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As the statewide affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers, the CFT represents faculty and other school employees in public and private schools and colleges, from early childhood through higher education. |
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CFT, UTLA launch new radio spots for fair tax solution to budget problem |
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June 22 — The California Federation of Teachers and United Teachers Los Angeles announced today that they will be running sixty second radio spots in Los Angeles to tell legislators and the governor they need to solve the state's budget problem with progressive tax policies, not by wrecking the future of students and their teachers. The spots feature the voice of pink-slipped middle school teacher Julie Van Winkle, who tells her listeners that whether she is able to return in the fall to her classroom or not, her students still deserve a decent education, and it's a matter of conscious political choice by legislators and the governor, not some preordained inevitability, whether that can happen.
Click here to play the radio spot. |
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Rallies call on legislators, governor, to do right thing |
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June 17, Oakland—Berkeley Federation of Teachers president Cathy Campbell (with mic) called for the legislators and governor to close corporate tax loopholes, not schools and health clinics, at a rally held this morning in front of the state building in downtown Oakland. Behind Campbell is a protester dressed as a blind Governor Schwarzenegger, holding aloft scales of justice tilted toward "cuts" instead of taking action on "tax loopholes." At left, in pink, is Laney student Sarah French, and to her right is Linda Leu, of Health Access California.
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Tell your legislator now: revenues, not cuts! |
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A message from CFT president Marty Hittelman, June 2, 2009
I am asking you to take a few minutes out of your busy life to contact your legislators. We must act now to help prevent massive reductions in funding to public education and social services.
Send a letter to your legislators
California is facing the most severe budget crisis since the passage of Prop 13 in 1978. In many ways it is even worse today, as we have already experienced many years of large cuts to public education and social services.
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