Highlights from the Oct 6th General Meeting...

The FDTA passed (without dissent) a protection motion that parallels the BCTF protection motion.

The motion reads as follows:
"The FDTA will provide political, financial, and legal support as necessary to any member who may face disciplinary action as a result of participation in a Federation approved job action activity or other collective strategy."

Also brought forward to the membership was a clarification of the employer's new position on TTOC call out. It remains the policy of the FDTA that teachers are not to contact TTOC's directly, and it is also the policy of the FDTA to not give the call out service the names of "preferred TTOC's"

Teachers do not hire, nor do they fire their colleagues. It is the employer's responsibility to do this.

Of critical importance to TTOC's is that the employer will be (in the near future) determining TTOC pay based solely on the record of the Call Out Service - not on the school records. Therefore, TTOC's who accept work directly from teachers will risk not being paid for that work.

The financial statements (FDTA and PD) were accepted.

The 2008 -2009 budget was presented, explained, and approved. It contained an increase in dues of $2.50/month/member. This increase is retroactive to September, so your October pay stub will reflect this.