Civil Service Rally June 2017
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News
We've Moved!
June 29, 2017: We've completed our move from the office on Normandy Lane. Our new address is 6409 Odana Road, Suite 1-G, Madison WI 53719. Our new emails are:
mail@wpec.org
president@wpec.org
Phone: 608-316-6120
Rally for Civil Service
Saturday, June 17 at Noon
Excessive fees are crushing workers' retirements
A new AFT report reveals billions in potential savings if pension funds slashed fees paid to Wall Street fund managers who invest in risky “alternative” assets such as hedge funds and private equity.
AFT members make May 1 actions memorable
"Build schools, not walls" was the crisp, compelling message delivered by AFT activists at a series of May 1 actions stretching from Miami to San Francisco.
Upcoming Events
July 16 - 20 Women Rising. The Midwest School for Women Workers brings working women together to develop leadership skills, understand the challenges and issues facing the labor movement, and learn from one another.
WPEC Convention April 29, 2017
The 2017 WPEC Convention is scheduled for Saturday, April 29 at the United Way Building on Atwood Ave., Madison.
**** REGISTER HERE
(Contact wpec@aft-wisconsin.org if you have any difficulties.)
Call to Convention Includes 1 constitutional amendment
Proposed Constitutional Amendments must be received by February 28. Please use the approved form and send to wpec@aft-wisconsin.org.
The current consitution can be found under Membership/Key Documents.
2017-18 Scholarships
Weingarten speaks on the future of public education
In a speech at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., AFT President Randi Weingarten juxtaposed two approaches for education that would have vastly different consequences for America's students. Either build on the bipartisan consensus of the Every Student Succeeds Act to provide all families with access to great neighborhood public schools, or promote the dangerous, destructive approaches that Donald Trump's education secretary nominee advocates to undermine and privatize public education.