It's coming-- the floor fights in the State House and Senate over the so-called Right to Work bills and the other attempts to weaken our collective bargaining rights will start next week.

The SEBAC lawsuit concerning the Rowland layoffs is nearing the final stagtes of settlement.  There are two steps remaining:  (1) The Connecticut General Assembly must review the settlement.  If the General Assembly takes no further action by June 1, 2015, the settlement will be deemed approved.  (2) The Court must approve the settlement.  The Court will schedule a hearing in the early fall in which it will consider whether to give final approval for the setlement.

Students from Green River College started a petition at Change.org, demanding fairness from President Eileen Ely and the Board of Trustees.  

PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION HERE - AND SHARE WITH FRIENDS, FAMILY AND SUPPORTERS.  

On May 13th, nearly 400 students, staff, faculty, and community members rallied in the rain for over an hour to protest at Green River College and sign a vote of no confidence in the college president., requesting her dismissal from her position. Over 340 people marched to deliver that document to the offices of the Board of Trustees as seen here.

The faculty of Green River College overwhelming pass a second Vote of No Confidence in President Eileen Ely and provide a detailed letter supporting the many reasons for this vote.  

The BOCES United Professionals website lives here! AFT, our national union, provides us this space for free, where we can share the news and documents you're used to finding on our website. 

We have moved content from our old site to here. For instance, the minutes from Delegates Assembly meetings are available under the menu listing titled "Resources." If there's anything you'd like to see here, suggest it, and/or write it up and submit it.

New guidelines have been issued by the Comptroller's Office which now require that, under our health plan, prior authorization be obtained  for compound medications containing non-FDA approved ingredients.  The issuance of the new guidelines was made by the Comptroller's Office without the consent of SEBAC.  As a result SEBAC has filed a grievance contesting the state's right to unilaterally establish guidelines without SEBAC's consent.  Follow the link to an FAQ issued by the C

Sould teacher evaluatio9ns be based on high-stakes testing? Two superintendents respond differently. Click here to see how our Superintendent Roland Hernandez sees it differently from Superintendent Mark Henry at Cypress-Fairbanks.