|
Home Calendar About Us Recent News Our Issues Member Benefits Political Action Publications and Reports Press Center Election 2008 AFT.org AFT Connecticut Contact Us |
Home
|
This years picnic held in conjunction with the RN local was a great success. The weather was fine and attendance was in the hundreds. Members and families enjoyed games, food and music while E-board members worked the check in booth, games and raffles--this is the time of year where we look back and review what has been going on. |
|
Delegates to the 2008 AFT convention elected a new slate of national officers on July 14 in Chicago, voting to install Randi Weingarten as president, Antonia Cortese as secretary-treasurer and Lorretta Johnson as executive vice president.
|
|
Our "Local-in-Motion" |
|
Over a period of just seven weeks, from Jan. 14-March 3, a total of 26,419 people took the online 2008 Health Care for America Survey sponsored by the AFL-CIO and Working America. Most are insured and employed. Most are college graduates. More than half are union members.
|
|
More than 20,000 paraprofessionals and school-related personnel represented by the Oregon School Employees Association have voted to affiliate with the AFT, marking the largest affiliation of an independent union in AFT history.
|
|
Every day, nearly 9,000 healthcare workers suffer a disabling injury on the job, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Most of those are back injuries. In fact, healthcare workers have a higher rate of back injuries than truck drivers and construction workers.
|
Photographs and illustrations, as well as text, cannot be used without permission from the AFT.