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We hope that this message finds you and your family well! This has been a most unsual time for all of us! 

 

The GFT is well aware of the daily challenges that each of you have been facing. Please know that we are here to support you in whatever way we can. 


We thank you for your continuous efforts during this hard time, everyone stepping up to go above and beyond our call of duty. We thank you for supporting one another and helping each other in whatever way you can! 

 

Please know that we have been working as an executive board alongside administration to stay on top of any and all decisions that have been coming down from the state or national government. We thank you for your patience, as we know that this transition to online teaching and learning has not been easy and we know that countless questions have popped up. As these questions arise, know that we are working to get answers and we will relay those answers to you once they become available. 

 

 On a somber note, we offer our sincerest condolences to the families of those who have succumbed to the virus. We pray for a speedy recovery to those who have fallen ill.   

 

Your union is here for you and we will assist you in any way we can. We’re in this together. You are not alone.

 

Stay safe, healthy and cherish your loved ones.

 

In Unity,

 

Megan Cohn

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Randi Weingarten at a Massachusetts high school

Summer is upon us, and parents, children and teachers are winding down from what has been an exhausting and fully operational school year—the first since the devastating pandemic. The long-lasting impact of COVID-19 has affected our students’ and families’ well-being and ignited the politics surrounding public schools. All signs point to the coming school year unfolding with the same sound and fury, and if extremist culture warriors have their way, being even more divisive and stressful.

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What unions do

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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.

Randi Weingarten and NYC teacher Tamara Simpson

Attacks on public education in America by extremists and culture-war peddling politicians have reached new heights (“lows” may be more apt), but they are not new. The difference today is that the attacks are intended not just to undermine public education but to destroy it.

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Save the dates April 20-21 for the AFTNJ Convention at the Seaview in Galloway Township.
See http://aftnj.org/calendar/ ( for more Union and Education events.


Other Dates:

June 5th - NJ Primary Election (includes Presidential & US Senate)
July 27-30 - AFT Convention, Detroit, MI
November 6th - General Election Day

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AFT President Randi Weingarten took some time on January 27th to talk with members of AFT New Jersey and the Health Professionals and Allied Employees about the importance of getting actively involved in political education and advocacy.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is pushing an agenda filled with attacks on K-12 education through undermining tenure and promoting vouchers, as well as a hastily conceived plan to merge higher education institutions.

The economy has created an opportunity for the “scapegoaters and the demonizers,” said Weingarten. “Instead of taking the responsibility of governing in tough times seriously, they are pointing fingers” and attempting “to turn the very people who are trying to make a difference in the lives of others into villains.” It’s unfair, and our members see it, said Weingarten. “They want to know what we are going to do about this. How are we going to make it better?”

AFT affiliates in New Jersey are working on legislation to protect members. “We have to work together, not just with one another, but with state lawmakers to get the best possible legislation,” Weingarten urged. “We have to come together with a quality agenda to engage members.

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