AFT president Randi Weingarten joined a large crowd of teachers, students, parents and other union supporters at City Hall in Providence March 2 to protest the mass firing of all the city's public school teachers.
"I thought the only insanity was in Wisconsin, not in Rhode Island," Weingarten said.
3/3/11 (AFT.org)
In what NYSUT President Dick Iannuzzi called “an attack on collective bargaining,” the state Senate recently passed a bill that would dismantle fairness in layoffs for New York City teachers.
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Rhode Island school district issues pink slips to nearly 2,000 teachers in effort to deal with massive budget deficit ...
AFT locals, AFT Healthcare-Maryland, MPEC, and MCEA joined other labor organizations in Annapolis March 1st to share testimonies from retirees on the effects of changes to their pensions and healthcare.
ALBANY, NY –New York State United Teachers President Richard C. Iannuzzi today called a Senate bill that would dismantle fairness in layoffs “an attack on collective bargaining.”
“This evening’s bill attempts to strip away seniority -- the heart of fairness in layoffs. A ‘yea’ vote was a vote against public employees,” Iannuzzi said. “You will hear from some who voted for this horrific bill that it’s only a 'one house' bill; it would only apply to New York City or is simply designed to 'start' a conversation. None of these excuses and lame attempts at disguising the real significance of this vote is acceptable.”
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