AFT Healthcare–Maryland union elections are upon us and a nominations notice has been mailed.

A nominations letter and form have been mailed to the last known address for AFT Healthcare Maryland members, so please do not discard this mail.

SCCFT Local 1950

October 24, 2016 Meeting Minutes Draft

Attendees: Sasha Malinsky, Caroline Conley, Steve Bogart, John Tankersley, Tim Wright, Brian Martin, Nancy Eichner, Brad Fader, Betty Kost, Leslie Potter-Henderson, DuValle Daniel. Guest: Shelby Sleight.

Agenda: Amend to move Leadership Training to first of meeting. Approved as amended.

Leadership Training Report Back – Tim Wright, Shelby Sleight and DuValle Daniels (See Handout attached – Building our Board 2016-2017).

  SCCFT Local 1950

October 10, 2016 Meeting Minutes

Attendees: Ellen Cadwell, Sasha Malinsky, Caroline Conley, Steve Bogart, John Tankersley, Tim Wright, Brian Martin, Nancy Eichner, Betty Kost, Brad Fader, DuValle Daniel.

Agenda: Amend to add approval for funding for lunch for the IBB team – cost to be split with the administration. Approved as amended.

Minutes of previous meetings: Board Minutes September 26, 2016 – Approved no revisions

Adjunct and Non-Tenured Full Time Professors at Arcadia University share in their own words why they support a union at their school

Contingent faculty at Arcadia University are organizing a union. Learn more about their organizing efforts, and find out how to request an authorization card today! 

School Board Election

If you have been to a school board meeting recently, you know that the board meetings have focused more on conflict than on community input and productive discourse about public education. The board often spends more time approving the agenda and minutes than on discussion and questions regarding action items that affect our students and our members. We need to have a board that will work together for our students and our members.

Colleagues,

November 3, 2016 -- On September 26, The Association of Career Employees (ACE) held a seminar on the administration’s proposal for switching to self-insurance for state employee group health insurance. Below are some summaries written by attendees. 

**New**  Video of Sept. 26 Seminar

Summary by ACE

Summary by Jim Newton

Summary by Jill Hynum

Members of Joint Committee on Finance

On Saturday, October 29, 2016, AFT-Maryland invited members from its affiliated unions to take part in an anti-bullying workshop held at the Federation’s offices. Cliff Denby and Sandra Davis of the...