Cry Wolf...

An open letter to Maryland State Governor Martin O'Malley from AFT-Maryland President, Marietta English.

The letter expresses concern and disappointment with the inability of our political leaders to reach agreement over our state budget. 23 counties and the city of Baltimore will lose over $260 million, with the impact hitting hardest in areas that are most reliant on state revenues and that can least afford the reductions.

Everyday people will be affected in every way.

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Since 1999, Education Austin has assertively represented the interests of all AISD employees before the AISD administration through a process called elected consultation.  Since 1999, AISD has held an election every four years to determine which employee organization will represent the workforce in consultation, and Education Austin has either won decisively or has been unopposed.  Unfortunately,  the district is considering changing the current consultation process.

We need your help NOW and on Wednesday, April 18, to tell the district to continue elected consultation.

·       Please send an e-mail message from www.austinisd.org/consultation-policy-feedback to AISD as soon as possible, but no later than this Friday, April 13, at 5 PM, insisting that the current consultation policy has worked well for AISD employees and needs to continue.  Use your own words, but suggested points could include:

-- school board members are elected by majority vote; why shouldn’t AISD employees elect their consultation representative by majority vote?
 

-- opening consultation to every employee organization would be confusing and would unnecessarily weaken the one strong voice that has won pay raises and needed policy changes under elected consultation.

-- only Education Austin has the capability and willingness to advocate at the district-wide level for employees

-- Education Austin represents certified and classified employees equally

-- the consultation agent should be able to freely address the school board and the administration

·       Attend AISD’s all-staff meeting on Wednesday, April 18, from 6 PM to 8:30 PM at McCallum High School cafeteria, 5600 Sunshine Drive.  Tell the administration directly that elected consultation has served you well and you don't want any changes that would limit our voice.

Additional Resources

Additional Resources

Please click on the Title above to download the 2012 Memorandum of Agreement.

Left to Right: Tom Frech, Robert Donnelly, Joanna McAvoy (union rep), Ed Howard, Jessie Thatcher

Member participation on the survey was very high.

The MSFF annual membership meeting has been rescheduled from April 11, 2012 to April 18, 2012.  The membership meeting will be held from 4:30 to 6:16 at the Golda Meir Center, downstairs, at 1146 9th Street Park.