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Joining the event were, Jack Nelson, Executive Director, Karen Coulbourne, MCEA Staff, Linda Day, MCEA President, and Debra Truitt, Chapter 72 President and Dale Maddox, Chapter 72 Vice President. 

Also, in attendance were Marty Guinane, Chuck Morrell and Virginia Kovaleski from AFT.

Those in attendance enjoyed hot dogs, fruit salad, chips, baked

MCEA LEGISLATIVE REPORT JANUARY 31, 2014 - BUDGET ISSUE

The budget bill is assigned to the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee and the House Appropriations Committee.  Contact the members of these committees and urge them to support full funding of the pension plan.  Do not use state equipment to contact your legislators, you may be charged with misuse of state equipment and face disciplinary action.  Contact information follows:

MEMBERS OF THE SENATE BUDGET AND TAXATION COMMITTEE - 1-800-492-7122

Chair, Edward Kasemeyer, District 12, Room 3 West Miller Senate Office Building, edward.kasemeyer

Linda Day, president of the Maryland Classified Employees Association (MCEA), was reelected to that position October 15 during the association’s Annual Convention in Ocean City, Maryland. Day is the only president to be elected to a consecutive second term in the 77 year history of the association. The convention, held October 14-16, featured gubernatorial candidate Anthony Brown as keynote speaker. Fred Mason, Jr., president of the Maryland/District of Columbia AFL-CIO; Joslyn Williams, president of the Metropolitan Washington AFL-CIO; James N. Mathias, Jr

Some in Washington, D.C., want to balance the budget on the backs of seniors, children, and people with disabilities instead of making millionaires, billionaires, and large corporations pay their fair share of taxes.

Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid have nothing to do with the nation's budget crisis, and are not responsible for the

This picture was posted on a Giant Screen in Seoul, South Korea last week at a Mass Union March, We are being seen on the other side of the World!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wallace F. Smith Memorial Scholarship Application

Each year the Maryland Classified Employees Association, Inc. awards its Wallace F. Smith Memorial

Scholarship to individuals seeking admission to, or attending, an accredited school of higher learning who

have a financial need, have set high goals, and have attained scholastic achievement.  MCEA’s Wallace F.

Smith Memorial Scholarship Committee will award a scholarship to one individual representing each of the Association’s five geographical areas.

Qualifications for applying for the 2013 Wallace F. Smith Memorial Scholarship

A.       Must be a

MCEA was proud to  be part of that Joint Conference. AFT President, Randi Weingarten, MCEA President Linda Day. MPEC President Deborah Perry, Barnard Jones, Judith Dotson,