Below are links to some excellent guides for bus drivers and attendants, paraprofessionals and secretaries.
Standards for a Profession - Paraprofessionals
Managing Student Behavior on the Bus
Dealing with Student Behavior Problems: A Guide for School Based Secretaries
Attention 911 Center employees! Please see attached grievance regarding the recent 8/15/17 email from 911 Admin revising SOP A-12 Sick Leave. BCFPE is working to get these changes rescinded and held in abeyance until after we have the opportunity to enter into collective bargaining on this subject.
Crabs were the order of the day at the City Union of Baltimore’s Crabfeast Saturday afternoon. President Antoinette Ryan-Johnson and the union welcomed more than one hundred members, family, and friends to the event which was held at Martin’s East in Middle River. Although crabs were the highlight of the gathering the event had a full menu.
Student Debt Clinics
www.aft.org/debtclinic
As a union, we are fighting to make college affordable to student debt manageable. We maintain www.forgivemystudentdebt.org as a resource for members who need to learn the language of free and underused federal programs that help many student loan borrowers lower their monthly payments, and in some cases, even have their debt forgiven.
The AFT-Maryland teamed up with the Baltimore Teachers Union, DTLR, and a number of other community groups to send children back to school the right way. The state federation spent Saturday afternoon in East Baltimore grilling hot dogs, shooting hoops, painting faces, passing out book bags and a doing a number of other exciting activities.
Below you will find the link to view the August - September - October Newsletter, Remember, just click on the link ending in .pdf to view it.
http://unit47.ct.aft.org/sites/default/files/article_pdf_files/2017-08/august-september-oct2017.pdf
As of the beginning of August, UUP (our parent union) and the state have been in negotiations for the successor to the contract that expired July 1st, 2016. At this time meetings have been scheduled into the fall to continue the talks. The other major unions negotiating contracts (CSEA, PEF) are in various stages of the negotiations process along with us. It is currently our hope the contract will be settled in Fall 2017/Early 2018. In accordance with the procedures from previous contracts, you must be on payroll in order to receive your retro payment. At this time, it is ap
