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The long running battle to get an A&R contract has come to a significant point.  After many long days and late nights, we have hammered out a tentative agreement with the State.  The tentative agreement has been signed by both parties and will be subject to a membership ratification vote in July.

There were many issues that needed to be addressed and many provisions that we needed to protect.  As you will see, collective bargaining can lead to improved benefits, guaranteed by contract.  We covered quite a bit of ground in this agreement.

Some of the issues:

• Snow day shift closings won't incur use of accruals,
• Delayed Openings will allow full "ww" credit and ability to make up the time,
• "Essential Employees" will receive comp time if their normal shift is closed yet they work
• Maximum vacation accrual increased (payout remains capped at 480 hrs)
• AWS won't be denied or removed without a proper (expedited) hearing.
• If instructed to attend meetings outside employee AWS schedule requires 10 day notice or OT/Comp
• Funeral Time now includes memorial services and mother/father in-laws
• Stipend for volunteering to provide bilingual services
• Top Step Payment will be a permanent part of wages, no longer a bonus at risk
• Tuition/Professional Development funds will be paid retroactively
• Attorney CLEs will be covered (both cost and time)
• Telecommuting policy to be negotiated later this year
• Durational/temporary employees attain contract rights

Summary of the A&R Contract Tentative Agreement

What Happens Next...

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Welcome to the UBTO website. Throughout the year, check here for postings on news and events. Because the format of the webpage is a template and includes constant feeds from NYSUT, it may at first appear that there is little information on our union. Take a moment to look through the menu at the top, buried within it is UBTO information. As the new school year approaches, more information will be posted. In the meantime, check out recent photos.

I just wanted to share that eight of us were part of Morris Habitat for Humanity's Hammer for Heroes Event on Saturday, June 4, 2017.

Special thanks to Kevin Chen for donating the $250 Team Sponsorship Fee and to Marianne Perfetto (AAPF Secretary) for spearheading and organizing the volunteering efforts.

Click here for a link to an NJ Hills article regarding the event:

http://www.newjerseyhills.com/randolph_reporter/news/morris-habitat-event-builds-dreams-along-with-walls/article_62bc6c67-60dd-556c-bb7d-331f200555e9.html

- Shelley

Please click on the following link to view individual photos:

https://www.flickr.com/gp/151244263@N04/d4G4aw

The Detroit Goodfellows on June 14 announced the winner of the eighth annual Goodfellow Teacher of the Year contest — Gladys Clark, an eighth-grade teacher at Detroit Public Schools Community District’s (DPSCD) Thurgood Marshall Elementary-Middle School! 

Detroit Goodfellows board members surprised Clark in her classroom with the news and presented her with a $200 gift card to buy classroom supplies. Additionally, she will be acknowledged at the Detroit Goodfellows Annual Tribute Breakfast this fall. 

Our Donavon Gardner and Terrence Martin talk about American's teacher shortage challenge.

CLICK TO  HERE TO WATCH http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/02/a-potential-teacher-crunch-looms.html

Be prepared! Get a headstart, June 2 - 4 are tax free days in Florida for hurricane preparedness supplies.