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MISSION STATEMENT►
The purpose of AFT local 6286 is to support quality education, advance
the cause of part-time faculty, provide service to members, and represent
unit members in their employment relations with the Victor Valley College
District. Through its work and its affiliation with the broader labor
movement, AFT Local 6286 seeks to promote quality public education and
support the rights of all workers.
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"All that harms labor is treason to
America. No line can be drawn between these two. If any man tells you
that he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar ... If a man
tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool." "There
is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the
other."
Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the United States
(1809-1865)
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"I consider it important, indeed urgently
necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect
their own economic status and also, generally speaking, to secure
their influence in the political field." Albert
Einstein
Charter Member
Princeton Chapter AFT
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"The labor movement was the principal
force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out
of its bold struggles, economic and social reform gave birth to
unemployment insurance, old-age pensions, government relief for the
destitute and, above all, new wage levels that meant not mere survival
but a tolerable life. The captains of industry did not lead this
transformation; they resisted it until they were overcome. When in the
thirties the wave of union organization crested over the nation, it
carried to secure shores not only itself but the whole society."
Martin Luther
King
Speech to the state convention of the Illinois AFL-CIO, Oct. 7, 1965 |
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