San Francisco AFT 2121 Strikes CCSF-STOP Wage Cuts, Downsizing & Privatization

AFT Local 2121 that represents 1500 faculty and staff of City College of San Francisco went out on the first ever strike in one of the largest community colleges in the state of California on Wednesday April 27, 2016. After years of wage concessions and downsizing, the union is now also facing a union busting attack by the Chancellor and administration. They are also implementing a 26% cutback in classes and staff severely harming the ability work working class and minority students to get classes that they need.
Teachers talk about the effort to privatize the college and force more students to go to private colleges to get an education.
This was an unfair labor practice strike for one day but the chancellor closed down the entire college to limit the support that the teachers are receiving from the community and students.
Interim City College Chancellor Susan Lamb called the strike illegal and has refused to use the massive surplus for college faculty salaries and for the school staff except administrators. At the same time, the corporate controlled school managers have spent millions of dollars on consultants and contracts benefiting computer companies and other corporations while the core faculty and staff face layoffs and are forced into poverty. The Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges which was responsible for accrediting the college has used it's power to make cuts to faculty while increasing administrators and also restructure the college to make it similar to a business college. The management in collusion with Mayor Ed Lee and other Democratic politicians have worked with developers to sell of the campuses and want to transfer the present parking lot to housing developers instead of being used for public use by the college. Some speakers called for free admissions so that all students can attend the college.
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