RSVP TODAY FOR GFT’S 10TH ANNUAL CONVENTION!
GFT's 10th Annual Convention will be on Saturday, March 25, 2017 from 6 - 10pm at the Hotel Nikko, Tasi Ballroom. Newly elected At-Large Officers will be sworn in and Stewards, Committee members and Retired members will be recognized. There will be...
Representing GovGuam Agencies and Alutiiq Bus Drivers
GFT, AFT Local 1581, exclusively represents the Guam Department of Education Teachers and Support Staff, Guam Memorial Hospital Nurses and Staff, University of Guam Support Staff, Guam Community College Support Staff, Guam Waterworks, Guam Fire Department, Department of Public Health and Social Services Eligibility Specialists, Guam Port Authority, Department of Public Works Bus Drivers, Alutiiq Bus Drivers, Guam Police Department, Customs and Quarantine, Guam Behavioral Health and Wellness Center and the Department of Corrections, Port Authority of Guam Police I and II, Port Security Guard (Armed), Psychiatric Nurses, Psychiatric Technicians, and Department of Public Works Sanitation Division.
GAIN’S CAT OF THE WEEK
Tabitha will calmly find the path of least resistance into a lap ready to be warmed by her presence. She will stalk toys with a vengeance to satisfy her hunting instincts but always returns with the roar of a kitten. Her Tabby stripes run in patterns that could...
LIFTING THE PREVAILING WAGE FOR FEDERAL CONTRACTS IS GOOD FOR GUAM’S FAMILIES
Guam's families need more opportunities to have good, middle class jobs. Wages have been driven so low over the years making it difficult for Guam's workers to have a decent lifestyle. Hawaii Representative Abercrombie's amendment to the National Defense Authorization...
WHY A PUBLIC HEALTH INSURANCE OPTION IS KEY TO SAVING COSTS
Recent estimates of the high cost of reforming the health care system leave out one critical detail: If the reform included a strong public health care option, it could actually save trillions of dollars over time, while also providing universal coverage. The...
230 ECONOMISTS VOICE SUPPORT FOR EMPLOYEE FREE CHOICE
The Employee Free Choice Act is absolutely necessary to help workers rebuild the economy, according to a statement signed by 230 economists. In the statement, many of America's top economists, including Nobel Prize laureates, explain why the new law to protect...
GAIN’S DOG OF THE WEEK
Taji will make her own niche in your family palace as long as she doesn't have to live in the dungeon. Her deepest desire is to be a lap dog but since she is on the bigger end of petite her size might limit her to being a beside the lap dog for a lap of limited room....
GAIN’S CAT OF THE WEEK
Chorizo might confound by being seeming not to pay you any attention when he is really intent upon your every move. His intent is to surprise you with a demonstration of his agility and ingenuity to bring an inanimate toy to life. He has a delightful way of drawing...
GAIN’S CAT OF THE WEEK
Chorizo might confound by being seeming not to pay you any attention when he is really intent upon your every move. His intent is to surprise you with a demonstration of his agility and ingenuity to bring an inanimate toy to life. He has a delightful way of drawing...
GFT WINS!
GFT received a total of 9 awards at the AFTCN Awards Ceremony on Thursday, June 18, 2009 at the National Labor College in Silver Spring, Maryland. Many AFT Locals were present and received several awards as well. Good communication is one of the most important...
ORGANIZING AND MOBILIZING WITH FLAIR
For four days next week, the campus of the National Labor College (NLC) in Silver Spring, Md., will reverberate with the sounds of music, poetry and creative chants and art. From June 20-23, some 100 union and social justice activists will participate in the annual...
WE NEED QUALITY EDUCATION FOR OUR STUDENTS NEXT SY09-10
We must carefully invest the $108M in Federal stimulus money into providing quality education for our children. We know from the recent problems in the past years, poor working conditions in the schools were a major problem that disrupted a lot of learning time for...
HEALTH CARE- WE CAN’T WAIT
The nation has "an historic opportunity" to reform health care and bring down the spiraling costs that are driving families to the brink of—and too often into—bankruptcies, forcing employers to drop worker coverage and threatening the federal budget. In a Point of...
AUSTRALIA: LABOR MUST PROTECT WORKERS’ RIGHTS AND GET RID OF UNFAIR IR LAWS FOR CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
The Rudd Labor Government must protect workers' rights and get rid of the Howard Government's unfair industrial relations laws for the construction industry when it brings in new legislation this week, says the ACTU. The Government's announcement today that it will...