Context

MOU

MOU BREAKDOWN

PPE FOR LFT MEMBERS

DON’T FORFEIT OUR FUTURE: PASS THE HEROES ACT

Public employees make up many of the essential workers throughout Maryland working on the front lines during this pandemic. They continue to show up and do their jobs to help cities, counties, and the state maintain some semblance of normalcy during this difficult and unusual time. Just because someone is a hero at work, doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be well protected.

Across the state, Marylanders have made significant sacrifices in the face of the COVID-19 global pandemic. As public employees, health care professionals, and education professionals, you know how vital and essential the public sector is to Maryland.

By emergency proclamation of the Governor, the 2020 Presidential Primary Election has been postponed to June 2, 2020. This election will be primarily a “vote by mail” election. This means that ballots will automatically be mailed to all eligible voters. You should receive your ballot in early to mid May.

Local 420 has adopted two main goals for reopening our schools. 

First, to make sure that when our schools do reopen they are safe for students, staff, and the students’ families.  In consultation with the St. Louis Department of Health according to CDC guidelines;Our second goal is that our students will receive quality instruction which will result in successful outcomes for them and our community.

In consultation with the St. Louis Department of Health according to CDC guidelines; https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/schools-childcare/guidance-for-schools.html and AFT’s Plan to Safely Reopen America’s Schools and Communities; https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/covid19_reopen-america-schools.pdf  in order to increase our probability of success.

Our second goal is that our students will receive quality instruction which will result in successful outcomes for them and our community. No matter whether that instruction in on-line, blended; https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/education/story/2020-05-03/school-districts-may-switch-to-blended-learning-an-area-dominated-by-charter-school, site-based or any combination of the three

To that end, three of our experienced Building Stewards have been appointed to the SLPS Restart School Task Force.  They are:

●                    Kathy Gregory/Griscom – Instruction subcommittee

●                    John Moore/Clyde Miller – Facilities & School Operations subcommittee

●                    Carron Johnson/Gateway Middle – CoChair/Facilities & School Operations 

Please feel free to email any ideas and suggestions you may have to communications@stltu.org

May 21st, 2020 - Website News

With the recent name change from Edmonds Community College to Edmonds College, we are making changes to the local (AFT Local 4254) website. We are changing the website address to http://edcfedt.wa.aft.org (Edmonds College Federation of Teachers.) Please update your browser bookmarks to reflect this change. You will also be seeing some changes to the banner and other references to the new name. The site also looks a little different than before. We have updated the layout of the site to make it more responsive on tablets and mobile devices.

Feel free to contact us (About Us > Contact Us) if you have any questions or concerns.