UPDATE (11/30): Senate Fiscal Analysis of SB 102 shows significant costs for school districts
The Senate Fiscal Agency today testified in the Senate Appropriations Committee hearing that a proposal to dismantle the school employee retirement system would cost the state $1.6B to $3.8B over five years, as reported by the Detroit Free Press today.
DetailsIt’s official-Michigan’s new Speaker of the House, Rep. Tom Leonard (R-DeWitt), says one of his top priorities will be to come after educator pensions.
DetailsChanges are coming to education policy in Michigan, and several opportunities exist for MEA members and others to get involved.
DetailsMEA President Blasts Governor’s “Appalling” Choice in NEWS column Dozens of MEA and AFT-Michigan members demonstrated outside the offices of Gov. Rick Snyder on Tuesday, demanding the state return money stolen from their paychecks – a legal fight the two unions have been waging for more than five years. Instead, Snyder chose to extend the…
DetailsEAST LANSING, July 5, 2016 — The following can be attributed to MEA President Steven Cook: “It’s unconscionable that Gov. Snyder has chosen to continue appealing the recent court decision that school employees should be refunded the 3 percent of their salary that was illegally taken from them. “In light of Attorney General Schuette’s decision…
DetailsMEA President Steven Cook and several MEA members helped to deliver more than 33,000 petition signatures to the offices of Governor Rick Snyder and Attorney General Bill Schuette today, demanding they stop wasting taxpayer money appealing court rulings that say school employees are owed $550 million from unconstitutional paycheck deductions. “We’ve been fighting this court…
DetailsJune 8, 2016 (NOTE: Resending to you due to a broken link – sorry for any inconvenience.) MEA members, Together, as a union, we won a huge victory for school employees across the state yesterday. After five years of legal maneuvers, the Court of Appeals ruled in our favor today on the lawsuit attempting to…
DetailsOnce again a Michigan Appeals court has ruled in favor of MEA and AFT Michigan in the so-called 3 percent case involving unconstitutional deductions taken from school employees’ paychecks from 2010-12 to fund future health care in retirement. The case illustrates the power of standing together and taking collective action, as the litigation has stretched…
DetailsMichigan Education Association members anxious to learn if they’ll be reimbursed their 3 percent retirement contributions have been waiting for news of a Michigan Court of Appeals decision since November, the latest step in MEA’s long legal fight to get our members’ money back. No decision has been issued, and no word has come to…
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