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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.
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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.
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President Bush on Nov. 13 vetoed the spending bill passed by Congress last week for education, labor and health programs for fiscal year 2008 and asked that Congress support his fiscal year spending request. |
 AFT Responds to the NCLB Commission Recommendations
The AFT has several concerns with recommendations released Feb. 13 by the Aspen Institute's Commission on No Child Left Behind (NCLB). Read AFT president Edward J. McElroy's statement on the report, which also includes a link to the AFT's own recommendations for NCLB.
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Overview of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
The federal Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA), 28 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq., applies to most employers with fifty or more employees. The FMLA requires covered employers to grant up to twelve weeks of family and medical leave each year to eligible employees. |
The AFT-Maine office is now located at:
16 Winthrop Street
P.O. Box 1007
Augusta, Maine 04332-1007
Phone: 207 / 621-2854
aft.maine@gmail.com
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The Maine State Board of Education Select Panel on Revisioning Education in Maine released their report on September 28, 2006. The 90 page report calls for sweeping changes in public education, including a longer school year, higher salaries and merit pay for teachers, larger school districts and an end to construction of schools too small to be cost effective.
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