In this issue:

• AFT’s Campaign for Safe Campuses: A review
  
  While our district was not prepared with promised Covid testing for all, nor with adequate supplies of N95/KN95 masks for all students, district administrators nevertheless did not allow faculty or staff the option to temporarily move to remote work.
• AFT continues organizing for safer campuses
  Each of our colleges held their first health and safety committee meetings of the semester.
• Opinion: ‘Students first’ should mean strong, clear health & safety policies and transparency from administration
  Perhaps I was too trusting that those in power would do the right thing and put ‘students first’.
• Part-time faculty have rights to stability in assignments
  Know your rights: AFT’s contract offers a number of appointment stability protections to adjuncts
• Member action leads governor to pledge $200 million toward part-time faculty healthcare
  
  CFT’s campaign to win affordable, quality healthcare for part-time faculty brings early success in Newsom’s state budget proposal
• Don’t mourn – organize! Building our Contract Action Team network, department by department
  Our union just launched a new member-to-member Contract Action Team (CAT) outreach drive, with the goal of strengthening our ability to engage and turn out members for our upcoming contract campaign.
• Black History Month resources available from CFT
  
  In observation of Black History Month, the CFT has organized a collection of resources that highlight the work of Black educators and labor organizers and reflect on how we can advance the ongoing struggle for racial justice.