Celebrating Our #UnionStrong Wins in 2025–26
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Our Year of Action
Our Union Wins
Paid Pregnancy
Leave
Our union fought for
and won this State
Budget milestone
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Our Fight
for Health Care
Strikes, actions lead
to big gains
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C O N T E N T S
Photos this page: Little Lake Education Assn. and United Educators of San Francisco (UESF) members on strike earlier this year. Cover: UESF
members and allies march to City Hall; photograph by Zoe Hertz, @zoziehertz.
Advocacy
26 STATE BUDGET: Among our
wins: Paid Pregnancy Disability
Leave, and ongoing funding for
Community Schools.
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ELECTION 2026: Richard Barrera
makes the November run-off;
Xavier Becerra for governor.
In the Know
32 News & Notes
Our Union
37 MANAGE STRESS: The Calm app.
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REPORT: CTA's Economic
Benefits Trust Member Welfare
Benefit Plan.
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OUR VISION FOR PUBLIC
SCHOOLS: Let's dream big
together!
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YES ON PROP. 3: We must win at
the ballot box to protect billions
in school funding.
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MINI-POSTER: for #YesOn3
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