UFEA: Unit Five Education Association
Union of education professionals affiliated with the Illinois Education Association and National Education Association - IEA-NEA, Advocating for Public Education Employees and Teachers in the McLean County Unit 5 School District located in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois
It’s important that as crucial elections come up this Fall (especially for Governor and statewide races) and this Spring (school board elections) our members are registered to vote. On September 9 at 4:30 the County Clerk’s office will be training our members to be voter registrars. Those who complete the training will be able to …
Continue to check here and at http://ieanea.org for updates, information and calls to action. Find out more information about the IEA recommendation, including a comparison of the two candidates and their views on public education.
The following document contains several helpful tools and resources for members that have been RIF’d. Information is included on topics such as: Posting of Vacancies and other Job Posting Who to Contact Final Payment Unemployment Insurance TRS Service Credit Legislation and Political Action This resource was provided to those who attended the meetings on May …
We’ve posted links to several stories, photos and videos from the April 21 SOS (Save our State/Save our Schools) Rally on the UFEA Facebook Page. Several of the stories feature images and quotes of UFEA and BEA members. If you’re on Facebook and haven’t yet “liked” the UFEA Page, you should! You can also follow …
We will be taking over 30 Unit 5 employees and friends to the Lobby Day in Springfield tomorrow. We’ll be joining about 20 others from Region 14 and thousands of others from across the State. We think we will have a big crowd, and we hope to be able to talk with our local legislators when …
After watching the video, go to www.ieanea.org to read more.
Next Friday (March 19) some of us will be in Chicago as delegates to the annual IEA Representative Assembly. The candidates for Governor (Pat Quinn and Bill Brady) will be at our meeting that day to answer our questions about what they intend to do to fund education in Illinois. The delegates to the Assembly are planning …
This morning the principals will be contacting all first year teachers to let them know they will be RIFed, and also to give them a brochure that includes information about the RIF and the timeline for applying and interviewing, etc. In addition to first year teachers, all non-tenured part time teachers will also be released. …