Toombs
Americannoun
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Charles Toombs, president of the California Faculty Assn., said raising minimum pay for the lowest-paid instructors, who make up more than half of the union’s 29,000 members, was a “massive and historic” win.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2024
“The collective action of so many lecturers, professors, counselors, librarians and coaches over these last eight months forced C.S.U. management to take our demands seriously,” Charles Toombs, president of the union, said in a statement.
From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2024
Charles Toombs, association president, has said the union favors cutting “administrative bloat.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2023
Charles Toombs, president of the California Faculty Association, which is backing the California State University students’ unionization efforts, said it is unacceptable that some student workers struggle to make ends meet.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
A regiment of G. T. Anderson’s that had been on guard all night was not relieved in time to join the march, and remained with Toombs.
From From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America by James Longstreet
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