Please click here to complete our Collective Bargaining Survey. The issues that are important to you are the issues that AFT Healthcare will take to the negotiations this summer when we bargaing a successor Memorandum of Understanding with the S

Please click here to complete our Collective Bargaining Survey. The issues that are important to you are the issues that MPEC will take to the negotiations this summer when we bargaing a successor Memorandum of Understanding with the State of Maryland.

In this week's NDPEA Legislative Update, we are waiting for a compromise to be hammered out between legislative leaders in the Senate and House toward state employee compensation. After that decision is made, a whole lot of other ones will fall into place. And we're happy to see the higher education overhaul measure go down in flames. Read all about it.

Listed below is information for early voting and Election Day.  Please click here for endorsement candidates for the May 4, 2013 Election.

EARLY VOTING:

2013 Spring Off Year Special Election:  May 4, 2013 General

Hey smart phone users! Have you downloaded NYSUT's MAC (member action center) app? FAX your legislators with the click of a button. It works too. I was standing in Assemblyman Lopez's office when another teacher sent a fax, seconds later the office fax machine went to work. If we don't speak-up for education who will?

The DFT and the DPS reached a settlement agreement [Download here] which resolved a number of disputes -- one of which was the lawsuit challenging the flawed evaluation, layoff, and recall procedures used by DPS. Approximately 422 teachers were laid off as a result of those flawed procedures, which were neither negotiated nor agreed to by the DFT.

Some of the highlights of the settlement are as follows:

On April 2, 2013, the Washington State Supreme Court in the case of Washington State Nurses Association (WSNA) v. Sacred Heart Medical Center (SHMC), reaffirmed its earlier unanimous decision upholding nurses’ statutory rights to be paid overtime when their duties prevent them from taking a rest period. Sacred Heart Medical Center’s motion for reconsideration of the Court’s October 25, 2012 (No. 86563-9,10/25/12) decision was denied, bringing an end to the long, hard-fought battle of the nurses for justice and protection of patient safety.

SCRANTON (April 4, 2013) – AFTPA Executive Vice President Rosemary Boland testified before the House Democratic Policy Committee on school safety, saying it’s impossible to discuss school safety without addressing school funding issues.