CUSTOMS OFFICERS FILE GRIEVANCE ON RETROACTIVE HAZARD PAY
GFT member officers of Guam Customs and Quarantine will be filing a grievance seeking Hazardous Duty Pay retroactive to December 15, 2016. According to 4 GCA § 6225, all sworn Officers of Customs and Quarantine Agency has been identified as Hazardous duty positions...
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.
MEDICAL FUNDRAISER FOR FELLOW MEMBER LINDA TEODOSIO EDWARD
Please support Linda Teodosio Edward in her medical fundraiser on Wednesday, June 2 at Danny’s Good Time next to Winchell’s in Mangilao from 6-10pm.
DOE TEACHERS AND STAFF GET SCREWED AGAIN!!!
Once again DOE is attempting to balance their budget on the backs of the hard working professionals that educate our island’s children by taking away yet another benefit: Voluntary Payroll deductions!!! In a recent change in their Standard Operating Policy, payroll...
RELAY FOR CANCER WITH TEAM GFT TONIGHT!
Don’t forget to stop by the GW field tonight starting at 7pm until tomorrow at 7am and visit team GFT united for a cure at the ACS relay for life event. Join the entire community in the fight for cancer and celebration of many more birthdays to come!
WEEKLY RAFFLE WINNER: BENNY ROSALIN!
Fellow member Benny Rosalin 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. Members who have registered in the GFT website will automatically be eligible to win. We will have the next...
NEW BROCHURE ON HEALTH CARE REFORM AND MEDICARE AVAILABLE
Seniors around the country who count on Medicare for their health coverage and have questions about how the new health care reform law impacts their coverage can find many of those answers in a new brochure that will be in their mailboxes soon or by downloading a copy...
WORKING CLASS ANGER: TIP TO THE RIGHT OR LEFT?
The angry working class—the good folks between the two coasts who live in what elitist pundits dub as â€Fly-Over Landâ€â€”are certainly getting a lot of TV face time, dead tree ink and blogosphere attention. Most of the conventional wisdom paints them as part of a...
GAIN’S DOG OF THE WEEK
Steve is one of many, many puppies we have up at GAIN. Please come up and take a look. Steve looks to be a Rottweiller/Shepherd mix, he's the dog in background. His sister, Caroline, is in the front. She's very bouncy and she has a lot of energy. They'll both be a...
GAIN’S CAT OF THE WEEK
Lance is a beautiful little white cat. He doesn't understand what happened. He used to have a nice family and a nice home. They fed him everyday and they pet him and took care of him. Then one day, someone dropped him off into a cage at GAIN. Although the people at...
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR DOE TEXTBOOK SELECTION/ADOPTION
In preparation of the selection/adoption process of the Science and Japanese Language textbooks, GFT will need (1) teacher from each elementary school (27 teachers) and two (2) teacher representatives from each of the respective grades (6-12) in the middle and high...
OKKODO HIGH SCHOOL GFT MEMBERS SHOW PRIDE IN THEIR SPECIAL OLYMPICS TEAM
Special Education Teacher & GFT Member, Mary Nolte, discussed the positive impact the Special Olympics event has had on her students during an interview today at Okkodo High School. Special Ed students at the school hosted an Appreciation Luncheon for various sponsors...
UPDATED WORKING FAMILY NEWS SEGMENT AIRING TONIGHT ON FOX6 @7:30PM
A new edition of our News segment on the Working Family TV show is up on our website and will be airing tonight on FOX6 @ 7:30pm. Click here to watch
NBC MUST SEE TV WORKERS’ RIGHT TO FAIR CONTRACT
The fall line-up on NBC’s “Must See TV†could end up featuring keyboard playing cats, video fishbowls and turtles doing things you’d rather not see turtles do, if the network doesn’t reach a contract agreement with its 3,000 technicians and news writers. The...