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"Team-Mate" for Educational Assistants
Team-Mate: When the Going Get's Tough, Reinventing MTEA, MEAA Leadership Election, Consider Retiring?, Save Your Paycheck
All Units Sharpener: Recall Activities, Released Members, Safety and Discipline, Contract and Policies Interlocked, Safety Basics, Alternative Approaches
Team-Mate: What "Walkerworld" Looks Like, Extreme Use of Gov. Walker's Tools, Reclaim Wisconsin, Great Start on Recall, Take the PHA, Para Vacancies
When Contract Expires, Help Reinvent, Represent MTEA, EA Council, Consider Retiring, Paras Recalled
Team-Mate: Reinventing Our Union, Preparing Post-Contract, Date Book, EA Council Vacancies
Team-Mate: September 30 Deadline, Pay Less Taxes, MPS Input Meetings, Are All Dependents Covered, Your Mailbox Rights
Team-Mate: Showing Solidarity, Act 10, Health Insurance Q&A, Enrollment Deadline, Your Personal Days, 1st Paycheck, PAC, Attention Retirees!
Team-Mate: Sticking Together, Experienced Staff, Staff Changes, New President, PPO Advice, MTEA Communications
Team-Mate: Make-up and Record Days, Feb. 18 Make-up Day, Electing Strong Leaders, Election Results, Evaluation Rights, Honoring Retirees, Keep Visiting
MTEA staff job sharing; Personal Health Assessment (PHA); MEAA Council opening; Aetna health plan; layoff update; Leadership Convocation.
Critical Insurance Reminder; Using Negotiated Paid Personal Days Off; Absences Due to a Relative's Death; Your Mailbox Rights; Transporting Students; March on Milwaukee, Health Care Cost Tips; MPS Bowling League
Positive Start, Spring Break Change, Vacation and Travel Reimbursement, Good Health PHA, Health Care Cost Tips, MTEA Executive Director Position
MEAA President Retires, Calendar Agreements, IB and Year-Round Calendar
Contract Bargaining on March 17; Summary of Your EA Team Proposals; Summary of Your School Board Proposals; Perspective on Contract Talks; Getting Involved in Your Union; Delegate Openings for the WEAC RA
Calendar Survey Online Now!; Contract Talks - Progress Made; Tailgate Party and Brewers Game
MTEA Leader Election Results; Vice-President Runoff Election; Contract Vote Deadline - May 16; Survey on the Next EA Contract; Town Hall Meeting - Final Reminder; Flu Q & A for Employees; To Honor Our Retiring Educators
EAs Ratify Contract - Overwhelming Margin; Pay Raise Examples; Freedom of Residency Committee Update; Survey on Next EA Contract; Excessing: Questions and Answers
Let Your Legislator Know; National (ESP) Day - November 18; Saving for Retirement; Autism Now Covered by Health Plans; Know Your Contract: Absence Due to a Relative's Death; PHA Deadline; Date Book Updates
We Are Proud of You!; Proudly Wear Your ESP Button; Come to MTEA's ESP Day Celebration
Paid Inservices Negotiated for 2009-10; Participating as a Delegate to WEAC and NEA RA Meetings; Health Care Cost Tips; Technology Inservice Class Registration
Important - September 30 Deadline; Health Insurance Open Enrollment; Pay Less in Taxes and Have More Money to Spend - Legally!; Got Date Book?; First Paycheck - September 18; Your Mailbox Rights
Classroom Supervision Assignments: What Schools Should Be Doing; September 30 Deadline; Date Book Updates; Less Pain, More Gain With a 403(b); Your Negotiated Paid Personal Days Off; Transport Students in Your Car? Just Say No!
September Enrollment for Insurances; Getting Involved in Your Union; Administration Fails to Avoid EA Layoff; Union Leadership Opportunity; Mayoral Control: Initial Q & A; Date Book Delivery
Security Breach Alert for MTEA Group Disability Insurance Participants; Important: Monitor Your Credit Reports; NEA RA Delegate Voting - By February 6; NAACP Hosting Education Summit; Strict Limits on the Use of Physical Force; Retirement Planning Workshop for EAs
Getting Involved as an MEAA Leader; MEAA Leadership Election in April; Claiming a Tax Deduction for Union Dues; Reminder on January Paychecks; Save Your MPS Paycheck Statements; Join the MTEA Book Club
EA Contract Talks Continue; Layoffs Expected Due to Budget Cuts; June Paychecks Will Be Mailed; Returning from a Leave of Absence; Generation to Generation; EAs Mean All; Contract Booklet; MTEA Summer Hours; Summer Communications
Standing Up for EAs and Students; Sooner Is Better!; For Your Good Health, This Summer; Insurance Coverage If You Resign; Thanks to EA Chairpersons; Friend of Public Education Nominations; Update Your Mailing Address
Important: Chairperson Election; Clarification: Laid Off vs. Excessed; Renewing Your DPI License; Evaluation Rights; MEAA Election Results
American Education Week: November 16 -22; School Board Adopts "Kids First" Budget; Town Hall Meeting for All EAs; Joint MTEA/NAACP Efforts Help Protect Voter Rights; An Opportunity for the Change We Need; Contract Talks Resume; Thirsty Third Thursday
Opening Up Communication Within MPS; Support for Improving MPS Student Achievement; Health Insurance Open Enrollment; Health Care Cost Tips; Paychecks for 2008-09; If Your Car Is Vandalized; Who's Your Evaluator?
Layoffs/Recalls, Getting Involved, Goodbye Aquintis, 1st Paycheck, Why Get Involved
Majority Recalled, September Checklist, Paid Personal Days, Transporting Students, More Recalls, Solidarity, Mailbox Rights, 1st Paycheck
Budget Cuts and Excessing; Excessing: Questions and Answers; Transfer Possibilities for Paraprofessionals; Candidates Needed for Five Positions; Union Leadership Candidates
Seeking the Facts Behind the Draconian School Budget Cuts; MPS Budget Overview on February 9, MTEA Organizing Workgroup - February 18; Briefing Planned for RA Meeting; Summit on Milwaukee Graduation Project; Claiming a Tax Deduction for Union Dues; Strict Limits on the Use of Physical Force
Election of NEA RA Delegates
Getting Involved as an MEAA Leader; Reminder on January Paychecks; If Your School Voted for Interviews; Retirement Planning Workshop for EAs; Save Your MPS Paycheck Statements
Tom Morgan - A Leader of Educators, A Man of Extraordinary Compassion; Next Steps for Our Union; The MPS "Benefit Rate" Fixation; Save the Dates
Layoffs: What We Know Now; Leaves Can Help Minimize Layoffs; Information/Support for Laidoff Members; Responsible Representation; Talks Progressing on School Calendars; To Honor Our Retiring Educators
Team-Mate: ESP Day, Filling EA Vacancies, Layoff Update, Contract Talk Update, Transfer Limit, 2 MEAA Council Positions
Layoff update; back to school dates; first paycheck; political action rebate; leaves; "Learn Good Health, Live Good Health"
Layoff update; health insurance open enrollment; LaborFest; paychecks; Praxis.
Final Reminder to Complete the PHA Saturday, December 15; If You Are Injured at Work; Interested in Becoming a UniServ Director?; MTEA Open House; Healthy Women Sought for Research Project
A Holiday Message From Your MEAA President Tommie Lee Glenn; Congrats on Your Healthy Start!; Paychecks: Planning Ahead; Join the MTEA Book Club; Tax Note - 2007 Dues; Winter Recess
Great Schools Lobby Day; bargaining; layoffs; paychecks; Praxis; thanks to chairpersons; returning from a leave; congratulations to ESP of the year Laura Vernon.
National ESP Day; Contract Proposals Being Exchanged; Follow Through on Direct Instruction; PHA Completion; Action Alert on Legislation; Domestic Partner Benefits Hearing; You Are Invited!
School Safety Positions Available; Take the PHA
Misuse of EAs Must Stop!; Help Set the Direction for WEAC and the NEA; Participating as a Delegate to WEAC and NEA RA Meetings; Candidate Nomination Form - MEAA Delegate to 2008 & 2009 WEAC RA and/or the NEA RA; Special Education Certification Opportunity
Ask Not What Your Union Can Do for You; Contract Negotiations to Start; Please Take the PHA, ASAP; Voluntary Programs to Fit Your Needs; Education! Education!
Opting to Preserve Sick Leave; Senator Lena Taylor; If Your Car Is Vandalized; Easy Access to PHA Web Site; Special Education Certification Opportunity
Vote Now for MTEA Leaders; Negotiations News: Contract Settled; Serious Analysis and Discussion Needed on the McKinsey Report; Pay Raise Examples; MTEA Legislative Breakfast
Voting for Contract Ratification; Town Hall Meeting - May 16; Posting of Paraprofessional Positions; Clarification: Laid Off Vs. Excessed; Renewing Your DPI License; Important Chairperson Election; Evaluation Rights
Update on General EA Layoff; Perspective on Mayoral Takeover; First Paycheck - September 18; Team-Mate Via E-mail?; Retirement Investment Options Vastly Improved; Celebrate Solidarity!
Insurance Coverage for Adult Children; Legislative Contacts; A Holiday Message from MEAA President Tommie Lee Glenn; If Your Car Is Vandalized; Retirement Planning Workshop for EAs
Would Mayoral Control Improve MPS?; Less Pain, More Gain; Please Complete the PHA!
Contract Talks Resume - March 17; SFN - We Are Not Alone!; The Next MBSD; New Legislature, New Possibilities; Claiming a Tax Deduction for Union Dues; Introducing PBIS
Snow Day Make-Up Required; Filling EA Vacancies at Your School; Retirement Planning Workshop for EAs
MPS Laying Off 149 EAs; School Calendars; PHA & Voluntary Programs = Good Health and $$$ (Tax Free); Join the Fun on Labor Day; MTEA Staff Vacancy; Less Paper, But More Information, Sooner
New Salary Rates - June 12; Layoffs Expected Due to Budget Cuts; Jobs at Stake!; Retro Pay - Hourly Amount Examples; Insurance Coverage If You Resign; Talks to Start on Next Contract; For Your Good Health, This Summer; Financial Seminars; Friend of Public Education Nominations; Returning from a Leave of Absence; Bravo Chairpersons!; MTEA Vice-President Runoff Election Results; MTEA Summer Hours; June 26 Paycheck Will Be Mailed; Updating Your Contract Data; Still No Calendar Agreement
Sal Gonzalez - A Man of Quiet Strength, at Peace; Retro Pay on June 26 Paycheck; Big Deductions on Retro Pay; Help at Tax Time; Your Retro Pay Worksheet; Larger Retro Pay Examples; Estimating Your Retro Pay; Retro Pay on "Other Earnings"; Retro on EA Pay Only; Fewer Days of Retro Pay; Salary Schedules - Hourly Rates; More Days of Retro Pay for...; MTEA Building Will Be Closed
Snow Day Letter from Andrekopoulos
We Hear You!; Frustrated With...; Legislative Breakfast - April 26; MTEA Legislative Priorities; Tailgate Party and Brewers Game; Superintendent's Position on Snow Day Make-Up
Special Edition - MEAA Leaders Election; Ballots at Your School; Union Leadership Candidates; MEAA Leadership Duties and Responsibilities
MPS Fails to Follow Board's Direction - Layoff Notices Sent to 65 General EAs; Leaves Will Be Granted; Political Action Rebate Reminder; Back-to-School; First Paycheck - September 19
Welcome Back!; Testimony of EA Members Moves MPS School Board Committee; Using Your Negotiated Paid Personal Days Off; Important Updates on MTEA Staff; Date Book Delivery; Your Mailbox Rights; Do Not Transport Students in Your Car
A Holiday Message from Your MEAA President Tommie Lee Glenn; Paychecks: Planning Ahead; Contract Books Delivered Today!; Winter Conference - Register Now; Wanted: A Few Curious Members; Are You Interested in Becoming an Urban UniServ Director?; Strict Limits on the Use of Physical Force; Thirsty Third Thursday
Please Complete the PHA! The Deadline is Monday, December 15; Supporting Public Schools- Two Key Messages; ESP Town Hall Meeting - A Great Solidarity Success; What is the Status of the Contract?
Let's Be Fair! How About $1,000,000 to Promote Milwaukee Public Schools; PHA Participation - Phenomenal!; Update on the Security Breach; Wanted: A Few Curious Members; Calendar Survey Starts February 20; Healthy Women Sought for Research Project
Union Leadership Candidates; February 29 Deadline - Three Reminders; If You Are Injured at Work
Election of NEA RA Delegates; Candidate Statements; Ballot Mailed to Your Home?; Electing Delegates and Alternates
Team-Mate: April 4 Activities, April 5, School Board, Salary Rates, Election Reminder, mtea.org, Health Insurance
Team-Mate: Health Plan Changes on April 1
Team-Mate: Contract Overview, MPS Portal, Home Page, Home E-Mail, Patience Appreciated
Team-Mate: School Board, Contract Talks, Union Dues Tax Deductions, Retiring in June, Retiring at 65, Winter Conference
Team-Mate: Representing Contract Talks, What You Can Do, Reminder Old Contract, Spending Changes for Health Accounts, Advice If Assulted
Contract Talks, January Paychecks, Save Your Paycheck Statements, School Interviews, EA Retirement Workshop, Safety Offenses