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Local 1600 now provides photos of all events at Smugmug.com.
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(June 18, 2008) The Parthenon Restaurant was filled with 136 retirees who wanted to hear what SURS Ex. Dir. Dan Slack had to say about pensions and what Chapter Chair Norm Swenson and V.P. CCC Sonia Jean Powell had to say about political challenges to their pensions. For the full story, click on the hyperlink headline. |
(June 15, 2008) At the end of the session, the Il. Com. Col. Coalition for Funding and Local 1600 achieved a great victory, but new challenges are coming. For the full story, click on the hyperlink headline. |
(June 12, 2008) Local 1600 Legislative Chair Bill Naegele receives the Meritorious Service Award from Illinois Community Colleges Trustees Association’s Vice President Jeff May at the ICCTA’s annual banquet on June 6. For the full story, click on the hyperlink headline. |
(June 9, 2008) The Voice walked away with two awards, and this website finished number one in our class in the AFTCN Communications Awards Contest. For the full story, click on the hyperlink headline. |
(June 4, 2008) Tuesday night, June 3, in Minneapolis, after the last two primaries in South Dakota and Montana, Senator Barack Obama claimed the Democratic Nomination in St. Paul, MN. Though he has the necessary votes, there is no concession yet from Senator Hillary Clinton, though she may bow out on Friday or Saturday. For the full story, click on the hyperlink headline. |
(June 3, 2008) David Richmond, the grievance chair of the Harper College Faculty Chapter, is a young man who has been very helpful to Past President Norm Swenson in winning a strike and to President Perry Buckley in preventing another one. You should know David Richmond; the members of his chapters do. For the full story, click on the hyperlink headline. |
(May 12, 2008) This year’s CCCTU Lobby Day (Apr. 29-30, 2008) was the longest day, indeed. Bill Naegele and Randy Barnette worked the House and Senate before the Pre-Lobby Day Dinner and Briefing on Apr. 29. A crowd of members lobbied during the Lobby Day Breakfast for Legislators at the Secretary of State’s office in the State House on Apr. 30. Finally, Perry Buckley and officers appeared at the House Appropriations Higher Education Committee at 3:00 p.m. where Buckley gave testimony. For the full story, click on the hyperlink headline. |
(May 9, 2008) On May 8, the Moraine Valley Faculty Association celebrated the end of the academic year at Pioneer Woods. For the full story, click on the hyperlink headline.
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(May 11, 2008) On May 7, the Moraine Valley Adjunct Faculty held their spring full membership meeting. President Perry Buckley, V.P. Suburban Jim O’Malley, Field Rep. Brenda Pryor and Web Manager Bob Blackwood from the union office were there to inform the members and to document the event. For the full story, click on the hyperlink headline.
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(April 27, 2008) Incoming V.P. Classified Jillian Verstrate led the Classified and Support Chapters and Local 1600 staff in attending the 31st Annual AFT PSRP Professional Issues Conference in Washington, D.C., on April 25-27. For the full story, click on the hyperlink headline.
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(April 12, 2008) The Spring 2008 CCCTU Leadership Conference on April 12 at the IFT Northern Illinois Headquarters in Westmont was a sold-out affair with a heady mix of savvy union veterans, Local 1600 officers and newcomers.
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(April 9, 2008) A higher education force converged on the State Capitol on Wed., April 9, when hundreds of higher education faculty members, employees and advocates rallied in support of legislative efforts to provide more state funding to the state’s beleaguered colleges and universities. See and hear the video too. For the full story, click on the hyperlink headline. |
(Mar. 27, 2008) The billboard campaign for priority funding for Illinois community colleges has begun. For more details, click on the hyperlink headline. |
(Mar. 25, 2008) President Perry Buckley asks for full funding for community colleges throughout Illinois before eight members of the Illinois House at the Regional Budget Hearing at Kennedy-King College on Mar. 25. For the full story, click on the hyperlink headline. |
(Mar. 7, 2008) Local 1600 voted from Mar. 3-5. We now have a new vice president for the classified and support staff, Jillian Verstrate. For the full story, click on the hyperlink headline.
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(Oct. 13, 2007) The Executive Board of the Illinois Federation of Teachers endorses a candidate for president in the Democratic presidential primary. For the full story, click on the hyperlink headline.
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