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

The Advocate – 36.3
December 2012

In this issue:

• AFTers’ campaigning contributes to historic victories in Calif. elections
• Democracy in action in CSM’s Building 10
• “Guerilla” tablers reach Skyline students
• Dems’ supermajority provides historic opportunity to reverse austerity budget
• Introducing Salumeh Eslamieh, Cañada’s new Executive Committe Rep.
• Join AFT’s COPE to help elect faculty-friendly Board members
• KCSM broadcast spectrum may be sold to wireless companies
• Repeal laws that unfairly deny Social Security benefits to teachers
• Advocate survey: faculty are mixed on reading online vs. print

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

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

The Advocate – 36.2
October 2012

In this issue:

• Part-time faculty looking for “parity” with comparable full-time pay rates
• CFT recommendations for California state ballot propositions
• AFTer’s email prompts criminal investigation
• Lessons of the Chicago teachers’ strike
• Performance Evaluation Task Force begins work
• Introducing new Executive Committee members Lin Bowie and Sarah Powers
• Daughter of CSM instructor wins AFL-CIO college scholarship