January 1, 2021 ~ Bow, NH

Happy New Year!  It is time to wave a not-so-fond farewell to 2020!  One can only hope that 2021 is an improvement upon the year we all just endured.  Educators are exhausted, students are tired, health care workers are burning out, and NH’s COVID infection rates and the number of deaths continues to rise with unprecedented rapidity.  Meanwhile, as the NH Legislature prepares to resume its work in some sort of fashion, the Republican majority and the governor are preparing an unprecedented assault upon public education and upon labor unions.  So gird up, the next few months are going to be busy.  We will try to keep you informed as things develop and we will be asking for your aid and involvement as we work to prevent the gutting of public education and its privatization.  But first, let’s take a look at the context and setting, as the political circus prepares to open for the 2021 session.

                          ALL IN THE NAME OF EDUCATION:  TWO MINNESOTA WOMEN

                         JOINT EDUCATION MINESOTA RETIRED/WEAC RETIRED CONFERENCE                             

DECEMBER 23, 2020 — President Bill Garrity announced a series of memoranda of agreement (MOA) reached with management to try to address coverage of nursing shifts in critically understaffed areas.

See the documents and watch Bill's video message about them.

Dear Colleagues,

We want to wish you and your family a healthy and relaxing Winter Break. We know there is a lot of anxiety and confusion about what is happening with school opening in January.   We have all worked hard this school year, and you should just enjoy the Break.  The NTU continues to work closely with the Superintendent and the district’s Reopening Taskforce.  The NTU will not allow Newark’s staff and students to be put in harm’s way.  As soon as more information is available, we will get it out to you as we have since this pandemic began. 

JFT Update

December 21, 2020

COVID-19 Q&A

By: Larry Samuel, JFT General Counsel

On Friday, the Jefferson Federation of Teachers sent the following letter to Dr. Gray to highlight the concerns of JFT members and request that the district immediately move to virtual learning. You can read this letter in it's entirety

General Membership Meeting

Thursday, December 17th

5:30 P.M.

FROM THE LAWYER’S DESK

By: Larry Samuel, JFT General Counsel

COVID-19 Q&A