Primary Elections
Welcome back! Hope you had a relaxing and restful summer. As the year begins it is time for our members to become engaged and enact change for our profession.
Advice From Attorney
Click Here: An Ounce of Prevention
Go Orange Day, Thurs. Sept. 4th
September is Hunger Action Month, and Thursday, September 4th is “Go Orange Day” in Baltimore. How are you and your community affected by hunger?
MHUSD-MHFT Contract 2012 - 2015 Revised July 1, 2014
Click here to download the current contract as a PDF.
Public Records/Open Meetings
The Department of Justice (DOJ) will be conducting FREE seminars about the Wisconsin Open Meetings Law and Wisconsin Public Records Law. DOJ FREE seminars about the Wisconsin Open Meetings Law and Wisconsin Public Records Law. Department of Justice experts will explain key principles and discuss recent updates. The in-person seminars are October 17 and 27; the webinars are on November 6. See the brochure for more details.
BCFPE Election: Official Ballots mailed 9/9/14
The “Official Ballots” for the 2014 BCFPE Elections for Officers and Delegates were mailed on September 9, 2014. If you have not received your ballot by Monday, Sept. 15, 2014, you should request a packet in writing immediately from the Election Chair, Josette George at BCFPE.Chair@gmail.com.
Please be on the lookout for the BCFPE envelope marked: OFFICIAL ELECTION BALLOT ENCLOSED. Follow the election instructions closely and vote for your BCFPE Executive Board Nominees!
Labor update from CFT and AFL/CIO
LABOR FAMILY NEWS
Provided from CFT
Judge’s final “Vergara” ruling an attack on teachers
Education unions to appeal
LOS ANGELES — The final decision rendered by Los Angeles Superior Court judge Rolf Treu today in the Vergara v. California case offered no new reasoning or information as to how stripping teachers of their workplace professional rights will help students gain a better education. In rolling back the protections that allow teachers to educate their students and advocate for them without fear of arbitrary and capricious retaliation, the judge has set back a century of well-reasoned law.
MHFT Newsletter -- June 29, 2014
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CCAFT UPDATE 8-29-14
Click here to see the 8-29-14 Update
August Bargaining update
The Bargaining Team from United Faculty of Florida-FSCJ met with the Administration/Board representatives on Wednesday afternoon until about 5:30. There were roughly 20-25 faculty members present. We presented our Compensation and Workload proposals first. Having heard Dr. Bioteau make repeated public statements that she would like to help us get our salaries up to the state average, we took her at her word. We proposed salary increases of $3306 and 3% for this year and $3305 and 3% for next year.
