AFT Pushes for Comprehensive Immigration Reform

(Features EA Vice-President Montserrat Garibay)

MEMBERS MEETINGS

Monthly Meetings are held at 4:00 pm at the County Schools Office, room 217.

  • November 6, 2013
  • January 8, 2014
  • March 12, 2014
  • May 14, 2014 (if needed)

Please attend all meetings.  We need you!

 

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September 20 and 21 - Local Leaders Conference

 

50 leaders from 21 OFT Locals attended the Local Leaders Conference on September 20 and 21 at Kalahari Convention Center in Sandusky, OH.

The highlight of Friday evening was a visit from the Democratic candidate for Governor, Ed Fitzgerald.  He shared his background and his concerns; local leaders asked questions of him.

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Negotiations - SLO Survey Results!

Thank you to those who participated in our survey. To view the results, click on this LINK.

A Civil Right to Unionize

By Richard Kahlenberg and Moshe Marvit 

The New York Times Opinion
Feb. 29, 2012

 

From the 1940s to the 1970s, organized labor helped build a middle-class democracy in the United States. The postwar period was as successful as it was because of unions, which helped enact progressive social legislation from the Civil Rights Act to Medicare. Since then, union representation of American workers has fallen, in tandem with the percentage of income going to the middle class. Broadly shared prosperity has been replaced by winner-take-all plutocracy. MORE

 

 

A Civil Right to Unionize

A Civil Right to Unionize

By Richard Kahlenberg and Moshe Marvit 

The New York Times Opinnion Pages - February 29, 2012

FROM the 1940s to the 1970s, organized labor helped build a middle-class democracy in the United States. The postwar period was as successful as it was because of unions, which helped enact progressive social legislation from the Civil Rights Act to Medicare. Since then, union representation of American workers has fallen, in tandem with the percentage of income going to the middle class. Broadly shared prosperity has been replaced by winnertake-all plutocracy.

Corporations will tell you that the American labor movement has declined so significantly — to around 7 percent of the private-sector work force today, from 35 percent of the private sector in the mid-1950s — because unions are obsolete in a global economy, where American workers have to compete against low-wage nonunion workers in other countries. But many vibrant industrial democracies, including Germany, have strong unions despite facing the same pressures from globalization. Read More

A Civil Right to Unionize

By Richard Kahlenberg and Moshe Marvit 

The New York Times Opinnion Pages - February 29, 2012

FROM the 1940s to the 1970s, organized labor helped build a middle-class democracy in the United States. The postwar period was as successful as it was because of unions, which helped enact progressive social legislation from the Civil Rights Act to Medicare. Since then, union representation of American workers has fallen, in tandem with the percentage of income going to the middle class. Broadly shared prosperity has been replaced by winnertake-all plutocracy.

Corporations will tell you that the American labor movement has declined so significantly — to around 7 percent of the private-sector work force today, from 35 percent of the private sector in the mid-1950s — because unions are obsolete in a global economy, where American workers have to compete against low-wage nonunion workers in other countries. But many vibrant industrial democracies, including Germany, have strong unions despite facing the same pressures from globalization. Read More

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