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The AFL-CIO has launched its 2012 AFL-CIO Executive Paywatch site—now called CEO Pay and the 99%—which includes the most comprehensive data available on 2011 executive pay. All the data available is searchable by industry, by state and by the top 100 highest-paid CEOs.
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Many studies over the years have documented the need for smoother transitions from prekindergarten to the elementary level. A new AFT report reinforces that conclusion—and does it in a manner that puts frontline voices at the heart of the dialogue.
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The citizens of Ohio took back their state with a historic vote on Nov. 8 to repeal Senate Bill 5. The vote, which marks the first time that the collective bargaining rights of public employees have been upheld on a statewide ballot, sends a clear signal that Ohioans will not sit idly by while politicians scapegoat hard-working public employees for an economic crisis they did not create.
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President Obama's bold plan—the American Jobs Act—is the right antidote to help solve our persistent economic problems, AFT president Randi Weingarten says.
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Two longtime union activists and education reformers are assuming new roles in AFT's leadership, AFT president Randi Weingarten announced on Sept. 9.
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Every day, educators and other public employees, and the services they provide our communities, are being attacked. From challenging collective bargaining rights, to undermining the quality of public education and higher education, to decimating pensions and trying to put healthcare coverage further out of reach, working men and women across the country are under assault. And if this has taught us one thing, it's that Elections Matter.
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In a March 28 speech sponsored by the Commonwealth Club, AFT president Randi Weingarten challenged those who have blamed public employees and their right to collectively bargain as a cause of their states' fiscal problems.
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AFT Members Will Stand Together for 'We Are One' Week of Action
Workers' fundamental rights are under attack in a growing number of states. But as we have seen in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana and elsewhere, those attacks have inspired and motivated tens of thousands of union members to stand together for their rights. The challenge now, as AFT president Randi Weingarten put it in a recent e-mail to more than 1.5 million AFT members and allies, is to take this moment and turn it into a movement. One step in that direction is a "We Are One" Week of Action, starting April 4, that will bring together members from the AFT and other unions, along with our allies, to participate in events around the country. First, take the pledge to help make a difference. Once you take the pledge, you'll see lots of ideas for how to join in the week of action.
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AFT president Randi Weingarten on Feb. 24 proposed a new way to align teacher development and evaluation to due process for tenured teachers. Weingarten laid out a three-step process consisting of clear standards for what teachers should know and be able to do, a time-limited improvement and support plan for teachers deemed to be unsatisfactory according to the evaluation standards, and a hearing process that can take no longer than 100 days, which in many cases would be even more expedient.
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On Jan. 20, 1961, John F. Kennedy captured and crystallized a moment in history when he told America, "the torch has been passed to a new generation." To mark the 50th anniversary of this landmark inaugural address, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum has created a new website filled with groundbreaking multimedia that invites young visitors to explore the JFK legacy through such core themes as public service, civil rights and innovation.
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The bi-annual Technical Faculty and Staff Alliance/AFT Local 6083 Convention was held in Frankfort on Saturday, October 24, 2009. New officers were elected and the merger of TFSA with her sister AFT affiliate the Kentucky Community College Faculty and Staff Alliance/AFT Local 6010 was moved forward. Other major items discussed at the convention were the move from the KASE office and the legislative agenda for TFSA. |
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Even beofre the KCTCS Board of Regents officially voted to eliminate tenure rights both TFSA/AFT Local 6083 and KCCFSA/AFT Local 6010 began mobilizing members to take actions to at first stop and then restore tenure rights. Joints meetings were held across the state and union activists spearheaded the no confidence votes held across the system. It was members of both locals who testified at the legislature and helped pass a resolution supporting tenure rights. It was also the locals who paid for and sent a legal opinion in support of tenure rights that helped point out how the decision by the KCTCS Board violated the law. |
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MLA and Baylor student paper oppose KCTCS board vote to axe tenure
By BERRY CRAIG
What do the Modern Language Association and the Baylor University student newspaper have in common?
Both think the Kentucky Community and Technical College System’s Board of Regents made a bad move when it voted to end tenure for new faculty.
The MLA’s Executive Council “deplores the Kentucky Regents' decision to abolish tenure for all future hires in the Kentucky Community and Technical College System.”
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The Faculty Senate at Southeast Community and Technical College passed a resolution expressing no confidence in the KCTCS Board of Regents and KCTCS President Dr. Michael McCall. |
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The KCTCS Board of Regents ignored the pleas of AFT members, their own faculty senates and the Kentcuky House of Representatives when they voted to eliminate tenure and continuing status at the KCTCS. |
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TFSA President Connie Sanders wrote the KCTCS Board of Regents and asked that they forego any raises for KCTCS President Michael McCall or any of his top administrators until the system could fund an across the board increase for all employees. Sanders says it would be devastating to morale for the board to give the president a raise when frontline faculty and staff received nothing this year. |
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