CFAC votes to affiliate with IFT/AFT/AFL-CIO
CFAC NEWS | August 27, 2019
Congratulations on voting to affiliate with the IFT/AFT/AFL-CIO.
Fellow CFAC members:
Congratulations on voting to affiliate with the IFT/AFT/AFL-CIO. We have looked at our strengths, assessed our challenges and made the choice to move forward together. In practical and pragmatic terms, we chose to align ourselves with an organization that will allow us access to greater resources – an important choice. But we also made a more invigorating choice with this vote; we dared to embrace the growing power of workers in Higher Education. CFAC members chose to stand in closer solidarity with colleagues across the state and across the nation, in a shared fight to protect quality education for our students and quality working environments for educators.
A union is only as strong as its members and - once again - CFAC members showed our union’s strength and made their voices heard. 57% of those eligible voted. 76% were in favor of affiliation.
We thank you for your participation and we look forward to our future, standing side by side with our 130,000 IFT members in Illinois alone.
In solidarity,
CFAC SC
Diana Vallera, CFAC President, Photography
Andrea J. Dymond, CFAC Vice President, Theatre
Lisa Formosa-Parmigiano, CFAC Secretary, CTVA
Susan VanVeen, CFAC Treasurer, Business
Luis Contreras, CFAC Membership Chair, IAM
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