MTA Today: Coalitions Help Build Union Power
MTA Today: Coalitions Help Build Union Power
Local associations are joining forces to build their power statewide. Recently, coalition representatives from the Southeastern and Western regions of the state met at the MTA Union Skills Winter Conference and discussed their successes in pushing back charter schools, protecting access to health care, and showing up for each other’s contract actions. Meanwhile, members and special guests celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Ethnic Minority Affairs Committee with a video tribute to EMAC and a conference focused on education, love and the fight for racial justice. And the campaign to pass the Cherish Act, a bill reversing decades of cuts to public higher education, has hit full throttle now that the Student Opportunity Act, a new law providing $2 billion to preK-12 schools, has been signed. Also in this issue you will find a preview of the MTA ESP Conference, coverage of the MTA Higher Education Conference, and much more.
Featured stories include:
- Members unite to demand fairness for ESPs
- EMAC celebrates 40 years of activism
- Student Opportunity Act will bring new funding
- Heat is on for passage of the Cherish Act
- Locals join forces to build union power
- Conference offers chance for ESPs to learn and network
- Mark your calendars for upcoming ESP events
- Gorrie and Naughton win re-election to teachers’ retirement board
- Members protest Weymouth compressor station
- Higher ed members confer and strategize
- Preconvention meetings to be held in April
- A victory for labor: Supreme Court declines to take up 'Branch' case
- Spring brunches to be held for MTA Retired members
- Union skills event draws hundreds to Springfield
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