At the State
House
During the spring semester state legislative committees held many hearings
on bills sponsored by the MTA and endorsed by the MSCA. Most bills concerned
retirement issues.
BOOK REVIEW:
Not Automatic: Women and the Left in the Forging of the United Auto Workers
By Sol and Genora Johnson Dollinger
New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000
Reviewed by Nan Wiegersma
A Note from
the Editor on . . . Now and the Future
By Patricia Johnston
In The Association
MSCA Salary Database Committee Reactivated: Consolidated Grievances
Filed; MSCA Treasury Moves from Westfield to Bridgewater; Contract Implementation
Issue; Bargaining on Distance Education and Intellectual Property Rights;
New DGCE Contract Available: Day Contract in Progress.
MTA Sues
State Over Failure to Fund Retirements
The MTA has filed a complaint to force the BHE to fully fund
retirement plans for its members who are enrolled in the Optional Retirement
Program (ORP).
First Salary
Increases Now in Paychecks
State Retirement
Board Makes Policy Change in Treatment of Part-time Creditable Service
State House
Ceremony Caps Three Years of Bargaining
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