Your Voices Matter was the focus of the TEACH 2015 (Together Educating America’s Children)

The AFT TEACH conference held July 2015 in Washington, D.C, celebrated the work we do and provides inspiration for the work that lies ahead. Educators, union leaders, administrators, activists, and civic and community leaders came together for high– quality workshops, overviews of innovative work, exciting demonstration of the latest educational technology, thought-provoking keynote speakers and much more.

Class size and Supply Survey - In order to collect the many class size and supply violations we have been receiving already this year, we have created a survey on Google Docs.   We will be using this information to report out to the Newark Board of Education and the NJDOE.   Please fill out the survey: https://forms.gle/bFkwBin4qoMAq59t8

Colleagues,

Adjunct faculty are eligible to join UFCT! According to Article III of the UFCT Consitution (rev. 2009), all academic personnel, active and retired, as well as any instructional and unclassified employees who serve in the UL System, the LSU System, or the LCTCS System are eligible for membership in the United Federation of College Teachers.

Adjuncts need and deserve representation; consider UFCT as your voice!

Tuesday! Please come to the EMU Regent's meeting Tue.Oct 13 in Welch Hall (public meeting starts at 1:30) to support EMUFT Part-time Lecturers who no longer get paid on the first pay-date of each semester. We need as many members as we can get to show up, wear a red EMUFT t-shirt, and show solidarity. Our workplace is our students’ learning space. PTLs who can’t afford to pay bills or buy groceries for the month of September still go to work and teach their classes. Please help PTLs to be treated like every other employee group on campus and be paid on time by coming to show your support.

Are you a part-time lecturer who didn't get paid on Sept 15? Do you have bills of your own to pay? Have you struggled to make ends meet? Do you think PTLs should be treated like other faculty and be paid on time? Do you have a story to share? We'd like to share our stories with EMU. Write down your story (in a sentence, or a paragraph, or more) and send it to emuft9102@gmail.com with the subject: "part-time pay story." We'll compile them anonymously so no names will be attached to the stories and deliver them to the Board or president of EMU. Depending on how many we get we may bring them to the meeting on Tue., or deliver them later.

Colleagues,

1)      DYFS Update - It is October 6, 2015 and already numerous false allegations of child abuse have been made.  Please be adroitly aware that child abuse, child neglect and child lack of supervision charges are the stepping stone to discipline charges, terminations, increment denials and tenure charges.  We vigorously defend you when allegations are made, but it is imperative that as faculties talk amongst themselves of the serious consequences wrought by child abuse charges.  

Newark is calling on all outraged public school employees and their representatives, local and statewide supporters of public education to mount a candlelight vigil on the steps of Newark City Hall, 920 Broad Street, Monday, October 19th at 5 p.m. to protest another charter school opening at the Central Planning Board meeting.

In 1990, several school employees filed suit against the Terrebonne Parish School Board. The employees won; among other things the Davis v. Henry case established that public employees have "the same right to engage in collective bargaining as held by their counterparts in the private sector."

This has been Your Legal Moment with UFCT!

Sources:

1. Davis v. Henry, Supreme Court of Louisiana, 555 So. 2d 457 (1990)

2. Public Sector Labor Law: An Update, John Lund and Cheryl L. Maranto,1996.