VOTE for school budgets Tuesday!
Be sure to tell your friends, family and colleagues to support local school budget proposals and vote for pro-education candidates in school board elections Tuesday. Your vote may be more important than ever. Seventeen districts are seeking a supermajority to exceed their tax levy cap this year.
Support School Staff!
NYSUT's new initiative kicks off with a web page, videos, social media and more to boost issues important to School-Related Professionals.
The campaign elevates the voices of SRPs fighting to convince lawmakers in Albany to provide safe workplaces, the tools they need to support the students, and the respect and dignity they deserve.
Specifically, it advocates legislation to curb workplace violence, allow cameras for enforcement of school bus-stop safety, require an attendant on every bus, and protect due process rights for SRPs.
Nurses lobby for safe staffing and much more
More nurses means better health care - it's that simple. Union nurses invaded the Capitol this week to demand action on important bills, including a safe-staffing measure, another to end mandatory overtime for home care nurses, and a third to require a school nurse in every building for the Big 5 city districts. Take action now at the NYSUT Member Action Center to tell lawmakers to support a safe staffing bill to establish safe nurse-to-patient rations.
More news
- Presidential candidates seek our support: Amy Klobuchar came to Yonkers; not long after Tim Ryan spoke at the NYSUT RA. It's all part of the national AFT's endorsement process.
- NYSUT and the AFT have made tackling the student-debt crisis a major priority and a union issue.
- NYSUT's first Women in Leadership summit, held last weekend in Rochester, was empowering and informative.
- Make your union stronger. Find out more and apply for the 2019 Member Organizing Institute.
- How long is too long? New video illustrates absurd length of untimed standardized tests.
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