Fighting Forward for Patients, Celebrating Our "Everyday Hero"
Delegates from across the nation last month at our national union's biennial convention took action on several key resolutions designed to help improve the quality of patient care in America. The event also featured a highlight with special meaning for the nearly 100 members attending from Connecticut; the presentation of AFT's "Everyday Heroes" award to one of our very own.
Our Union Members are "Everyday Heroes"
AFT is made up of amazing teachers, paraprofessionals and school-related personnel, higher education faculty and staff, nurses and healthcare professionals, state employees, early childhood educators and retirees. Our national union every two years recognizes some of these "Everyday Heroes" and three members of local unions in AFT Connecticut have been selected as semifinalists for their 2016 awards.
Click here to cast your vote for Connecticut's nominees.
Washington -- The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) announced today it has awarded AFT Innovation Fund grants for teachers in Connecticut and New York to offer solutions to problems with their state's rollout of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). The New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) and AFT Connecticut were awarded the grants in a competition that was announced in July at the AFT convention.
Hartford - Connecticut public service professionals today announced efforts to expand the Health Enhancement Program (HEP) to the state's municipalities and school districts through public education and engagement of local elected officials. A $25,000.00 "Solution-Driven Unionism" grant awarded in October by AFT to their Connecticut affiliate in recognition of the innovative employee wellness plan will help fund the campaign. The goal is to empower communities across Connecticut to model the negotiations between the State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition (SEBAC) and Governor Dannel P. Malloy that produced the HEP.