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JOIN ACC-AFT!
We are affiliated with the national American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the state organization, Texas AFT. We organized in 1999 and have members from all classifications of non-administrative ACC employees: Classified, Prof-Tech, Adjunct, Hourly and Full Time Faculty. We are separate from the employee associations at ACC and are therefore free to pursue our goals without administrative influence.
We are dedicated to improving the salaries and health insurance of all employees, including protecting the rights of all ACC employees. Building a large and strong membership is the key to these endeavors. Join us today!
If you would like representation for grievances and access to our Legal Defense Fund and Labor Attorney, you MUST become a member now, before your problem begins. Click on "Membership" to fill out a membership form.
- Our union is a professional organization regularly engaged in the life of the college district. Membership dues support advocacy on workplace issues, training events, and career protection.
- If you believe faculty should have a voice in educational issues, you should join.
- If you believe employees should have a voice in the political process, you should join
- If you believe in the value of employees helping out each other, you should join.
- If you believe employees should be treated with dignity, fairness, and respect, you should join.
- Your dues help support these values!
Member dues amounts are as follows:
- $40.05/Mo - Full time Faculty
- $29.53/Mo - Calssified/Prof.Tech
- $23.36/Mo - Adjuncts & Part time hourly employees earning more than $12,000/yr
- $18.16/Mo - Adjuncts and part time hourly employees earning less than $11,999/yr
What We Should Expect From Higher Education Institutions Regarding COVID 19
We need to band together as one to safeguard our careers, our profession, and to advocate for ourselves and our students. Our guiding principles for Higher Education institutions regarding COVID-19 is laid out here.
Your COVID-19 Resource Guide for Higher Ed. Employees
Your union, ACCAFT, wants to make sure you are safe and have resources available at your 
fingertips!
FIRST, check this link out! https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/covid19_aft-aaup_guidanceprinciples_031320.pdf
Coronavirus: Information for educators and support staff
Get information from the American Federation of Teachers about what faculty and staff can do to safeguard against the virus, as well as what schools can do regarding preventive schoolwide and districtwide policy.
For complete information and details for higher ed. employees, see the full bulletin.
Help students understand infectious disease and find tools to protect yourself and your community on AFT’s Share My Lesson online collection of lesson plans and resources
You’ll find everything from news program videos to research projects and analyses of past epidemics. You can also visit Texas AFT an the CDC for additional updates and resources.
Click here to see AFT President, Randi Weingarten on CNN addressing the issue of COVID-19 in schools.
Click here to get updates from the Austin Community College website.
What unions do
In AFT President Randi Weingarten’s latest New York Times column, she describes what it is exactly that unions do. Though unions are the most popular they have been in decades, anti-union sentiment still thrives in red states and across the nation. “Several years ago, The Atlantic ran a story whose headline made even me, a labor leader, scratch my head: ‘Union Membership: Very Sexy,’” Weingarten writes in the column. “The gist was that higher wages, health benefits and job security—all associated with union membership—boost one’s chances of getting married. Belonging to a union doesn’t actually guarantee happily ever after, but it does help working people have a better life in the here and now.” Click through to read the full column.
A torrent of censorship
Nearly 250 years since our country’s founding, some Americans are still attempting to restrict others’ basic freedoms. In Florida and elsewhere, censoring books is part of larger efforts to exert greater control over and undermine education.