The NMHU Faculty Association’s bargaining team reached agreement on the two articles we bargained this year.  If successfully ratified by both the faculty and the Regents, we will have contracts ready for our signature at the start of Professional Development days!  The two articles we agreed to bargain this year were salary (we bargain salary every year) and a small change in Article 14 Sabbaticals.  If you remember, we signed an MOU with the administration that we would bargain a part of this article, to help ensure the fair and equitable treatment of all faculty on sabbatical.  We will be sending the new language out in these two sections to our union members for ratification.  Here is an overview:

·      All bargaining unit members will receive a 1% increase in salary (this is the first raise we have received in a few years.  Also, because the Legislature didn’t mandate a pay raise for this year, the administration wasn’t under any obligation to give us any adjustment.

·      A paragraph was added clarifying what can and cannot be done during sabbatical.  This language was drafted directly from the results of the faculty’s sabbatical survey last spring.

We will be sending the new language out for ratification to our members.  Bargaining Team Members:  Donna Woodford-Gormley (Chief), Ian Williamson, and Kathy Jenkins

A public service announcement for our members — If you do not already process a Lifetime America the Beautiful National Parks & Federal Recreational Lands Senior Pass now is the time to get one. The passes currently cost $10, but the price will increases to $80 on August 28. A new $20 annual Senior Pass will become available at the same time.

NYSUT Phone banks for the Constitutional Convention Vote No campaign will begin August 1st and will continue every Tuesday until Election Day. The location is the Suffolk Nysut office at 150 Motor Parkway , Hauppauge ( Third Floor). Hours are 10:30-1:30. Lunch will be provided. 

UPDATE: Ballots for the 2017 BCFPE Election for all Union Officers are in the mail via Elections USA. Please be on the lookout for your ballot in the mail. If you have not received a ballot by September 18, 2017 please notify the committee chair immediately to receive a replacement ballot. Replacement ballots can be requested no later than September 18, 2017. All requests for replacement ballots must be in writing. No ballots will be faxed, emailed, or sent by express courier. [SEE NOTICE.]

Please see linked documents below regarding BCFPE Elections for all Union Officers to take place in September 2017, and submitted candidate bios. 

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AFT St. Louis was chartered June 11, 1935 as Local 420 with the American Federation of Teachers. The union was integrated BEFORE the St. Louis Public Schools in 1935. AFT national and our Local have stood for diversity and acceptance and against racism and segregation from the start.

The Texas AFT honored Ruth Skow at the State Convention this summer in El Paso by awarding her the Harley Hiscox Pioneer Award.

By Dr. Kathy Jenkins, President of the NMHU Facutly & Staff Association 

The Long Island Museum in Stony Brook invites all amateur and professional artists to submit up to three pieces of art representing the Animal Kingdom; a favorit pet, a memorable adventure, a scene from nature … It's a jungle out there and the Museum want to see what Long Island artists have to share.