Educators

We are public servants working to shape the next generation of citizens, scholars, and leaders. As skilled and experienced teaching professionals, we provide crucial mentorship and support to UC’s most marginalized and historically underserved student populations.

Unionists

Our solidarity creates community, making shared governance and collective action possible. When we work together, we can transform bad “gigs” into more stable, full-time and dignified careers. As part of a national union of educators and scholars, we fight to defend public education and our communities. 

Visionaries

We envision a better UC, one in which every student has the mentorship and support they deserve, in which institutional memory and experience is valued, and in which every worker receives dignity and respect.

UC-AFT is fighting to strengthen job stability and provide career pathways for all teaching faculty; to improve wages and benefits so that all teaching faculty have access to healthcare and can provide for their families; and to ensure fair compensation and workload that reflects our training, experience, and contributions to the UC. With your participation, we can together build a more equitable UC, one in which every student has the mentorship and support they need, excellent teaching is valued, and every UC worker is afforded dignity and respect.

For the first time in over twenty years, the members of UC-AFT have voted with an overwhelming majority of 96% to authorize a strike.

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University Council - American Federation of Teachers (UC-AFT) is the union representing over 6,800 teaching faculty working throughout the UC system. Our members hold academic appointments as lecturers, program coordinators, instructors, and supervisors of teacher education. We are skilled and experienced educators who often have the same training and credentials as our tenured colleagues and who teach 30% of credit courses at UC, including introductory level and core requirement classes at both the graduate and undergraduate level, that are critical to establishing a student’s academic career.

A fair contract for UC teaching faculty would:

• Protect teaching faculty from mass layoffs in the short-run and, in the long-run, establish clear and transparent  career pathways, thereby transforming teaching “gigs” into more stable, full-time jobs.
• Support students by ensuring instructional continuity, so that they can continue to learn from the skilled and experienced teachers and mentors they know and trust.
• Contribute to our local and regional economies by improving wages, expanding access to healthcare, and allowing teaching faculty and their families to establish roots in cities and neighborhoods close to UC campus.

Every lecturer deserves a contract that includes:

1. Reasonable workload standards that eliminate uncompensated workload and address lecturers’ unpaid service and professional development.
2. Transparent, consistent appointment processes tthat bring job stability through rehiring preferences, unbiased evaluations, multi-year appointments for pre-six lecturers, and accessible pathways to promotion to Senior Lecturer for continuing lecturers.
3. Fair compensation that reflects our training, experience, and contributions to our university and will keep up with the rising cost of living in California.

School Funding Next Year

From the Lawyer’s Desk

Monroe, LA – This month, the Monroe Federation of Teachers and School Employees (MFTSE) will donate nearly 2,000 books to Monroe City elementary and middle schools in honor of National Reading Month. Donations will begin March 1^st and the Federation will distribute at least 100 books to each school.

“We hope that these books will promote reading and student literacy in our schools. The students of Monroe City Schools are our future. What’s a better way to give back than to donate books,” said MFTSE President Sandie Lollie.

MFTSE worked with the Louisiana Federation of Teachers, the American Federation of Teachers, and First Book Marketplace 

According to Commonwealth Magazine, “Riley is looking to leverage state regulations to push districts to bring students back to the classroom.

February 28, 2021 - Bow, NH

 NH House Session   Over two days this week, the NH House met in session for the first time since early January.  The first day, in particular, was ugly, ill-tempered, and ultimately chaotic, one of the worst days in the NH House in recent memory.  Keep in mind that the day began with over thirty Democratic members unable to attend due to health concerns related to the COVID pandemic.  Republican leadership continues to refuse to even consider any means of remote access to accommodate these representatives, even voting down a rules change to allow for remote access (Republicans have rejected rules permitting remote access at least twice already, then claim the lack of a rule permitting remote access prevents implementation of a remote accommodation). At the same time, however, Speaker Packard (R-Londonderry) continues to bend over backwards to accommodate the 60 or 70 Republicans who refuse to wear masks or take even the slightest precautions in the midst of this pandemic.  These “unmasked” Republican members sat on one side of the Bedford Sportsplex, but while they were urged to wear masks when leaving their area, they were not required to do so.  Their lack of collegiality, civility, and respect for the welfare of others set the tone for the Republican majority’s behavior the entire day.

The Federation has worked behind the scenes to demand recognition for teachers and school employees. You all have given so much this year, and sacrificed a lot to ensure your students have access to the best possible education. Thank you for your service.

In recognition of that dedication, we are proud to announce that all Monroe City School Board Employees will receive a stipend this Spring. Pending Board Approval at the March 16th School Board meeting