The California Federation of Teachers has targeted three priorities in the 2020 mid term election:
Proposition 25 (vote yes)
Governor (Jerry Brown)
State Superintendent of Public Education (Tom Torlakson)
The CFT is currently raising money and is seeking your assistance (money, volunteering) to get the job done. We hope to count on you to support your profession and fight for the improvements necessary to best educate the students of this state.
The House of Representatives recently passed a supplemental spending bill, HR 4899, that contains $15 billion for education spending. The point of the bill is to provide quick financial assistance to school districts in order to preserve teachers' jobs during these difficult times.
However, Senator Dianne Feinstein is balking at the measure.
Join your colleagues in AFT-Oregon Retirees. Stay connected, informed. Learn about AFT benefits that continue to be available to retirees, from insurance programs, discounts on museum exhibits, to car tires and more.
AFT-Oregon Retirees provides a venue for members who have retired to stay active in union activities, while continuing relationships with other retired members. AFT-Oregon Retirees are automatic members of the Alliance for Retired Americans, an organization created by the AFL-CIO to advocate for retiree issues in Washington, D.C.
Make sure your members who have recently retired stay active in the union. Send your list of newly retired members to Val Jack, AFT-Oregon Retiree Chapter President at retireepres@aft-oregon.org. Jack will contact these members about joining the AFT-Oregon Retiree Chapter. In addition, leave these individuals as “Active” in Membership Suite, but change their dues category status to “Retired.”
A rally scheduled for today protesting became exciting for non-tenure track faculty at Central Michigan University. CMU and the American Federation of Teachers agreed on Tuesday to recognize non-tenure track faculty as a bargaining unit.
Ian Fulcher, a project organizer for the AFT Michigan, said the agreement will allow non-tenure track faculty teaching at quarter time or greater to be in the union. Fulcher said it means those teaching three credit hours a semester will be included. If they didn’t they could just … undercut the union people and the students,” he said. Fulcher said the next step for the group is to go over lists with the university to see who is covered as well as negotiating a contract.
The Guttenberg Board of Education is seeking to provide little to no wage increase over the next three years, while our members become laid off and our class sizes grow.Meanwhile very little, if any, “shared sacrifice” is being discussed for the upper-levels of administration.We need you to ask, “why not”?
The Board would like to provide us with a less-than-comparable health insurance plan while we pay 1.5% of our salaries towards it. They would like us to extend our work hours without ample compensation.What are you willing to do about it? We will need to call upon all GFT members to support our alternate budget choices during the summer and into next school year.Researchers from AFT have begun analyzing financial information from the GuttenbergSchool District including financial statements and expenditures from the previous fiscal years.This analysis will help us to prepare economic proposals that are fair and reasonable, unlike those already proposed by the Board.Please be prepared to do whatever it may take to ensure our message is heard loud and clear by the Board.You will be updated via our website (http://nj.aft.org/gft) and other methods throughout the summer.
The GFT Negotiations Committee has met with the Board for a total of six meetings to date.The most recent meeting was held on June 9th, 2010.Our next meeting will be held on July 7th, 2010.The negotiations sessions are moving at a slow pace, in part because of the uncertainty of both the State and local budgets.Our voices must be heard on this issue.
Based upon your input, we have proposed about a dozen items (some are new contract articles while some seek to modify existing articles).We feel that our proposals are both practical and proactive in nature.For example, we have proposed a professional development language that is creative yet cost effective.Most of the Board’s proposals seek to eliminate long-standing benefits and to create more work for our members with little/no compensation.This is unacceptable!
Unfortunately, no provisions or new articles have been tentatively agreed upon to date, and the Board seems reluctant to make progress at the bargaining table.This is also unacceptable!Again, we need your support outside of the bargaining table as we continue to meet throughout the summer.
