Association of Adjunct Faculty of Macomb Community College

MPSERS Update

AFT Michigan just sent out the latest updates about what all members need to know regarding MPSERS. Attached are FAQ's and a MPSERS breakdown summary.

mpsers_faq_.pdf

mpsers_summary.pdf

Want To Become More Involved In Your Union? Join the AAFMCC Committee Team!

This semester, AAFMCC is over 600 members strong. Together we adjuncts who make up the majority of the teaching staff at MCC can make a difference—we can unite together to address the concerns that plague us and fight for the parity that we deserve.

In order to successfully do so, we need your help.

We need individuals who, like the current AAFMCC Executive Board Members, are committed to tackling the member issues of greatest concern and priority and to ensuring that our 2018 Collective Bargaining Agreement reflects real change and substantial improvement. Such change is dependent on the

AAFMCC Executive Board Is Proud To Announce Rick Fenwick Jr., Ph.D As Member-At-Large Appointee

As announced in our Winter 2017 Mid-Semester Update the AAFMCC Executive Board has appointed Rick Fenwick Jr. to fill the empty Member-At-Large position on the executive board.

Rick Fenwick Jr. worked for sixteen years as a consultant assisting unionized organizations in multiple areas including training, facilitation, team implementation, large-scale change, and mediation. Rick’s ability to implement and sustain change within an organization while forming and maintaining rapport with organizational members has made him well respected with his clients. He has also worked in mediation of

Randi Weingarten at a Massachusetts high school

Summer is upon us, and parents, children and teachers are winding down from what has been an exhausting and fully operational school year—the first since the devastating pandemic. The long-lasting impact of COVID-19 has affected our students’ and families’ well-being and ignited the politics surrounding public schools. All signs point to the coming school year unfolding with the same sound and fury, and if extremist culture warriors have their way, being even more divisive and stressful.

Randi Weingarten and NYC teacher Tamara Simpson

Attacks on public education in America by extremists and culture-war peddling politicians have reached new heights (“lows” may be more apt), but they are not new. The difference today is that the attacks are intended not just to undermine public education but to destroy it.

AAFMCC Annual Newsletter 2017

aafmcc_newsletter_july17.pdf

MPSERS Bills Pass Despite Thousands of Calls and Emails Opposed to the Plan

June 19, 2017

AFT Michigan members and our allies made thousands of phone calls and sent thousands of emails over the past few months opposed to the plan to place additional risk and uncertainty for new school employees hired after February 2018.

AFT Michigan members did great work participating in volunteer phone banks and asking their colleagues, friends and family to make calls. The Huron Valley Area Labor Federation, the Upper Peninsula Regional Labor Federation and the Metro-Detroit Central Labor Council hosted phone banks over the past few months.

The House version, HB 4647 passed 55-52

Important AAFMCC Constitution Amendment Vote UPDATE!

UPDATE: The AAFMCC Constitution Amendment passed unanimously at yesterday's General Membership Meeting. Thank you for all members who attended and exercised their right to vote.

In Solidarity -

AAFMCC Exec Brd

ATTENTION AAFMCC MEMBERS:

The Spring 2017 General Membership Meeting will be on Friday, March 31st from 10 am- noon at Center Campus in N-106.

At this meeting, in addition to the usual agenda items and discussion, we will also be voting on an important amendment to the AAFMCC Constitution. Under Article XII of the AAFMCC Constitution, amendments to the constitution may be introduced by

AAFMCC’s Expanded Tuition Reimbursement Program (TRP)

AAFMCC recently reached a “Letter of Agreement” with MCC regarding the union’s Tuition Reimbursement Program (TRP). While members will still be partially reimbursed for classes taken here at MCC they can now also be partially reimbursed for classes taken at any four year accredited institution in the United States. Details of the program can be viewed in the easy-view chart below. E-mail Jeff Kass at aafmccvp@gmail.com with any questions.

In Solidarity,
AAFMCC Executive Board