Hello fellow retirees! The Retiree Chapter, AFT 6157R, was officially chartered on December 1, 2007. This means that we will celebrate our 15th Anniversary in a few weeks. Congratulations and thank you!! What has sustained us is the support of our retirees. Your dues each year allow us to conduct our group activities and to represent the needs of retirees in our district. This is our sole source of funding. To date, our bank account has close to $40,000 in our accounts, all of it from your dues. We have been careful stewards of these accounts.
This past spring, we approved spending $5000 to conduct a legal review of the authority of the Retiree Board of Authority (RBOA), the District group that oversees the account that funds a retiree supplement to Medicare that was negotiated in 1982 for teachers and staff hired before September 1982. Retiree complaints we have received made it clear that this benefit has not kept up with the higher medical costs of today. The legal review established that the RBOA is allowed to discuss these issues and to make recommendations to the Board of Trustees.
This is how we put your dues to work to defend all retired teachers. Please renew your annual dues payment, $50 for full time faculty and $20 for adjunct faculty, if you have yet to do so.
How to pay: Either mail your check made out to ‘AFT 6157R’ to Ron Levesque, 2939 Crater Lane, San Jose, CA 95132. Or, pay online via credit card.
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Help us stay strong for another 15 years!
Gratefully,
Ron Levesque, Treasurer/Membership
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