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The Advocate - 33.6 - May 2010 (2 MB)
In this issue:
- March for California’s Future points to ways forward from state’s budget crisis
- Contract talks focus on Board policies; economic issues still ahead
- More flex days, more non-instructional work, but less real professional development
- AFT and District Academic Senate make plans to collaborate
- Across AFT's great divide: A part-timer’s view of losing classes
- A history of the neoliberal assault on public education
- Q&A about the District’s post-retirement health care funds
- Part-timers are eligible for unemployment benefits
- AFT 1493 elections have begun; don’t forget to vote
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The Advocate - 33.5 -
April 2010 (2 MB)
In this issue:
Extensive coverage & photos from March 4th actions & "March in March"!
- District students, faculty & staff join over 10,000 at "March in March"
- March 4th actions at all 3 colleges & major S.F. event
- AFT1493.org website named best in state!
- California needs to decide budgets by majority vote
- Six AFT 1493 delegates attend CFT Convention
- March for California’s Future challenges state priorities
- AFT 1493 decides to support District parcel tax, despite inequities
- An introduction to retirement health care benefits
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The Advocate - 33.4 – February 2010 (2.1 MB)
In this issue:
- Hundreds attend teach-ins on budget crisis at all three colleges
- District decision-making must be transparent and inclusive
- Contract talks continue, but progress is slow
- Senate leaders respond to budget crisis in our District
- Opinion: One way to reduce college costs: Cut from the top
- In memoriam: George Goth
- AFT 1493 is looking for a few new leaders
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The Advocate - 33.3 – December 2009 (2.2 MB)
In this issue:
- Community college faculty and students begin organizing against cuts
- District offers zero, wants to roll back faculty rights
- Administrators’ pay rose 11 - 16% in last two years, faculty lag far behind
- Resource Allocation Model appears to favor District Office
- CSM community organizes vigil to “save education”
- Skyline “Concerned Faculty” challenge budget cut strategy
- Part Time Faculty Group joins AFT
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The Advocate - 33.2 – November 2009 (1.2 MB)
In this issue:
- President’s Letter: Budget situation is worse than a Halloween horror movie
- Is there a better way to reduce the budget? – Consider structural reorganization & centralization
- District part-time faculty group proposes new social contract
- Know your rights in evaluation procedures
- Letter: Community colleges’ transfer function needs support
- A part-timer’s view on the state budget and our colleges
- Retirees’ group planning two end-of-year events
- We need to fight for California’s future
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The Advocate - 33.1 – October 2009 (2 MB)
In this issue:
- AFT opens contract negotiations with District: COLA and parity needed in tough economic times
- Key goal for negotiations: binding arbitration
- President’s Letter: What are reasonable goals for faculty in an economic crisis?
- AFT to hold budget forums at all three colleges
- No Trust Committee; no revising of faculty evaluation procedures
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The Advocate - 32.6 – May 2009 (2 MB)
In this issue:
- Board overrules arbitrator’s decision! – breaks 25-year promise and exposes essential need for binding arbitration
- Who cares about binding arbitration? – Why the Board’s decision impacts all faculty
- President’s Letter: Working on better AFT-faculty communications
- Fighting words at 2009 CFT Convention
- Finding a “lesson” at the CFT Convention
- Many valuable ways the Union and Academic Senate collaborate
- Results of the AFT 1493 Communication Survey: Faculty give thumbs up to The Advocate and E-News, say AFT 1493 website needs work
- CFT opposes all May 19 election propositions except 1B
- Faculty input needed for new contract negotiations
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The Advocate - 32.5 – March-April 2009 (1.3 MB)
In this issue:
- Arbitrator reinstates probationary faculty member with back pay
- The committee to revise the faculty evaluation process has still not been OK’ed by the District
- Compressed Calendar Task Force update
- President’s Letter: Comparing rights of faculty in California with the rest of the nation
- Flex days, flex time: faculty’s rights and responsibilities
- Cal-PASS: High school, college and university faculty share issues in common disciplines
- Conference focuses on how to defend public workers and social services amidst the economic crisis in California
- Trustee responds to Advocate letter on administrators’ pay
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The Advocate - 32.4 - February 2009 (755 KB)
In this issue:
- Faculty rights to free political speech must be protected
- Retirement incentives not as popular among faculty as for administrators & classified staff
- Come out!
- How will reductions in full-time faculty affect the rest of us?
- Lezlee Ware is new Cañada College Chapter Co-Chair
- CFT and state Academic Senate oppose requiring the use of SLOs in faculty evaluations
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The Advocate - 32.3 - December 2008 (900 KB)
In this issue:
- Concerns raised about faculty’s and students’ rights to free political expression on campus
- District email on “Posting of Information”
- Legal basis for faculty’s right to free political expression
- President’s Letter: The effects of a strong labor movement
- CFT and AFT scholarships available
- District retirees to meet on December 12
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The Advocate - 32.2 - November 2008 (1 MB)
In this issue:
- CFT calls on ACCJC to amend accreditation mandate linking SLOs to faculty evaluation
- Faculty ratify new contract language
- Faculty support adding new flex days to 2009-2010 academic calendar
- Online instructors discuss concerns about teaching online
- Compressed calendar task force moves forward
- CFT recommendations for state ballot propositions
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The Advocate - 32.1 - September 2008 (1.7 MB)
In this issue:
- AFT & District reach tentative settlement on “re-openers”
- New AFT 1493 President is your “representative”
- New AFT 1493 grievance officers ready to deal with faculty problems
- Katie Schertle takes over as Cañada College Chapter Chair
- AFT throws big retirement party for John Kirk
- “Who are the workers?” – a poem by Katharine Harer
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