Action Center

Article PT campaign part-time faculty

Urge governor to increase workload cap for part-time faculty
Ask Governor Newsom to sign CFT-sponsored bill to raise the cap to 85%!

raising the percentage of workload

UPDATE: We are disappointed to report Governor Newsom vetoed AB 1856 on September 25, citing cost concerns. Find his veto message here. This action is now closed.

Please take a moment to urge Governor Newsom to sign AB 1856, which will increase the workload cap available to part-time faculty from 67% up to 85% of a full-time faculty workload in California’s community colleges.

Article WEP/GPO Social Security

Sign now to repeal WEP and GPO!
Stop penalizing teachers and public employees

Repeal WEP/GPO

Everyone deserves a secure retirement, especially those who devoted their career to public service. The Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO) threatens that by substantially reducing or eliminating the earned Social Security benefits of the millions of retired teachers and public employees who contributed to Social Security through other employment.

Article PT campaign part-time faculty

Join a campaign kickoff meeting on Zoom — Faculty Healthcare Now!
In phase 2, learn how to secure funding for part-timer healthcare in your community college district

Part-time faculty on a zoom meeting

We invite local union leaders, activists, and rank-and-file members to please join us and kick off this phase with faculty power!

In Phase 1 of the Part-Time Faculty Campaign, our collective efforts secured $200 million in ongoing funding for part-time faculty healthcare in the California state budget. Now in Phase 2, we are launching coordinated collective bargaining as members begin to mobilize and bargain in their home districts to secure this funding in contracts or MOUs.

Article PT campaign part-time faculty

Join a campaign kickoff meeting this fall — Faculty Healthcare Now!
Local mobilizing and bargaining — learn how to secure funding for part-time healthcare in your community college district

In phase one of the Part-Time Faculty Campaign, our collective efforts secured $200 million in ongoing funding for part-time faculty healthcare in the California state budget. 

Now we are launching phase two — coordinated collective bargaining — as members begin to mobilize and bargain in their home districts to secure this funding locally.

Article

Part-time faculty — we need you to complete our 2022 survey!
Survey closed

Take the CFT 2022 Part-Time Faculty Survey

Update: Thank you to all faculty who completed our survey. Find the ground-breaking results here! 

By completing this survey, you’re helping CFT’s statewide campaign to win quality, affordable healthcare for all part-time faculty in California. The results will strengthen CFT’s advocacy in the state Legislature, and inform local unions negotiating improvements in your districts.

Article

Sign up to testify at April 5 budget hearings in the state Legislature
Tell your story!

members on Zoom testify before CA Legislature

Update: Thanks to all the members who testified. You made a difference! 

The Legislature will be holding more state budget hearings on Tuesday, April 5 at 9 am to discuss the future of healthcare funding for part-time faculty.

Legislators need to hear directly from you about the importance of this issue! We must keep up the pressure to ensure the $200 million remains in the state budget and to advocate for a system that actually delivers health coverage to the faculty who need it.

Article coronavirus

Workers can’t wait, #PaidSickDaysNOW
Sign the petition!

paid sick leave for covid

By Art Pulaski, Executive Secretary Treasurer, California Labor Federation

Since the beginning of this pandemic, workers have borne the brunt of this crisis. They’ve been on the frontlines for nearly two years, every day, to keep our economy afloat. Now, with the omicron surge leading to record cases, frontline workers are more at risk than ever. And many are assuming this risk with few protections.

Article lecturers strikes

Show solidarity with UC-AFT! Join the ULP strike Wednesday and Thursday

Update: The strike is called off after an agreement was reached in the early morning hours of November 17. See the news story. 

Late Saturday night, the lecturers of the University Council-AFT announced that they have notified UC management that lecturers will take part in an unfair labor practice strike on November 17 and 18. This strike is about a pattern of bad faith bargaining and unfair labor practices committed by President Michael Drake’s administration.

Post

Take action now to extend emergency COVID sick leave in California

On September 30, California’s emergency supplemental COVID sick leave will expire if our elected officials in Sacramento don’t act. Without an extension, many California workers will be in danger of losing their job if they are unfortunate enough to get infected with COVID. School workers without sufficient sick leave will also be at risk of losing pay should they become infected with COVID.

Article

Support the California Tax on Extreme Wealth!​

Since the beginning of the pandemic last March, while our families and our communities have suffered gut-wrenching pain and loss, billionaires in our state alone have increased their wealth by over half a trillion dollars.

Article

Tell California’s elected leaders – Invest in community colleges

California’s community colleges are critical to our students’ and our communities’ recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, without immediate action from Sacramento, most of our colleges are facing dire fiscal crises, threatening jobs and undermining our ability to meet the needs of our students and our communities.

Send a letter to California’s elected leaders: Time to invest in our community colleges!

Article

Pass the American Workforce Rescue Act
Support the Biden plan to provide more COVID-19 relief for the millions in need

President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and their team have been working at a furious pace to identify what needs to happen fast — to contain the coronavirus, to get our country vaccinated, to help struggling Americans and their communities, and to start reversing the discriminatory, hate-driven executive actions of the last four years. But Biden and Harris cannot do it alone. Now is the time for us to roll up our sleeves and work together to build back better.

Write to Congress right now and urge your elected representatives to support the American Workforce Rescue Act