Our heartfelt thoughts and prayers go out to our beloved sister, Christine M. Robertson, who passed away on November 12, 2017. Christine joined MCEA on May 1, 1971 and was a faithful hard working union member for over 46 years. Christine will be sorely missed by all that had the privilege to know her, and by those that benefited from her incredible talent, strength and efforts to improve the quality of life in the workplace for State workers. Your toil on this earth is done Christine, rest in heavenly peace, dear sister.

In November Treasure Coast TRIF members & their guests visited the Elliott Museum in Stuart.

We will begin negotiations for a new Collective Bargaining Agreement in the upcoming months. Click here to read more about our current CBA between NWRESD and OSEA 101 effective July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2018

http://101.osea.aft.org/sites/default/files/article_pdf_files/2017-11/os...

Many Sarasota members signed petitions to allow convicted felons who have served their sentence the right to vote.

For more information about the City of Baltimore’s benefit offerings, and plan changes , please go to

www.baltimorecity.essbenefits.com

Superior, WI – On Halloween, faculty, staff, and students at the University of Wisconsin in Superior were blindsided by the administration’s blanket announcement to suspend nine majors, fifteen minors, and one masters program.  Fifteen additional programs were put on “warning” for suspension.  These program suspensions are the latest in a string of brazen attacks on public higher education in Wisconsin, and have sparked student protests and an online petition that has garnered more than 5,300 signatures. 

AFLAC ENROLLMENT PERIOD IS HERE! 

The omnibus school code bill, Act 55 of 2017, became law on Nov. 5, 2017. Despite concerns about the furlough provisions, Governor Wolf allowed the bill to become law without his signature to ensure that state funds would be paid on time to public schools and to protect other provisions in the bill, including extending the moratorium on Keystone exams, requiring opioid abuse education and ending “lunch shaming” of students. AFTPA opposed the school code bill because it changes the way layoffs are conducted, places emphasis on a flawed evaluation system and interferes with collective bargaining rights.