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Marty Hittelman was elected CFT President in 2007. Before his election he served as CFT's Senior Vice-President,
and also led the CFT's Community College Council, which
represents community college faculty and classified employees.
Hittelman formerly led the faculty
union of the Los Angeles Community College District, AFT
College Guild, Local 1521. Hittelman has served on many
legislative task forces and is a past member of the statewide
Community College Academic Senate Executive Committee. He was a high school teacher before teaching math at Los Angeles Valley College.
- Laura Rico serves as the Senior Vice President of CFT. She is a pre-school teacher in the ABC Unified School District, where she serves as President of AFT Local 2317. Rico is also a Vice-President of the national AFT, as well as the national AFL-CIO.
- Dennis Smith serves as CFT Secretary-Treasurer, elected in 2007. He has served as President of the Los Rios Community College Federation of Teachers, Local 2279, and as the statewide President of the Faculty Association for California Community Colleges (FACCC). He is a Business and Accounting professor.
- Robert Chacanaca, formerly
campus supervisor at Harbor High School
in Santa Cruz, presides over CFT's
Council of Classified Employees, the
school support staff, non-certificated
members of the CFT. Chacanaca is president
of his local union, the Santa Cruz
Council of Classified Employees, AFT
Local 6084, and president of the Monterey
Bay Central Labor Council.
- Susan Westbrook heads CFT's Early Childhood/K-12
Council. She is a member-at-large of the CFT, and has taught for 37 years. Westbrook chairs the CFT Education Issues Committee, and is the CFT representative to the California Commissionon Teacher Credentialing.
- Bob Samuels, a lecturer
in the Writing Program at UCLA, leads
the CFT's University Council, which
represents the librarian and lecturer
bargaining units in the University
of California system.
- Carl Friedlander is the president of the CFT Community College Council. He is a long-time faculty member in the Los Angeles Community College District, and president of the Los Angeles College Faculty Guild, AFT Local 1521.
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WHO WE ARE
 We
are education employees working at every level of California education,
from Head Start to the University of California. We are mostly in
public schools, but you can find us in dozens of private schools
and universities, too. We find common ground in our commitment to
education and by participating together in the statewide California
Federation of Teachers. The CFT is your professional union.
We come together to act-on behalf of education workplace rights,
academic freedom, legislative solutions to educational policy issues,
and full access to quality public education for our students. We
encourage every member to be an active member. The union should
never be understood as somehow other than or outside of ourselves.
Your activism is the key to our power as professionals.
AFFILIATIONS
The CFT is the statewide organization of local unions of the American
Federation of Teachers (AFT). Every AFT local in California
is affiliated with the national AFT, the statewide CFT and with
the American Federation of Labor-Congress
of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). Portions of our dues
dollars (the amounts determined democratically through your vote
in local, statewide and national meetings) underwrites the activities
of our affiliated groups.
While these affiliations may at first seem distant from your campus
or worksite, each represents a level of support for your own activities
at work and in defense of your rights. Our locals in California
can call upon affiliates for assistance in political or legislative
action, for research during negotiations, to add their members'
voices to ours in demonstrations, and for ongoing training in the
skills and knowledge necessary to run a strong, active, democratic
union-all of which ultimately allows us to run our work lives in
a more professional manner.
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