by Toneshia Harris | Jun 29, 2010 | Local News
Members should be proud to know that GFT’s financial audits for fiscal years 2008 and 2009 came out clean! In an extra effort to ensure GFT’s finances are up to par, President Rector requested that our national affiliate, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT)... by Toneshia Harris | Jun 29, 2010 | Local News
Some 121 union members and union family members have been awarded $150,000 in scholarships, ranging from $500 to $4,000, by the 2010 Union Plus Scholarship Program. Says Union Plus President Leslie Tolf: “During these challenging economic times, with college tuition... by Toneshia Harris | Jun 29, 2010 | Local News
The Chemical Safety Board (CSB), the organisation that investigated BP’s Texas City disaster and pinned much of the blame on the company’s London-based global board, is to investigate the “root causes†of the latest industrial catastrophe blighting BP’s... by Toneshia Harris | Jun 28, 2010 | Local News
Approximately 1/3 of all of the waste in our landfill comes from disposable diapers! This means not only are parents shipping millions of dollars per year out of our economy into someone else’s (where disposable diapers are made) but all of our people are... by Toneshia Harris | Jun 28, 2010 | Local News
CUTTING WASTE, FRAUD, AND ABUSE: Health reform implements unprecedented measures to fight waste, fraud, and abuse and improve the quality and outcomes of care for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. The law ends unwarranted subsidies to private insurance companies...