Tag: PJSTA

Welcome New PJSTA Members!

Welcome to the newest members of the PJSTA!  Today, 18 new members had their orientation with members of the PJSTA’s executive board along with members of our rank and file.  In addition to taking care of membership paperwork and getting to know their contract, PJSTA’s newest members were briefed on the current landscape of public …

A Message From Beth Dimino

A message from PJSTA President Beth Dimino… Governor Cuomo is wrong. He used junk science today to support his nonsensical theory that public education in NY is broken and that he alone has the “fix”. We can and will dissuade him of that opinion by each of us doing some or all of the following; …

Let’s Try Something New

I’d like to take a bit of a break from our typical posts on here, consisting of news related to unions and public education in general to focus on something new.  Across the school district we are employed in, PJSTA members can be found doing extraordinary work of all different varieties.  Much of this work tends …

Save the Date! PJSTA/Labor Notes Book Party- 10/16

On October 16th the PJSTA and Labor Notes will be hosting a book party for the book How to Jump-Start Your Union: Lessons from the Chicago Teachers.  The book party will be at Comsewogue High School at 6:00 pm.  Anyone is welcome to attend, not just PJSTA members.  There is no cost for admission.  You can …

Please Donate for Morgan Leary

At our conference day yesterday we heard the heartbreaking story of Morgan Leary, the daughter of PJSTA Rep Council member Emily Leary. Via the GoFundMe page for Morgan… Morgan Leary, 6 was suddenly and unexpectedly diagnosed with a brain tumor on August 16, 2014. She has undergone several surgeries to remove as much of the …