From CFT president Marty Hittelman

A message from CFT president Marty Hittelman, or otherwise know as - when is the CTA going to get off it's ass, stop squandering the 70 million a year it takes from us and do something to save jobs~!?
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I am asking you to take a few minutes out of your busy life to contact your legislators. We must act now to help prevent massive reductions in funding to public education and social services.

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California is facing the most severe budget crisis since the passage of Prop 13 in 1978. In many ways it is even worse today, as we have already experienced many years of large cuts to public education and social services.
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L.A. teachers arrested in civil disobedience protest Print E-mail

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May 15 — Several dozen members and leaders of United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) were arrested when they sat down in the street in front of the Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters and refused to leave. UTLA had scheduled a one-day strike to protest budget reductions, layoffs and soaring class sizes, but had to revise their plan when a judge issued a restraining order that would have fined teachers and threatened revoking their credentials if they struck. Instead, teachers demonstrated before school at their sites and staged a sit in.
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CFT files suit to protect schools, community colleges Print E-mail

May 8 — The California Federation of Teachers, AFT/AFL-CIO yesterday filed suit in San Francisco Superior Court to force the state to repay nearly $12 billion slashed from the K-14 public education budget over the past two years. The CFT was joined by Service Employees International Union Local 99 in the lawsuit, which seeks to enforce voter-approved Proposition 98 minimum funding guarantees.

The CFT filed the suit following an announcement by Governor Schwarzenegger threatening to cut another $3.6 billion from the education budget. The plaintiffs said that going to court to restore school funding is a better option than passing Propositions 1A and 1B in the May 19 Special Election.