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Juneau Education Support Staff begins collective bargaining process

...more than 300 of its 780 staff members. JESS is a local affiliate of the Alaska Public Employee Association and American Federation of Teachers.The current three-year agreement between JSD and JESS expires on June 30, 2012.

http://juneauempire.com/local/2012-01-12/juneau-education-support-staff-begins-c
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JSD and JESS come to preliminary agreement

...as maintenance and custodial personnel. JESS is a local affiliate of the Alaska Public Employee Association and American Federation of Teachers.The JESS membership is scheduled to vote on the new contract on April 14. The Juneau School District...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2012-03-25/jsd-and-jess-come-preliminary-agreement
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JSD nurse in running for national award

Auke Bay Elementary School's nurse is one of three school nurses across the nation nominated for the American Federation of Teachers Everyday Hero award.LuAnn Powers was one of the first to be certified in the Juneau School District...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2012-04-24/jsd-nurse-running-national-award
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JSD holds closed session on collective bargaining

...bargaining negotiations in January. The association is a local affiliate of the Alaska Public Employee Association and American Federation of Teachers (ak.aft.org/JESS).The organizations reached a tentative agreement in March (goo.gl/uH0HS...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2012-06-06/jsd-holds-closed-session-collective-bar
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Union leaders say they've weathered the recession but improvement still needed

...of Laborers, said Alaska has been good to labor unions, both in support and most employment availabilities.American Federation of Labor, Congress of Industrial Organizations President Vince Beltrami said unions here have certainly held their...

http://juneauempire.com/not-web/2011-08-27/union-leaders-say-theyve-weathered-re
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McAdams calls for federal education reform

...but McAdams, surrounded by active and retired teachers, said he's backed by the smaller state chapter of the American Federation of Teachers. Struggling schools, he said, need resources to help them do better, not penalties. The threat...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/092110/sta_710516934.shtml
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Scientists trace global warming in Interior

...the U.S. negotiators of environmental accords in Kyoto, Japan; and Dr. Henry Kelly, the president of the American Federation of Scientists. The group spent all day Tuesday in and around Fairbanks before moving down the Richardson Highway...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/071403/sta_warming.shtml
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My Turn: Declining teacher pay hurts student achievement

...recent article in the Juneau Empire gives Alaska's educators reason for concern. Recently we learned that the American Federation of Teachers annual study of teacher average salaries shows that Alaska has dropped another notch, to 10th place...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/072303/opi_myturn.shtml
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Distance education: Taking the body out of 'student body'

...higher education issues for the American Federation of Teachers, a union with...distance programs concerns the American Federation of Teachers, a union that...higher education issues for the American Federation of Teachers. "But putting...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/101401/Loc_distancemain.shtml
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This Day in History

...the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment to the Constitution, repealing the 18th Amendment. In 1955, the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merged to form the AFL-CIO under its first president...

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