Speakers will engage, update delegates

March 28, 2005

The busy schedule at this year's convention includes an impressive array of speakers. State Comptroller Alan Hevesi, state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno are scheduled to address delegates as well as state Education Commissioner Richard Mills.

NYSUT officers will update delegates on union efforts for the past year and priorities for the year to come. Also, video tributes to former NYSUT officers Antonia Cortese and Walter Dunn will be shown.

The busy schedule also includes presentations on the union's response to the AIDS crisis in Africa and unionization efforts in Mexico.