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On her very first day of student teaching at Linden Avenue Middle School in Red Hook, N.Y., Martha Strever pushed, pulled and pounded on the school’s door, which was locked. No one came. Where was everybody? It was, after all, the first day of school.

It turned out everybody was exactly where they were supposed to be: inside, having entered through the school’s front entrance. Strever had been knocking on a side door. Flustered but undeterred, she not only found her way inside, she also found her life’s calling.

Strever’s sentences are punctuated with laughs when she recounts the story to

Scarlett Ahmed has started counting the number of people sleeping outside the Queens Career Center in New York City when she arrives at work in the morning.

“It was already bad,” she said. “But this? This will just add to it.”

Ahmed, a career center supervisor and an executive board member of New York’s Public Employees Federation, is referring to the devastating disruption in benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. The break in benefits—resulting from the longest federal government shutdown on record—has a seismic impact, reaching even programs and departments

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Just a reminder:

The TRANSFER WINDOW is now open AUGUST 15 - MARCH 15.

ARTICLE 11
VACANCIES
Section One. Posting and Eligibility.
(a) When management decides to fill a newly created position or other
vacancy, and such vacancy has not been filled by administrative transfer,
the opening shall be posted on the school district’s website for seven (7)
days.
In order to be eligible to apply for a posted vacancy, an employee must
meet the following criteria:
(1) The employee has at least three (3) full years (as defined in Article
6, Section 1 of this Agreement) of full-time employment in the
system or the

In AFT President Randi Weingarten’s latest New York Times  column, she describes what it is exactly that unions do. Though unions are the most popular they have been in decades, anti-union sentiment still thrives in red states and across the nation. “Several years ago, The Atlantic ran a story whose headline made even me, a labor leader, scratch my head: ‘Union Membership: Very Sexy,’” Weingarten writes in the column. “The gist was that higher wages, health benefits and job security—all associated with union membership—boost one’s chances of getting married. Belonging to a union doesn’t actually guarantee happily ever after, but it does help working people have a better life in the here and now.” Click through to read the full column.

This article is about women in the labor movement, which resonates with us as SVFT, AFT-CT, AFT National, and AFL-CIO members.

http://www.thenation.com/article/177880/how-rise-women-labor-could-save-movement

A  video clip highlighting the great work being accomplished by the young ladies at the Cheney Tech Welding Department. Another example of how Vo-Tech instructors help their students become career ready in four years.

NBC 30 VIDEO CLIP

http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/video/#!/news/sports/Game-of-the-Week-Cheney-Tech-Female-Metal-Workers/228319941