"From Your President" Editorials
By RC10 President David Golden
In The RC 10 Skyline News Newsletter

              

January 2007

Legislative issues: Charter schools, tenure,
funding for education, pensions, medical
coverage. VOTE/COPE. Carol Jeffries and her
data team. RC10 Ambassador Program.
RC10 Regional Conference. Website.

March 2007

Mid winter/early spring luncheon: speeches
by Dennis Butler, NYSUT Legislative
Department, and David Keefe, NYS
Teacher Retirement Board. RC10
Ambassadors. RC10
Scholarship Program.

June-July 2007

The "why" of locating the RA. RA
COLA resolutions. Marea Reid-Roberts
and the RC10 Travel Program. RC10
Website Memorial Page. The Spring
Luncheon and the awarding of the RC10
"Distinguished Service Award"
to retiring NYSUT Retirement Services
Manager, Pat Longo. Speeches at the
luncheon by Floyd Cameron, new
NYSUT Retirement Services
Manager And Diane Cameron, Capital
Caregivers Director. Committee of 100.
The website and the newsletter.

August 2007

The plight of area BOCES retirees who
had their health insurance changed
without their input. The wider implications
of the decisions that were made to
bring this about. Note: SAS BOCES
refers to Capital Region BOCES.
The article is the edited second edition.
Earned 2008 NYSUT Award Of Merit

October 2007

More on local negotiated changes in
retiree health benefits, including BOCES
and Cohoes. The need for retirees and
inservice members to communicate
within their locals. The need of retirees
from various RC10 districts to communicate
with each other through RC10 and its
Ambassador Program. NYSUT Membership
Bill of Rights.

November 2007

Choice of Health carrier. More on
NYSUT Bill of Rights. Toast to Marea
Reid-Roberts, retired RC10 trip director,
and her husband, Bud. RC10
Scholarship Program progress.
Invitation to get active in RC10.

January 2008

NYS Budget cuts!?!
Maintaining our retirement system
for new teachers, too. National dialogue
on health care. Jane Weihe and Ernie Reis
attend AFL/CIO health campaign meeting.
Barbara Bishop to join CSEA as a retiree to
act as liason about pensions, etc.
Protecting Social Security. Eileen Wrightsman
will be missed as she retires as NYSUT RC9&10
Liason. Please contact your law makers when asked.

April 2008

Defending tenure. Enemies of
education are attacking and
distracting. Improving NYSUT
Constitution. Dealing with GASBY.
Great trip offerings. May 29
Luncheon.

May 2008

COLA. Attacks on pensions of all because of
actions of a very few. CSEA ideas on saving
government entities money. Importance of
becoming a fee paying member of RC10,
contributing to VOTE/COPE, joining the
RC10 Alert Email Service, and checking the RC10
website at www.nysut.org/rc10 frequently.

September 2008

TaxCap. NYSUT endorsements.
Obama Road Warriors

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