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UEA offers special incentive to new members

This year, UEA is offering a special incentive for new members. Here are the details of the offer and the benefits that come with full membership.

Normally, Active Membership for 2013-14 would be $12.84 more per paycheck. As a special incentive this year, we are waiving the local UEA component for those who sign on to Active membership.

This means you pay only an additional $49 over the course of the entire year in order to acquire the range of member benefits. At this special incentive rate, over 16 paychecks that is only $3.07 extra cost per paycheck.

(11/22/13) - Contact Dean Mancina at cfemancina@yahoo.com if you have had a recent issue with new or refill prescriptions via mail order or at a retail pharmacy and you are in the PPO plan. Some members have reported problems obtaining the quantity of pills your doctor prescribed, or getting the specific prescription drug your doctor prescribed. Some have been told the reason why is that our prescription plan changed. That's not true. Medco was bought out last year by Express Scripts, and we are starting to wonder if the company change is

(11/22/13) Your Negotiation Team has met with management for 24 hours over the last month in three all-day sessions. Click on this article's title to read a summary update.

Nov. 13 NEA Today: Lanier High School Gives a Lesson in Real Education Reform

Next fall, Mauricio Ramos will enter the University of Texas at Arlington to major in computer science. “My career goal is to become a computer programmer, definitely,” he says. When he was in his early teens, however, that didn’t seem imaginable to Mauricio or to his teachers. Like a lot of kids growing up in his East Austin neighborhood, Mauricio was making all the wrong choices. “Bad influences were sending me down the wrong path. I needed something to change. Luckily for me, I went to Lanier.”

UT Club Blasted from All Sides for ‘Catch an Illegal Immigrant’ Game

Austin American-Statesman Website, Updated: 8:55 p.m. Monday, Nov. 18, 2013

A student group at the University of Texas dubbed its mock sting operation “Catch an Illegal Immigrant,” saying the goal is to provoke discussion about an issue of national importance.

United Academics of Philadelphia, American Federation of Teacher’s (AFT) Local 9608 is a union dedicated to making higher education sustainable for the 15,000 adjunct professors teaching in Philadelphia-area colleges. We are organizing to build collective bargaining power, community and resources for a vital yet underrepresented majority of university faculties. Education is a public good, so we need to provide our students with a secure, respected faculty. Together, we can achieve what we cannot as individuals. Join us.

Washington State Legislators Urge UW to Negotiate a Fair Contract

Seven Washington State legislators, including Rep. Gerry Pollet and Rep. Larry Seaquist, vice-chair and chair of the House Higher Education Committee, wrote to UW President Young to encourage UW to negotiate a fair contract that provides a living wage and job stability for UW English Language Faculty.