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Saint Paul Federation of Teachers, phone: 651.222.7303 fax: 651-222-8948
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Peer Assistance and Review - PAR For recent research on PAR go to "Get Informed."
Federal Guidelines for NCLB School Restructuring
ER&D 2009-2010 Schedule Next year's ER&D course schedule is live at pdexpress and also available on this site at "Get Some Training." Educational Research and Dissemination Summer Pilot
July 12-16
Fergus Falls, MN
Members interested in ER&D training in northern Minnesota in the strands listed below have an opportunity for National Training at a state location. Although all of these strands will be available at our local, this may a time and place which works for you.
Read more at "Get Some Training."
For more details contact John Mueller.
No Holds Barred
The Intensification of Employer Opposition to Organizing
Click here to read the EPI Briefing Paper
Employee Free Choice Act 1. Giving working people the feedom to form unions and bargain collectively is key to turning around the economy and rebuilding America's middle class. Union members are 52 percent more likely to have job-provided health care, nearly three times more likely to have guaranteed pensions and earn 28 percent more than nonunion workers. No matter what else we do to turn around America's economy and rebuild the middle class, we will not have broadly shared prosperity until we restore workers' free choice to bargain with their companies for a better life - without corporate intimidation. The Employee Free Choice Act will do that.
2. America's workers want to form unions. Research shows nearly 60 million would form a union tomorrow if given the chance.
3. Too few workers are able to form unions and bargain because companies routinely block their efforts - and our current legal system is too broken and dominated by corporations to help them. A worker in an organizing campaign has a one in five chance of being fired for union activety.
4. CEOs wouldn't work a day without contracts to protect their outrageous pay and perks. But they routinely deny workers the same opportunity. Although U.S. and international laws are supposed to protect workers' freedom to belong to unions and bargain, employees are on an uneven playing field from the first moment they begin exploring whether they want to form a union, and the will of the majority often is crushed by brutal management tactics.
5. The Employee Free Choice Act would allow workers, not corporations, to choose whether and how they want to form a union.
It would give workers a fair chance to form unions to improve their lives.
6. The Employee Free Choice Act has widespread support, including bipartisan backing in Congress and President Obama's pledge to sign it into law. Nearly three-quarters of the public, nearly 73 percent, support the Employee Free Choice Act. Hundreds of respected religious, academic and business people and organizations have signed on in support. 7. Corporate front groups have mounted a massive campaign to block the Employee Free Choice Act. A former Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott has said, "We like driving the car and we're not going to give the steering wheel to anybody but us." The core of their campaign is lies and distortions about the Employee Free Choice Act - expecially the lie that it takes away "secret ballot" elections. In fact, the act would let workers choose whether to decide on a union through majority sign-up or an election. 8. Majority sign-up is a long-established way to form a union, dating back to the passage of the National Labor Relations Act. It is used today by major employers, such as AT&T and Harley-Davidson, as an important part of their successful high-road business plans. What is the Employee Free Choice Act? Why Workers Need the Freedom to Form Unions and Bargain. The system for forming a union is broken. Important links for members Code of Ethics for Administrators Why are teacher unions needed? The growing number of mandates and non-educators enforcing them make teachers unions more critical than ever, according to professor Diane Ravitch. Unions need to ensure that teachers influence on curriculum and practices is not further eroded. http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/chat/chat205.shtml The Saint Paul Federation of Teachers also made history in 1946 with the first teachers' strike in the nation. The issues were so familiar that they sound like today's headlines: job loses, 6 percent pay cuts, forced furloughs. Local 28 won the strike and paved the way for collective bargaining for teachers all over the country... Albert Shanker; April 2003 "The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all Americans." President John F. Kennedy
President Barrack Obama
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