CUB Celebrates Summer with Crab Feast

Crabs were the order of the day at the City Union of Baltimore’s Crabfeast Saturday afternoon. President Antoinette Ryan-Johnson and the union welcomed more than one hundred members, family, and friends to the event which was held at Martin’s East in Middle River. Although crabs were the highlight of the gathering the event had a full menu.

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Student Debt forgiveness

Student Debt Clinics
www.aft.org/debtclinic

As a union, we are fighting to make college affordable to student debt manageable. We maintain www.forgivemystudentdebt.org as a resource for members who need to learn the language of free and underused federal programs that help many student loan borrowers lower their monthly payments, and in some cases, even have their debt forgiven.

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Back to School Block Party, East Baltimore

The AFT-Maryland teamed up with the Baltimore Teachers Union, DTLR, and a number of other community groups to send children back to school the right way. The state federation spent Saturday afternoon in East Baltimore grilling hot dogs, shooting hoops, painting faces, passing out book bags and a doing a number of other exciting activities.

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Negotiations Update

As of the beginning of August, UUP (our parent union) and the state have been in negotiations for the successor to the contract that expired July 1st, 2016.  At this time meetings have been scheduled into the fall to continue the talks.  The other major unions negotiating contracts (CSEA, PEF) are in various stages of the negotiations process along with us.  It is currently our hope the contract will be settled in Fall 2017/Early 2018.  In accordance with the procedures from previous contracts, you must be on payroll in order to receive your retro payment.  At this time, it is ap

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