TVI Employees Fedration 

COPE NEWS 

President Donna Swanson-Hurtado negotiated successfully for a UNM Staff contract

read your contract

 See newsletter explaining health insurance plan and increases (.pdf file)

(Click here for a membership application) Contract in Negotiation contact your Department Rep with your concerns

 See Wayne Shrubsall's reflctions on the necessity of union membership

Read the New Mexico Tobacco Report prepared by Common Cause

Read the Journal's article about TVI ITs

 TAKE ACTION!
ASK a colleague to join.
A strong membership helps your negotiators forge good contracts.

 Former AFT President Sandra Feldman Remembered

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News from AFT

Campus Equity Week Spotlights Adjunct Faculty and employment practices which often exploit them

AFT Reports:
Research on Critical Issues

 Bargaining States have higher student test scores

Shanker Institute Looks at Professional Development

Part-Time Faculty Standards of Compensation (1.2M .pdf)

AFT New Mexico launches  new website at nm.aft.org
Professionally done with lots of valuable information.
Visit the site, and send feedback to tbfiser@aol.com.

 See President Christine Trujillo's op-ed piece on Fair Share

 Take Action!
Contribute your expertise to the Public Education Department and help develop the New Mexico Standards Based Assessment.
Click here for your open invitation

Inside AFT Weekly News

 State VP Tim Crone recaps important Legislative Accom-plishments

NMFEE Retirees Group:
839-5072  

Collective Bargaining Act Text

Education Bill Watch List

Read the Ed Reform Task Force Report (in pdf) 

  An easy way to make your voice heard about important policy issues. Sign up here to get updates and action alerts during 2003 legislative session. 

NM Higher Ed VP Expresses Concern for Part-Timers 

Learn more about Labor Day

Wally Boch's Monday Memo on Labor Day

To copy or not to copy? New resource available Copyright Law on Campus

 Distance Eduation: Guidelines for Good Practice (.pdf file)
- and see article in September On Campus about blended learning

The Tribune comments on President Glennon's raise

Scholarship News

Educators' Agenda for New Mexico's 2003 Legislature  
incl higher ed
 provision

NM House Education Funding voting report from NMFEE

The Political Economy of Educating Children

Feldman's
comments on Supreme Court voucher decision

POLL: Americans Willing to pay for Quality Teaching Corps

Read about the issues that concern New Mexican working families

  Visit the Union Shop

Workers' Buying Power Falls

 Ask a Working Woman Survey Report

Act for Corporate Reform

  read the New York Times article on organizing Whole Foods Markets

Lighting Labor's Fire, an article from The Nation

Celebrate U.S. Working Heroes

Labor Heroes

  NM AFL-CIO urges members to shop Union grocers and avoid Lowe's

  IT Workers Ready To Organize?

Professionals Show Interest in Workplace Representation

New Mexico Education Retirement Board

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