NYSUT is working to ensure a NO VOTE on the Constitutional Convention this November, and is asking for our help. They will be holding retiree phone banks every Tuesday starting August 1st at the Suffolk Regional Office in Hauppauge.

These phone banks will run from every Tuesday from 10:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and will entail retiree activists contacting fellow NYSUT retirees to educate them on the perils of the Constitutional Convention.

There will be a phone bank training on Tuesday, July 18th from 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. at the Suffolk RO to familiarize callers with the new phone banking system

The Middle Island Teachers Association asks your help on June 30 to support Teamseters Local 812.

They said it couldn't be done! Well, we did it!

LONG ISLAND CHAPTER OF NYSARA MEETING AT NYSUT

Don’t let anyone tell you that retired people are not active or interested in their future welfare because on April 28, 2017, over 50 retired union and community members met at the NYSUT Hauppauge office to attend a meeting of The Long Island Chapter of the New York State Alliance for Retired Americans (NYSARA) to hear about health care and the New York State Constitutional Convention.

Joan Perrini, Suffolk Retiree Services Consultant, welcomed everyone, and then introduced Martha Livingston PhD, Chair of the Public Health Department at SUNY Old

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Extending and expanding the Millionaires' Tax would raise $5.6 billion in revenue to support public education, health care and infrastructure improvements. This tax plan would create three new tax rates for New Yorkers making over $5 million annually – a fiscally and social responsible plan that would hardly strain millionaire household budgets.

Take action now at the NYSUT Member Action Center to ask lawmakers to support commonsense revenue proposals that ensure the state's highest earners pay their fair share!