Our Union kicked off a membership drive in January, with our leaders fanning out to every department to ask their co-workers to join together for a strong voice a work.

As management gave out copies of Adams' employee handbook last month, it conveniently glossed over one fact: if the employee handbook says one thing and our contract says something else, our contract is what governs!

House Republicans unveiled a bill last month that would slash nearly one billion dollars in Job Corps funding.

AFT president Randi Weingarten joined a large crowd of teachers, students, parents and other union supporters at City Hall in Providence March 2 to protest the mass firing of all the city's public school teachers.

"I thought the only insanity was in Wisconsin, not in Rhode Island," Weingarten said.

3/3/11 (AFT.org)

In what NYSUT President Dick Iannuzzi called “an attack on collective bargaining,” the state Senate recently passed a bill that would dismantle fairness in layoffs for New York City teachers.

Article from Newsday

Originally published: March 2, 2011 6:27 PM
Updated: March 2, 2011 8:57 PM
By YANCEY ROY  yancey.roy@newsday.com

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Originally published: March 2, 2011 8:01 PM
Updated: March 2, 2011 9:27 PM
By JO NAPOLITANO  jo.napolitano@newsday.com

Rhode Island school district issues pink slips to nearly 2,000 teachers in effort to deal with massive budget deficit ...

By Bailey Johnson  (CBSNews)

http://www.nysut.org/cps/rde/xchg/nysut/hs.xsl/mediareleases_16292.htm

AFT locals, AFT Healthcare-Maryland, MPEC, and MCEA joined other labor organizations in Annapolis March 1st to share testimonies from retirees on the effects of changes to their pensions and healthcare.