April 5, 2021 ~ Bow, NH

We hope you have all had a chance to enjoy the sunshine this weekend.  It truly does seem Spring may be arriving, what with crocuses flowering, willows beginning to get color and even forsythia beginning to bud out.  Springtime-when hope bursts forth!

In the NH Legislature, the upcoming week will prove to be busy, with three full days of session planned at the Bedford Sportsplex.  These will be the first House sessions since late February and there are over 300 bills on the docket, plus the State budget.  Needless to say, these will be long and exhausting days.  You can review the bills to be considered by the House this week by clicking here: NH House Calendar April 2, 2021

• AFT Climate Task Force Local Leader List
• AFT Green New Deal resolution
• Greening schools local resolution
• Climate change impacts on union workers
• School climate
• K-12 climate curriculum

Below you will find the link to the nefotiation summary for March 31,2021

Further information for ratiication and contract agreement will be coming soon

http://unit47.ct.aft.org/sites/default/files/article_pdf_files/2021-04/member_summary_for_march_31.pdf

Open Positions:  Governing Board  

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE-April 1, 2021

Governor’s School Announcement Shortsighted, Light on Facts 

CONCORD, N.H.— Today in the Governor’s press conference he announced that all schools would be open five days week starting April 19^th. AFT-NH President Doug Ley issued the following statement:

The medical techs, technologists, and therapists at St. Charles Medical Center in Bend, Oregon have ratified their first union contract!

Click here for this week's Update

1) Reopening update

2) NTU Scholarship and Hall of Fame

3) Art grants

And more!

"Our city is about to receive an unprecedented amount of money to meet an unprecedented need, and we must act collectively and intelligently to ensure we use this stimulus money in a way that will have the greatest lasting impact on our children’s future." Read Sharahn's Remarks: