NMFT Local-1794

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  • NMFT BARGAINING UPDATE: Setting the Record Straight

    NMFT BARGAINING UPDATE: Setting the Record Straight

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    NMFT BARGAINING UPDATE■ District Claim: “NMUSD has provided 20.6% in raises over 4 years.”➡True, but misleading. The state funded COLA was 20.92% during that time period. Other districts gave the full COLA salary increases and have similar health benefits. NMUSD’s 2% salary increase offer this year is barely above inflation over 5 years! ■ District…

  • NMFT Collective Bargaining Agreement 2024-27

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  • 21-22 MOU’s

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  • The pandemic — reopening, regrouping, testing, and protecting

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    K-12 locals put safety first, find communities on their side The week after Thanksgiving, Mariah Fisher, president of the Novato Federation of Teachers and a middle school drama teacher, said she was ready to go back to in-person teaching, starting that week. She had marked off six feet of space between all the desks and she was preparing…

  • Who We Are

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    Chartered in 1998, the Newport-Mesa Federation of Teachers Retired Chapter was formed to promote the interests and welfare of retired faculty of the Newport-Mesa Unified School District (N-MUSD) as well as to support the active members of the Newport-Mesa Federation of Teachers (N-MFT) Local 1794.  N-MFT Retired provides a communications link to keep retirees informed and…

  • Newport-Mesa Federation of Teachers Local 1794

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    March 13, 2021, marked a year of our experience of the Pandemic. Throughout this time you have endured many obstacles and experiences to get to this point of the year. You have gone through the reopening of schools process, experienced the summer covid surge, experienced the school board’s decisions of giving secondary students incompletes and…

  • The AFT calls for freedom to teach

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    AFT President Randi Weingarten today delivered a major address on the crisis hollowing out the teaching profession—massive disinvestment in public education and deprofessionalization. In her speech at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., she called for reinvestment and freedom to teach. It was followed by two panels featuring education leaders who laid out pragmatic…

  • President’s Message from Last Night’s School Board Meeting

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    This week is parent conference week for our elementary schools. It’s an opportunity for teachers to discuss student achievement, academic supports, and hold strategic and focused conversations about each child. Throughout this year, teachers had to dispel misinformation, stop rumors, and remind parents we are in fact conducting In-Person Instruction, unlike many Districts in the…

  • Finally—it’s President-elect Biden

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    Patience—counseled by former Vice President Joe Biden all election week as Americans waited for votes to be counted—finally paid off Nov. 7, four days after Election Day, when he won in Pennsylvania and gained enough Electoral College votes to acquire a new title: president-elect. The win in Pennsylvania, and just a few hours later in…

  • ‘Back to school’ like never before

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    In her September New York Times column, AFT President Randi Weingarten says that going back to school has never looked like it does now. Weingarten explains that because of President Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus, which has been chaotic, contradictory and inept, and the lack of federal guidance and funding, we’re seeing a patchwork of school…