Get Out The Vote!
Come out and help HCSTA make phone calls for local candidates that support our students!! Issues that are vital to our classroom must be corrected and legislators need to make those changes.
Come out and help HCSTA make phone calls for local candidates that support our students!! Issues that are vital to our classroom must be corrected and legislators need to make those changes.
Your Negotiating Team met with the School on December 14th for our first working session. Our next session is schedule for Monday, January 11th.
We will be scheduling negotiating sessions on a regular basis in an attempt to reach a fair and equitable settlement. And we will be posting updates on this site after each session.
We want to thank all those unit members who participated in the bargaining survey, and we will strive to focus on the issues important to you.
As always, thanks for your patience and support.
With the help of the Senator O’Brien Campaign, below is material on Ted's postition regarding several important political matters. It is meant to cover issues so you feel informed about our candidate.
HCSTA is hoping some you will join us for a labor walk out of Ted’s house:
120 Thurlow Avenue, Rochester NY 14609.
585-697-0924
PWFT Advocate
Prince William Federation of Teachers
Reclaiming the Promise of Meet and Confer by PWFT President Bill Hosp
(And Public Discussion)
Tuesday, September 23, 7:00 p.m., East High School Forum Room
FREE & Open to the Public!
Part of “A Community-Wide Discussion of Issues in Public Education” Project Sponsored in part by Writers & Books, University of Rochester, Roberts Wesleyan College, Nazareth College, Rochester Teachers Association, and Coalition for Justice in Education
Improve Teacher Workload
In response to an outcry from members and non-members alike, BFT held a listening tour in the spring of 2014 at several campuses and invited all faculty and staff to participate. BFT listened as teachers, paras, and support staff told of needless and redundant paperwork, of meetings excessive in number and length, and in reduced autonomy among professional staff.
From what we heard on our listening tour, we developed the plan below, originally containing 12 items, consolidated into seven.
The Archived Newsletters for 2014 - 2015 are available simply click the more button on and select newsletter you would like to read.
Here are just a few of the many reasons to join BFT:
AFT members - active and retired - are encouraged to volunteer after school and on weekends during the fall election cycle for union phone banks, labor walks and literature distributions. Click here to sign up to volunteer or keep reading to find out how you can get involved...