Come join with your sisters and brothers in Labor April 2, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. for Union Night in Annapolis at Lawyer’s Mall.

Bus will leave from AFT-Maryland, 5800 Metro Drive, 21215, at 5:15 p.m. and return from Annapolis at 9:00 p.m. Food and soft drinks will be served on the bus.

After the mass labor rally, we will lobby our legislators on important issues facing public employees, teachers, and PSRPs in Baltimore and across the State of Maryland.

Some of our issues include:

• Education Funding & the Kirwan Commission
• Ending Wage Stagnation and instituting competitive pay for Public Employees
• Fighting proposed conversions of the Teacher and State Employee Retirement System from a Pension to a 401(k) plan
• Solving the staffing crisis in state governmental agencies
• Defending the right of public employees to unionize and participate in their unions

TO RESERVE YOUR SEAT:
Contact Todd Reynolds at treynolds@aftmd.org 
or call (443) 320-4719 

For an event flyer, click here.

As a federation of public sector labor unions, the AFT-Maryland is committed to fair wages for all of its members. That commitment extends to the entire collective of Maryland workers. That’s why the AFT-Maryland has signed on and supports the Maryland Fight for 15. This call to raise the minimum wage for all workers to $15.00 per hour.

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