The California Federation of Teachers is the statewide organization of teachers' unions to which your union, University-Council AFT (UC-AFT), belongs. At its recent convention, CFT delegates voted to ask members of CFT-affiliated unions to consider CFT's positions on the ballot propositions for the November election.

In an ongoing effort to study undergraduate student writing, the College Writing Programs is undertaking a research project to collect written assignments from faculty teaching undergraduate courses throughout the campus. The purposes of this research are to gain an accurate sense of the range and types of writing demands that students face in their undergraduate careers at Berkeley and to develop a collection of assignments that can be used to guide faculty in their work with students.

Over thirty UCLA faculty members have been politically targeted by the radical conservative Bruin Alumni Association (BAA).

Raoul Teilhet Scholarship Program

In 1997, the CFT established the annual Raoul Teilhet Scholarship fund, in order to help the children of members to achieve their higher education goals. The fund was named after long-time CFT leader Raoul Teilhet, who served the organization as president from 1968-1985.

An appeal from the national AFT to help displaced colleagues

More than 15,000 of our fellow AFT members were forced to evacuate their homes due to hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Thousands of our members still have no homes to return to, and in far too many cases, no jobs.