MEMBERS OF GUAM CUSTOMS AND QUARANTINE VOICE CONCERNS
Members at Guam Customs and Quarantine met with GFT Field Representatives for guidance on addressing issues and concerns that several officers are experiencing, specifically on the P.O.S.T. standards and Hazard pay. Members provided documents and information that GFT...
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.
NURSE-PATIENT RATIO LAWS SAVE LIVES, NEW STUDY SHOWS
California’s nurse-to-patient staffing law reduces patient deaths, allows nurses to spend more time with each patient and helps keep experienced nurses on the job, a new study by University of Pennsylvania researchers documents. The study shows that if other states...
GAIN’S DOG OF THE WEEK
Roger (Rabbit) is a really fun dog. He's great with kids and he's very active. He's a little less than a year old so he's still a great age to take to Obedience training. Roger will make a fabulous new addition to any family. And he's sure to bring lots of love and...
GAIN’S CAT OF THE WEEK
Bobette is a fun loving cat. You can see by her photo that she likes to play. She's an adult cat but she still has the kitten gene for fun. She also likes to be pet and snuggled. She's looking for a long-term relationship with a family that needs a new kitty. Come up...
PLANT TREES WITH GFT FOR ARBOR DAY ON FRIDAY, APRIL 30!
In celebration of Arbor Day, GFT will be planting trees on Friday, April 30th at the GFT Compound. We will also be showing Michael Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Storyâ€. Feel free to help out and bring the whole family down. There will be a potluck as well. For...
JOIN THE GFT TECH TEAM!
Contact the GFT office #735-4390 or reply to this email if you would like to join GFT’s Tech Team for DOE. A few people have joined the team already but the more people with expertise in this area the better. For those who have signed up, you will be contacted when...
NO RESPONSE FROM AG YET?
President Matt Rector sent the Attorney General a follow up letter yesterday regarding contract negotiations for Guam’s Fire Fighters. Click here to read follow up letter. The substitute contract the Fire Chief had the Assistant AG Keeler draft brings to question...
PUBLIC SECTOR, PUBLIC GOOD
In 2008, my local union was approached by librarians in Saugus, Mass. They wanted to form a union. As the only city workers without a union, they were easy targets during budget cuts and hadn’t had a raise in four years. It worked out. But I sure got a taste of the...
BILL IN CONGRESS WOULD SAVE OR CREATE 675,000+ LOCAL JOBS
If the Local Jobs for America Act (H.R. 4812) becomes law, it will create or save more than 675,000 local community jobs and more than 250,000 education jobs, according to the latest estimates from the House Education and Labor Committee. In a letter from the...
NEW ER&D SUMMER SCHEDULE AVAILABLE!
“The classes that we offer in ER&D are outstanding classes. They’re really different then what are usually taught to teachersâ€, Dana Figirliyong, Director of ER&D Program. In 1981, the AFT noticed new teachers were leaving the profession within their first five...
PLANT TREES WITH GFT FOR ARBOR DAY ON FRIDAY, APRIL 30!
In celebration of Arbor Day, GFT will be planting trees on Friday, April 30th at the GFT Compound. We will also be showing Michael Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Storyâ€. Feel free to help out and bring the whole family down. There will be a potluck as well. For...
BIDEN: GROWING CONSTRUCTION JOBS GROWS THE MIDDLE CLASS
Pointing to an unemployment rate—nearly 25 percent—for construction workers that is “unacceptably high,†Vice President Joe Biden yesterday told some 3,000 delegates to the AFL-CIO’s Building and Construction Trades Department (BCTD) legislative conference:...
COURT UPHOLDS OSHA’S POWER TO PROTECT WORKERS
In a major win for workers’ safety on the job, a federal appeals court upheld the power of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to determine how to craft and enforce workplace safety rules. The saga began when Eric Ho, a contractor in Houston,...