Welcome to the new ECCFA Local 3791 Website!  The site is still under construction. If you need a document that you can't find here on the site yet, please contact ECCFA Webmaster Lauren Sullivan at lsullivan@elgin.edu. 

If you are not yet a member, but would like to join, please fill out the membership form here: https://eccfa.il.aft.org/join-union 

Once you are a member, follow these steps to be able to view the "Members Only" section of the website.

• Visit the new ECCFA website at https://www.eccfa.org/.
• On the right, you’ll see a Member Login box.  Under the blue Log in button, click “Register Here”.
• For the Member Number, input your IFT member ID.
• For the Local Union Number, input 03791.
• For your Login email address, IFT recommends using your personal email address.
• Create and save a password.
• Click Register.
• Visit the ECCFA website again. On the right, under Member Login, type your email address in the User ID field and the password you just created in the Password field.  Click Log in.

Federal immigration actions are rapidly expanding, with deadly consequences. The killings of poet Renee Nicole Good and nurse Alex Pretti by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minneapolis have brought intense focus on the use of excessive force. An AFT webinar, co-hosted by AFT President Randi Weingarten and AFT Massachusetts President Jessica Tang on Jan. 28, featured experts on immigration and the law. It highlighted AFT resources and showcased how our locals are showing up to minimize fear and trauma.

It is clear that higher education is under attack. The Trump administration has frozen funding for science, from cancer research to reproductive care; has hamstrung student financial aid programs; has stripped colleges and universities of diversity, equity and inclusion programming; has strangled affirmative action designed to expand access to college; and is demanding that some institutions sign a “compact” that forces them to adopt Trump’s ideology in exchange for federal funding.

Attacks on public education in America by extremists and culture-war peddling politicians have reached new heights (“lows” may be more apt), but they are not new. The difference today is that the attacks are intended not just to undermine public education but to destroy it.