Approximately 31,000 employees from five unions in CT, Massachusetts and Rhode Island went on strike today to due to failed contract negotiations with their employer, Stop & Shop.  The workers walked off their jobs to protest the company’s proposed drastic and unreasonable cuts to health care and take home pay, issues unresolved at the bargaining table.  Without a contract since late February, last month union members gave their negotiating team the authorization to call a strike.  That strike went into effect at 1:00pm today, when the five New England United Food & Commercial Workers locals representing unionized employees at Stop & Shop authorized the strike and asked union members to walk off the job.  The unions have been without a contract since February.  The company’s latest contract proposal includes the following drastic cuts:

• Requires the average full-time employee to pay an additional $893 in weekly health care premiums over three years.
• Reduces the monthly pension benefit for many newly hired full-time employees by 32 percent.

A&R supports workers' rights - including the New England United Food & Commercial Workers right to strike!

We encourage all A&R members to respect the UFCW picket lines - and ask that union members not cross their picket line.  Support these striking workers by taking your business elsewhere.

We encourage everyone to buy and shop union whenever possible.  To make this easier, here is a list of union grocery stores in Connecticut represented by the United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW).  We thank the AFL-CIO CT for providing this list.

• Shop Rites in the following towns: Hamden, West Haven, Milford, East Haven, Stratford, Enfield, West Hartford, Canton, and Orange
• ACME Markets: Riverside, New Canaan, Greenwich, and Stamford
• Fairway Market: Stamford
• Food Bazaar: Bridgeport
• Kings Supermarket: Greenwich

It's that time again! 

Instructional employees have the option to either grieve or appeal a procedural error concerning their evaluation score. This form below is for an appeal.  Please inquire with your Field Representative at 407-298-0758 or orangecta@gmail.com for further information.

Some common procedual errors include the following sample issues:

A&R occassionally coordinates a large professional development event for the membership.  This year, we will be hosting a day at the Water's Edge in Westbrook, CT on Friday May 24th.  This event will accommodate a maximum of 250 attendees, so there is limited space available.   The conference check-in will begin at 7:30AM with sessions starting at 8:30AM.  This will be an all day event consisting of 4 workshops.  Each attendee will be assigned to all 4 workshops.  There will be a continental breakfast in the morning, lunch at mid-day, and snack in the afternoon. 

In recent weeks, various press reports have indicated that Governor Lamont has held talks with labor.  Such reports can be misleading.   While meetings with “labor” have been held – these were meetings with labor organizations with no authority or jurisdiction to negotiate for SEBAC.  No meetings or discussions have taken place between the Governor’s office and SEBAC.  SEBAC, the State Employee Bargaining Agent Coalition, is the exclusive representative of state employees to negotiate healthcare and pension benefits.  The current SEBAC agreement does not expire until June 30, 2027, with job security provisions of that agreement effective through June 30, 2021.  Given these facts, A&R's position is that SEBAC leadership has no reason to currently be in discussions with the Governor’s office.  In fact no such meetings have taken place –  and none have been scheduled.

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Everyone should have received their A&R ballot in the mail by now (it was mailed on April 4).  This year, our annual balloting is on Constitutional Amendments only.  This is an electronic ballot and your username/password credentials are printed on the documents received in the mail.  If you have any issues with voting or if you have misplaced or not received your ballot, send an email to office@andr.org which includes your name/employee id, and personal email address so we can contact our online voting vendor (BigPulse) who will follow-up with you.  

When you visit the voting website, you need to type in the entire address listed:
https://www.bigpulse.com/p54923/signin

There are only 6 Yes/No questions on A&R Constitutional Amendments, these suggested amendments where passed by the Amendment Advisory Committee and by the Representative Assembly and now require a 2/3 vote of the membership in order to be accepted.  This entire process shouldn't take more than a couple of minutes, so please take the time to vote.  Balloting closes at 11:59pm on Wednesday April 24th and the results will be announced at the A&R Convention on April 25th.

Also, at the next RA meeting (Tuesday May 14, we will be selecting chairs for the following committees, if you are interested in joining any of these committees, please send an email to office@andr.org to let us know or simply attend a meeting as they are open to all A&R members.

Professional Development
Health and Safety
Communications
Social
COPE (Committee on Political Education)

As promised, we have posted the new contract which incorporates all of the memorandum of agreements since 2012.

 April 9, 2019

Dear Members and all OCPS teachers,

TRANSFER FAIR AT EDGEWATER HIGH SCHOOL , Wednesday, April 17th, 4:00pm -7:00pm

JOB FAIR AT UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL, Saturday, April 27th, 8:00am - 11:00am

RANDOLPH, NJ—The County College of Morris (CCM) chapter of the United Adjunct Faculty of New Jersey (UAFNJ) has recently launched an award for students who participate in television production in the campus media center.  The Gerard Bevan Award, valued at $500, will be given annually to a student who demonstrates professionalism and commitment in the weekly production of “CCM: All Access,” the College’s first weekly television program.

            Gerard Bevan was one of the founding faculty members at CCM when the College opened in 1968.  Hired into the English Department, Bevan developed and taught the College’s first speech courses.  A native of Scranton, Pennsylvania, Bevan received the baccalaureate degree in English from the University of Scranton in 1964 and the Master of Arts degree, also in English, from Duquesne University in 1966.  He taught at CCM for twelve years prior to departing in June of 1980. Bevan currently resides in Florida.

            Two students have been selected as the inaugural recipients of the award.  Daniil Barkov, a sophomore majoring in business administration from East Hanover, NJ; and Brenda Todd, a sophomore majoring in broadcasting arts and technology from Randolph, NJ, will be the first to receive The Gerard Bevan Award.  Barkov and Todd have both worked on “CCM: All Access” as on-camera talent and crew members since the show’s first season.

Daniil Barkov (left) and Brenda Todd (right) will be the inaugural recipients of the Gerard Bevan Award on April 23, 2019.

            “CCM: All Access” is a weekly talk show that is taped in the Alex DeCroce Media Center’s television studio, featuring interviews with faculty, administration, and students.  Production began in January 2018, and the show is now nearing completion of its third season.  The show is aired every Monday on Morris Educational Television (METV), and is also viewable on YouTube.

            For more information, please contact Julian Costa at jcosta@ccm.edu. To learn more about the CCM Adjunct Faculty Federation, visit http://ccmuafnj.nj.aft.org.