GFT CALLS ON 40% PAY RECIPIENTS IN PUBLIC SAFETY & LAW ENFORCEMENT: CURRENT & RETIRED
GFT has taken action in the Superior Court of Guam against the Government of Guam Retirement Fund for inaccurate calculations of retirement income for public safety and law enforcement officers. PL29-105 mandated that all public safety and law enforcement officers be...
Representing GovGuam Agencies and Alutiiq Bus Drivers
GFT, AFT Local 1581, exclusively represents the Guam Department of Education Teachers and Support Staff, Guam Memorial Hospital Nurses and Staff, University of Guam Support Staff, Guam Community College Support Staff, Guam Waterworks, Guam Fire Department, Department of Public Health and Social Services Eligibility Specialists, Guam Port Authority, Department of Public Works Bus Drivers, Alutiiq Bus Drivers, Guam Police Department, Customs and Quarantine, Guam Behavioral Health and Wellness Center and the Department of Corrections, Port Authority of Guam Police I and II, Port Security Guard (Armed), Psychiatric Nurses, Psychiatric Technicians, and Department of Public Works Sanitation Division.
AS WORLD WATCHES SOCCER’S CUP, NIKE CRITIC SEES RED
For years, the former professional goalie has waged a one-man campaign to highlight Nike's labor practices, complaining that the company pays Indonesian workers low wages to stitch together the uniforms that have made the company the world's most successful sports...
ATTACKS ON JONES ACT, GULF CLEAN UP, ATTACK UNIONS AND OUR ALLIES
Right-wing radio gabbers, anti-worker Republican politicians and conservative think tanks are at it again. This time they charge that the Jones Act, a U.S. maritime law, is the culprit standing in the way of Gulf clean-up efforts. The Jones Act says that ships...
GFT AUDITS ARE CLEAN!
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)...
UNION PLUS AWARDS $150K IN SCHOLARSHIPS
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...
USA: PROBE TO FINE ‘ROOT CAUSES’ OF BP WELL DISASTER
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...
DIRTY DIAPERS ARE A BACKDOOR TAX!
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...
WHAT HEALTH CARE REFORM MEANS TO YOU FROM PRESIDENT OBAMA
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...
HOUSE/SENATE CONFERENCE OKS WALL STREET REFORM BILL, FULL VOTES NEXT WEEK
After an all-night session, U.S. House and Senate negotiators this morning agreed on a Wall Street reform bill that imposes tough new rules on the way Wall Street and Big Banks do business, including how they handle derivatives. Derivatives are the complex and risky...
MORE WIN-WIN SOLUTIONS PROPOSED FOR GMH NURSES!
President Rector has been in contact with several nurses’ unions in California and New York exploring various ways that have improved working conditions and patient care in their hospitals which we may consider adapting for Guam’s hospital. President Rector and...
WHAT HEALTH CARE REFORM MEANS TO YOU FROM PRESIDENT OBAMA
REDUCING THE DEFICIT: The Congressional Budget Office confirmed that health reform will reduce the deficit by over $100 billion in the next decade, and over $1 trillion in the following decade. Learn more
WHAT HEALTH CARE REFORM MEANS TO YOU FROM PRESIDENT OBAMA
REDUCING THE DEFICIT: The Congressional Budget Office confirmed that health reform will reduce the deficit by over $100 billion in the next decade, and over $1 trillion in the following decade. Learn more
WEEKLY RAFFLE WINNER: MARILYN CASTRO!
Fellow member Marilyn Castro of DOE, won a gift certificate to After 5 located in the 2nd floor of The Plaza in Tumon! Please pick up your prize at the GFT Office Monday to Friday between 8am to 5pm. Members who have registered in the GFT website will automatically be...