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The CBA and the MOU can be viewed on the Resources page of this website.

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RETRO PAY UPDATE

Please check your work email for dates of retro pay.  Thank you for your patience and support!

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We've received an update from Labor Relations.  The contract has gone through another step in the process.  The next step is signing and sending to Executive Board.

On another note:  We do not know the date for retro pay but we do know it will be on one check.  Membership will be informed when we have a date. 

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Click on the following link to view a copy of the 2023-2027 CBA.

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Click on the following link to view a copy of the 2023-2027 MOU.

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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.

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Report non-compliance here

Plymouth Meeting, PA, December 21, 2020—On behalf of its 36,000 members and 61 locals, AFT Pennsylvania on Monday released a webform for educators, staff, students, parents, and community members to report non-compliance with the Pennsylvania Secretary of Health’s November 24, 2020 Order Directing Public School Entities in Counties with Substantial Community Transmission to Attest to Health and Safety Protocols.

“While Pennsylvania’s largest school districts have responsibly moved to a fully remote instruction model, it is imperative that districts continuing in-person

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Sisters and Brothers AFT Pennsylvania has entered into a partnership with Misericordia University and Virtual Education Services Inc (VESi) to provide deeply discounted graduate courses online. MORE