PJSTA Picketing with UWUA Local 1-2 Workers

**Update** An agreement has been reached pending ratification.  

Sign the AFT’s Petition to End America’s Fixation With High Stakes Testing!

All children deserve a rich, meaningful public education that prepares them for the opportunities, responsibilities and challenges that await them as they become contributing members of a democratic society. Growing our nation’s future citizens and workers is a serious undertaking that calls for a thoughtful focus on teaching and learning. But the growing fixation on …

First to Worst

From “Learning Matters“: First to Worst (2004) explores the roots of California’s current education crisis, tracing it to the anti-tax movement of the 1970’s and 80’s and to civil rights lawsuits that aimed to equalize school spending but resulted instead in disastrous funding limits on schools. The documentary pays special attention to the effects of …

Join Us to Support Locked Out Con Ed Workers!

This Wednesday, June 25th, at noon, PJSTA members, along with other NYSUT members, will be joining locked out members of the UWUA Local1-2 as they picket at 4 Irving Place in Manhattan. Remember that an attack on one labor union is an attack on ALL of us. Just as we ask them to support our …

Welcome to the PJSTA’s Official Blog!

Welcome to the official blog of the Port Jefferson Station Teachers Association!  We hope that you use this site to keep yourself up to date on all of the happenings of our local union, NYSUT, AFT/NEA, and the entire world of education and labor.  Feel free to comment and participate in all that we do! …