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Health and higher ed activists find time, 24-7 Sept. 8, 2005 . When Syracuse school nurse Ann O'Hara was asked what she planned on doing with her time off this summer, she took the chance to challenge the myth. "There's no time off any more," said O'Hara, who spent a week in August at New York State United Teachers' headquarters in Latham to be trained in providing a three-hour workshop on Infection Control and Barrier Precautions. "Besides that, I took a weeklong computer course for my own professional development, as well as trying to catch up on all the reading I missed during the year to keep current in my field of nursing," she said. NYSUT's health professionals and higher education members were represented in full force at union conferences and political action events. William Scheuerman, president of United University Professions, noted good-humoredly as he raced to a meeting at the American Federation of Teachers, "The pace is full speed ahead, even in the summer. Union work is important and the year-round pace reflects that." In addition to the statewide conferences NYSUT held over the summer, the union's 16 regional field offices also provide training throughout the year. Nationally, NYSUT's parent union, the American Federation of Teachers, this year held QuEST, a weeklong professional development conference. |
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