Historic labor often happens in what might seem on the surface to be the most unlikely and challenging of organizing and bargaining environments, and nowhere is this clearer than in the example of the Yuba College American Federation of Teachers.
To date, 14 CFT locals have secured AB 190 Option 1 programs (Full-time faculty equivalent healthcare for Part-time faculty working over 40% of a full-time load).
These CFT local union part-time successes have both saved and changed lives for the better.
CFT’s One-Tier Task force and CFT members, after over eight months of discussion, has created a definitive list of basic components deemed essential for what a one-faculty model should look like in the California community college system.
The work is the result of a team of core community college union leaders and activists, composed equally of both part and full-time members.