Welcome back!!!
We hope your semester has gotten started with a minimum of craziness! There are a few things that AFT Part-time Faculty United would like to let you know about:
The American Federation of Teachers Local 212 at Milwaukee Area Technical College responded to President Trump’s decision to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that protects from deportation more than 800,000 young, undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children.
In an effort to help keep students safe, local teachers are distributing National Child Identification Kits to elementary and middle school students’ families.
Once more, we who are people of good will must resist the xenophobic policies of the President of the United States. His decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is President Trump doubling down on bad campaign rhetoric and turning it into harmful public policy. The nearly one million young people that this will affect nationwide are our friends, neighbors, colleagues, and union sisters and brothers.
The AFT-Maryland calls on our congressional representatives to
Below you wil find the link to the 2017-2020 Union Contract. Click on the link ending in .pdf to view it. Printed contract books will be distributed when completed.
http://unit47.ct.aft.org/sites/default/files/article_pdf_files/2017-09/unit47-2017contract.pdf
In keeping with annual tradition the AFT-Maryland joined other community groups and volunteers for the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America’s annual “Walk With the Stars” event in August. The state federation manned a table that provided books, voter registration, child identification kits, and a host of other important items.
Dear Union Brothers and Sisters,
In the wake of Hurricane Harvey which has brought untold suffering, destruction and devastation to the citizens of Texas, your help is desperately needed now. Although certainly our thoughts and our prayers are with those who have suffered through the aftermath, we need to do more to help those who have lost everything in life. Our fellow Americans have lost not only their homes and personal properties, they have also lost their jobs and even the bare essentials of human survival. Countless survivors are in disparate need of food, medicine, shelter and basic essentials. Can you imagine how it would be to wake up with only the clothes on your back? I cannot!
