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6-E Coordinating Council

MEA/NEA Local 1

38550 Garfield Ste. B

Clinton Township MI 48038-3406

Last modified:  August 17, 2011

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                 

          

President’s Update 3-20-2012

PROTECT OUR JOBS CAMPAIGN

 

 

The MEA has joined with over 25 unions to launch the Protect Our Jobs campaign, with the goal of amending Michigan's constitution to protect collective bargaining rights and strengthen the middle class.

This campaign represents the most important effort that MEA has been involved in since the passing of the Public Employment Relations Act (PERA) that gave us collective bargaining rights in the 1960s. Our work now is to collect 332,000 valid signatures to prevent the erosion of those rights.

 

All members of MEA Local 1 and the 6-E Coordinating Council are working to gather signatures to put this amendment on the ballot in November, 2012. The relentless attacks that began over a year ago in the legislature against the rights of Michigan’s middle class continue with over 80 more anti-labor bills ready to be moved into law.  The passage of this amendment will stop these attacks from becoming law.

 

For more information, please go to www.ProtectOurJobs.com or www.mea.org.

Working together, we will save the American Dream of public schools that educate our kids to be successful in life; good jobs for workers that pay a living wage and include medical and retirement benefits; and a safe and secure retirement for seniors where they don’t have to worry about losing Medicare or Social Security.

 

Sincerely,

 

John Duffy

John Duffy, MEA-NEA Local 1, President

& Chairperson, 6-E Coordinating Council

jduffy@mea.org

work (586) 228-0100

cell (586) 873-9743

From the desk of the President