Published in the March 27, 2015 Noozhawk. More than 600 delegates, staff and guests. Fifty-four different union locals represented, from one end of California to the other. Speakers as diverse as state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson; State Controller Betty Yee; Assemblyman Jose Medina, R-Riverside, chairman of the Assembly Higher Education Committee; and educator/motivational […]
Read More →Published in the February 20, 2015 Bloomberg Business By Keith Naughton, Lynn Doan and Jeff Green After years of avoiding confrontation, the U.S. labor movement is reasserting itself. From the ports of Los Angeles to the car plants of Detroit, unions are demanding payback for sacrifices they say helped revive the economy. Oil workers have […]
Read More →Published in the February 18, 2015 Santa Maria Times. It took nearly a year, but the Hancock College Part-time Faculty Association finally has a contract. The Board of Trustees unanimously approved the deal Tuesday night at its regular meeting. If the rank and file ratifies the contract, the three-year deal will take the group through […]
Read More →Published in the February 13, 2015 Noozhawk On Feb. 3, the Part-Time Faculty Association of Allan Hancock College, California Federation of Teachers Local 6185 and representatives of the Allan Hancock Joint Community College District signed a three-year collective bargaining agreement. The new agreement is a testament to the hard work both sides did over the […]
Read More →Published in the December 5, 2014 Noozhawk. “The rich are different,” F. Scott Fitzgerald observed to Ernest Hemingway. “Yes,” Hemingway replied. “They’ve got more money.” In fact and in fiction, many have chronicled how the rich — particularly the ultra-rich who inherited great wealth — are different from the rest of us: Some have a […]
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