Struggle in the Courts Archives

Faculty Voice Newsletter: May 2018: The Origins of AFT Local 4400: a Profile of Julie Olsen Edwards

May 16, 2018 CCFT Comments Off

by David Lau There is an intensity and vehemence of purpose in the voice of Julie Olsen Edwards. The daughter of two leftists—Tillie Olsen, the journalist and legend of the short story, was her mother; […]

Faculty Voice Newsletter: March 2018: News Update: Janus, College for All, PVFT in Mediation, Online-Only Community College, Strikes in West Virginia and Great Britain

March 4, 2018 CCFT Comments Off

by David Lau Spring Semester 2018 at the Outset CCFT has held several meetings in the opening weeks of the semester. It is a season of transition for our local and for Cabrillo College. For […]

Faculty Voice Newsletter: March 2018: Strong Unions Need: Debora Bone Responds to Anti-union Editorial in Santa Cruz Sentinel

March 4, 2018 CCFT Comments Off

by Debora Bone Marc A. Thiesson’s recent editorial in Santa Cruz Sentinel attacking public workers and their unions is filled with the blatant misrepresentations that underlie the Janus v American Federation of State, County and […]

Faculty Voice Newsletter: November 2017: News Update

November 12, 2017 CCFT Comments Off

by David Lau CFT President Joshua Pechthalt Goes to CCFT Council Attacks on public sector unions are set to escalate in a new way. The Janus case before the Supreme Court—court observers predict the case […]

Faculty Voice Newsletter: May 2017: CFT Continues to Work for Changes at ACCJC

May 5, 2017 CCFT Comments Off

by David Lau A new interim ACCJC President spoke before the Community College Council at the CFT Convention in April. Dr. Richard Winn struck an amicable note in his seemingly apologetic comments and then took […]

Faculty Voice Newsletter: February 2017: News in a Time of Troubles

February 12, 2017 CCFT Comments Off

by David Lau CCFT Flex Week Events On Tuesday January 17, the part-timers Solidarity lunch saw a great turnout. More than fifty faculty members and three governing board members shared mole enchiladas, salad, frijoles, […]

Faculty Voice Newsletter: November 2016: The Aftermath: 2016 Elections and Consequences

November 26, 2016 CCFT Comments Off

by David Lau So Much Trouble in the World Much ink has spilled over the “shock” of Donald Trump’s election victory. How could it be that a country undergoing a demographic transformation, full of “enlightened” […]

Faculty Voice: October 2016: News Roundup: ACCJC Back on Campus at CCSF: Elections around the Corner

October 16, 2016 CCFT Comments Off

by David Lau ACCJC Back On Campus at CCSF Stuck in an interminable accreditation crisis, City College of San Francisco faces yet another battle with ACCJC that could result in revocation and College closure. Monday […]

Faculty Voice: September 2016: News Roundup: Vergara v. CTA Ends, ACCJC Update, Faculty Locked Out at Long Island University

September 10, 2016 CCFT Comments Off

David Lau Vergara v. CTA Is Over Back in April, a California Appeals Court overturned the Vergara decision from 2014, in which a lower court had fundamentally thrown out the tenure protections of the K-12 […]

Faculty Voice: May 2016: News Roundup: ACCJC Update, CCSF Strike, Lower Court Ruling Upheld Against Friedrichs, and Unionist of the Year

May 5, 2016 CCFT Comments Off

by David Lau, CCFT Communications Director ACCJC on Life Support ACCJC, the troubled accreditor of Cabrillo College and the entire California Community College system, faced a difficult few weeks in March. A majority of California […]