Please click the link Official List of 2020 AFT Delegate Candidates to view the list.  

2020-2021 Chapter 48 Executive Board

President: Amy Knutson - Transportation

We need to band together as one to safeguard our careers, our profession, and to advocate for ourselves and our students. Our principles for Higher Education institutions regarding COVID-19 is laid out here.

We need to band together as one to safeguard our careers, our profession, and to advocate for ourselves and our students. Our guiding principles for Higher Education institutions regarding COVID-19 is laid out here.

June 13, 2020

As we learn that the cases of COVID 19 have spiked in our state, more people are urging caution in reopening schools in August. FEA conducted a poll just a few weeks ago while the coronavirus spread appeared to be on the decline. (See the results below.) Even during the decline, parents overwhelmingly said they wanted schools to proceed with caution.  They also indicated they put their trust in their teachers and their local school leaders in making decisions about how to safely reopen schools.

Retiree Council 18 Represents Retirees From: Baldwin, East Rockaway, Elmont Elementary, Floral Parl-Bellerose, Franklin Square, Freeport, Hempstead, Hewlett-Woodmere, Island Park, Lawrence, Long Beach,Lynbrook, Malverne, New Hydepark-GardenCity Park, Oceanside, Rockville Centre, Sewanhaka, Uniondale, Valley Stream, West Hempstead and the Woodward Children's Center. 

Please click the link Unofficial List of 2020 AFT Delegates to review the slates. 

Vermont leaders are sounding the alarm on highly regressive cuts being made to non-tenured faculty (lecturers) and staff at the University of Vermont.

The UVM administration plan a 25% pay cut to over 70 full-time lecturers. These educators make a little over $60,000 per year, on average. Many teach hundreds of students per semester. Part-time lecturers and staff members also face cuts. Lecturers make up more than half the UVM faculty.

As nurses, healthcare professionals, faculty and higher education professionals in Vermont we are heartbroken and angry about the latest killing in Minnesota by the police of George Floyd, an unarmed black man.

MPTA Benefit Fund for Active and Retired Members