laid the tracks that connected the frontier to the rest of the country were Chinese immigrants.
CFT – A Union of Educators and Classified Professionals announced today that their members voted to endorse Al Muratsuchi for Superintendent of Public Instruction.
As Assembly Education Committee Chair, a community college educator, and a union member, Muratsuchi has a long record of working alongside educators, classified professionals, and organized labor to strengthen public education — from early childhood and K-12 schools to California’s community colleges.
Across California, educators and classified professionals are already in motion—and building power in real time.
This issue of CFT United brings those stories together: from the surge of May Day organizing, to hard-won contract gains, to getting books into students’ hands and defending our schools. None of this is isolated. It’s connected, deliberate, and growing. The task in front of us is not to wait for momentum—it’s to deepen it, and make it impossible to ignore. And CFT is doing that every day.
The “Classified Professionals – We Do It All” week of action is a high-visibility, union-led celebration designed to move classified staff from the background to the forefront of the educational conversation.
By combining traditional appreciation with strategic solidarity actions—ranging from a unified Monday Solidarity Walk-In to a local-wide Friday Union Shirt Day—this week creates a powerful narrative of essentiality and strength.
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