Los Angeles College Faculty Guild, representing faculty in the nine LA-area community colleges.
The Los Angeles College Faculty Guild is the exclusive bargaining agent for full-time and adjunct faculty working in the nine community colleges within the Los Angeles Community College District. The Guild has represented the district's faculty since the beginning of collective bargaining in California's community colleges in 1977, and is the largest local union of community college faculty in Cal
10/11/2023
Our members have spoken: we have ratified our 2023-2026 Collective Bargaining Agreement with a majority 98% YES vote! Now we will head to the Board of Trustees on Oct. 18th for the final ratification and signing. We are !
09/06/2023
Our UCLA Labor Summer fellow, Jasmine Garcia Rodriguez, was featured on KCRW:
“We aided and conducted outreach to picket in front of the Board of Trustees’ district office, demand fair compensation for all faculty, [and] ask the board to negotiate in good faith.”
Her experience showed her just how much work and planning goes into these types of union actions. With the summer over, she plans to help the UCLA Labor Center get other students into field work.
UCLA student organizers get hands-on experience during hot labor summer UCLA’s Labor Center hosted a summer boot camp for future organizers, further cementing Los Angeles as the vanguard of the new labor movement.
04/25/2023
Join the Dolores Huerta Labor Institute (DHLI) and LA College Faculty Guild (AFT 1521) faculty, staff, and students as we celebrate International Workers Day! We’re kicking it off with our Labor Panel tomorrow leading up to the annual May Day rally & march in Los Angeles! Link to register: https://bit.ly/maydayourway
03/25/2023
"In the current national discussions of the recent labor upsurge, there is much said about increasing union density, but not so much about how we want unions to operate and what we want them to be able to win. LA’s hard-learned lessons on organizational transformation, democratic practices, power, scale, and working solidaristically across groups of workers through their unions provide important and visionary guideposts for the country."
Congratulations SEIU Local 99 on a historic tentative agreement! And UTLA for the immense show of solidarity for education workers! It's the right thing to do for the schools our K-12 students deserve. Solidarity is the way forward.
Why 60,000 Education Workers Walked Off the Job In Los Angeles This week’s massive jobs action also represents a model for building worker power.
03/21/2023
AFT 1521 faculty members and students stand in solidarity with our union siblings SEIU Local 99 and UTLA. Collectively, they are fighting for student resources, living wages for education workers, and well-funded and fully staffed public schools. We are in this together! Join a picket line or attend a rally starting tomorrow 3/21 (until Thursday): utla.net/99strike 🪧
03/21/2023
03/14/2023
As we enter into our own negotiations with the District on smaller class sizes, safe and clean campuses, and more direct services and resources going to students, we understand the need to fight for the public schools our students deserve.
This is why on 3/15, we are joining UTLA and SEIU Local 99 in calling on the LAUSD Superintendent to use the District's $4.9 billion in reserves to invest in staff, students, and communities.
See you there! RSVP here for meet-up details: https://forms.gle/7Gk1DCCU9M2dhgho6
03/13/2023
"For me, I am forever grateful for my union." Our member and student debt clinic trainer, Dr. Jessica Saint-Paul, shares exciting news she and our members received about their student debt! youtube.com/watch?v=taEW80_CtS0
AFT Local 1521 Members Receive Student Loan Relief Dr. Jessica Saint-Paul, a plaintiff In AFT's lawsuit against Navient, shares exciting news she and her members received about their student debt.
03/08/2023
Happy and ! We value and lift up the contributions of all women in the labor movement. Labor history is women's history!
02/04/2023
Black history is essential. We must teach and celebrate Black history all year long.
01/31/2023
"I want our children to live in a safer and more just world. I want our students to be safe and our communities respected. We must challenge a racist, sexist, homophobic, and xenophobic culture that embraces violence." - AFT 1521 President, James McKeever
01/25/2023
We just signed the University Council-American Federation of Teachers's petition demanding UCLA Lab School Administration return to the table and negotiate with their teachers in good faith: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/negotiate-with-ucla-lab-school-demonstration-teachers-now/ ✊
Negotiate with UCLA Lab School Demonstration Teachers Now A petition to Darnell Hunt, UCLA Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost & Tina Christie, Dean of the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies After months of delay and nearly 3 years without a contract, UCLA Management continues to refuse to bargain anything other than compensation. UCLA Lab....