STRS and Health Care Update

News from St. Patrick’s Day STRS

Board Meeting

PSI calls on all its affiliates to support the reinstatement of of two union leaders dismissed in February 2014 with 22 other workers, following a nationwide strike in protest of working conditions and the lack of protective equipment and medication.

From April 26 to April 30, the Friends of the Westfield Memorial Library will be offering any teacher with proof of employment "buy 1, get 1 free" on regularly priced books during its annual used book, dvd and cd sale. The book sale financially supports the Library and such expensive Friends’ activities as the Children's Programs and the Museum Guest Passes.  Regular prices are $2 for hard backs; $1.50 for trade paperbacks and $.50 for paperbacks. On April 29, all items will be half-price and on April 30 $5 buys a supermarket bag full of items, with each additional bag only $3.

Colleagues,

Please post the attached flyer in your school!

Next Wednesday, the NTU and AFT will be having a meeting at Malcolm X. Shabazz High School to discuss Community Schools.

We invite anyone interested to know more about Community Schools to join us! It is important that NTU members and the community be involved in this process!

Malcolm X. Shabazz High School

80 Johnson Ave

On March 22, 2016, investors and education stakeholders met with Pearson shareholders at the Council of Institutional Investors’ Spring Conference in Washington, D.C. On the agenda was Pearson’s lackluster stock performance, souring public opinion, and the economic imperative for Pearson to reevaluate their approach to the business of education. View the presentations in several languages below.

John M. Abeigon's speech at NPS Advisory Board meeting, March 16, 2016.

AFT-Maryland President Marietta English Statement on Supreme Court 4-4 Split Decision in Friedrichs Case

Colleagues,

Attached is a letter the Ed Law Center sent to the Commissioner of Education and the School Development Authority in regards to the high level of lead in our water.  We continue to monitor the situation and will report out anything that comes out of this.  

Negotiations Survey

Please go to https://leadernet.aft.org/webform/negotiations-survey-spring-2016 and fill out the negotiations survey, if you haven't already done so.

This information helps us to prepare our positions and interests for negotiations, and it is also good data to share with the District. It helps us to have a strong position if ALL OF OUR MEMBERS take the survey.