Bills of Interest
A list of bills being considered by the legislation. Read more.
A list of bills being considered by the legislation. Read more.
Legislators should reject a plan that would give faster access to in-demand community college classes to those students willing to pay more for the privilege. Read more
At our In-Service day this spring we had a great turn out of faculty who were interested in hearing a bargaining update and to put forth names for nominations to next years officers.
Please enjoy the meeting minutes from the Federation e-Board meeting on March 21, 2013.
AFT Pennsylvania joined with state Senate Democrats in calling for a moratorium on the requirements for students, teachers and schools associated with the new Common Core State Standards on Monday.
(updated 8/7/13) Click on the title of this article for a list of the Top Ten State Bills of concern to community colleges.
On April 15th, the Gallup-McKinley County School Board voted 5-0 to voluntarily recognize that it would bargain with the District's 285 Educational Assistants (EA’s). But the School Board had a different story for the New Mexico Public Employees Labor Relations Board (PELRB). After agreeing publicly to recognize the EAs as part of the union, the District put a halt to the process at the PERLB indicating that the EAs had not yet proven that they deserved the right to bargain collectively.
In our final NDPEA Legislative Update for the 2013 session of the North Dakota State Legislature, we have the final information on state worker pay, as approved by the Legislature, and NDEA has a new president, who will serve as the first-ever president of our merged organization, North Dakota United. You're going to want to read all about it.
*School Board goes back on promise to bargain with Educational Assistants*
NOTICE OF 2013 ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP AND BUDGET MEETING
The Annual Membership Meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, May 22, 2013, at 6:30 P.M. The location for the meeting will be at the Truax Campus, in room 322. Light refreshments will be served.