AFT Healthcare-Maryland President Debra Perry submitted testimony in favor of Senate Bill 483 February 20th. That bill proposes additional protections for workers in healthcare facilities. Perry’s testimony documented numerous incidents of violence that had befallen healthcare workers in state facilities and requested that legislators pass the bill SB 483.

The bill calls for the creation of a committee to study workplace violence prevention measures and the establishment of specific procedures that greatly reduce the opportunities for a violent incident to occur in state healthcare facilities.

CFT Convention (March 21-23)

Manhattan Beach

      Ballots for delegates to the CFT Convention will be in your boxes this week.  Voting will take place on Wednesday and Thursday. 

The "Contact Us" page has been updated with a current List of Officers, Negotiation Team Members, and Employee Reps.

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(Last updated 2/21/2014)

New Mexico budget shows commitment to public schools

New Mexico educators are celebrating their recent success in pushing the state Legislature to support a positive agenda for the state's public schools.

While the official percentage of unionized workers in America is cited as 11.3 percent, the AFL-CIO says that the labor movement is much larger than that percentage reflects. 

LFT President Steve Monaghan is on the air across Louisiana with the Federation's message for the upcoming legislative session.

More than 100 Louisiana Federation of Teachers members from New Orleans, Jefferson Parish, East Baton Rouge and other Louisiana cities and parishes turned out for an AFT town hall meeting at a downtown New Orleans hotel on Feb. 12. The town hall gave the members, as well as parents, community activists and others, an opportunity to hear from AFT President Randi Weingarten and Steve Monaghan, president of the Louisiana Federation of Teachers, and to provide feedback on the Reclaiming the Promise program.