A&R confirmed the nomination of Christine Shanley-Buck as Chief Negotiator for the upcoming contract. Christine is a Legal Investigator at the Attorney General's Office and a steward for A&R. Christine will be working with 1st Vice President Mike Myles and our union attorney Barry Scheinberg on our continued preparation for negotiations.
Welcome to the Liberty Faculty Association website. We are the union that represents more than 1200 active certified educational professionals and 400 members who are retired in the Liberty Central School District. We are dedicated to advancing the professional lives of our members, and enhancing their terms and conditions of employment. The LFA is a forceful advocate for the professional conditions that permit our members to offer the best possible education to the students of the Liberty Central School District.
An AFL-CIO Budget Summary
The following is a summary both on recent efforts to repeal our Prevailing Wage laws and on the Joint Finance Committee’s activities over the last 10 days. After celebrating Memorial Day weekend, legislators returned to the Capitol last week only to launch further attacks on workers and Wisconsin’s working families through the budget and legislative processes.
The rights of employees to the presence of a union steward during investigatory interviews was announced by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1975 in NLRB v. J. Weingarten, Inc. Since that case involved a clerk being investigated by the Weingarten Company, these rights have become known as Weingarten Rights. An investigatory inverview occurs when a supervisor questions an employee to obtain information that could be used as a basis for dicipline or asks an employee to defend his or her conduct.
June 4, 2015
We have come to a critical point in Negotiations. Your voices have been heard! Thank you to those that have sent letters and emails stating your positions on the Districts proposals. The Team has represented all unit members through the proposals we have made to the District. The Team has yet to receive counter-proposals to most of the proposals that were presented, and have yet to receive any proposals we fully agree with. We continue the fight for a salary increase, an increased District contribution to medical benefits, and K-3 preparation time equity.
The June 2015 issue of NYSTRS' Resource newsletter is now available on the NYSUT website. Download the newsletter
RC 23 President Dennis Flamenbaum has provided a link to the Spring 2015 edition of Retiree Organizer, the NYSUT newletter for retiree leaders.
