Greetings All,

If you are a member of Unit A and are interested in running to be elected to the Negotiation Team for next year’s contract negotiations, please email your name to Jim Noonan by February 3rd.

Thank you.

Do you want to know more about

• The Massachusetts Maternity Leave Law?
• The Family and Medical Leave Act?
• The Pregnancy Discrimination Act?
• The Small Necessities Leave Act?
• Who is eligible for leave under FMLA and SNLA?
• What is a serious health condition for the purposes of the FMLA?
• and more?

The MTA Division of Legal Services has prepared a Question & Answer sheet to help you get the answer to these questions. You can access this reference sheet by selecting this link:

Pregnancy and Parental Leave for School Employees

Additional documentation has been added to the “Teacher’s Resources” page of this website to provide information about retiring and your MTRS benefits. This process can be confusing and should be initiated at least 7 months in advance to insure you receive sick time buy back, if applicable, and gather the necessary documentation. MTRS has excellent video resources and often holds retirement seminars. Be sure to also visit their website at: https://mtrs.state.ma.us/.

This weekend, we updated the website to hopefully make it easier to find the necessary resources you are searching for in the “Teacher Resources” page. Under our “Contracts” page, Memorandums of Understanding and Memorandums of Agreement are included in the drop down menu.

Reducing the choices in dropdown menus and making the choices more specific, will hopefully allow the navigation to work a little more smoothly.

Select this link to view the Membership Due Schedule.

The 2022-2023 dues rate chart and fillable enrollment application are linked here:

• Link -Dues Rates
• Link – Fillable Enrollment Application

There were no changes to the MTA segment of the dues chart in FY2022-2023 but we would like to again highlight the updates to the MTA segment of the dues chart resulting from Bylaw changes made previously at the 2021 Annual Meeting of Delegates:

• There is an additional FTE based MTA category: Now half time (0.0-0.5 FTE), three quarter time (0.51-0.80 FTE) or full time (0.81-1.00 FTE)
• There is an additional leave of absence reduction: Now full year unpaid LOA, half year unpaid LOA and 8 plus week unpaid LOA qualify for reductions
• The three annual dues reduction dates (11/14, 2/1, 4/14) are now based on enrollment date rather than hire date. This only applies to first time members.

As a reminder, total member dues include 3 components:

• NEA Dues
• MTA Dues
• Local Dues (as applicable)

NEA and MTA dues are charged and payable to the MTA based on each local’s payroll schedules and submissions can be made:

• Directly from the employer to the MTA
• Pulled from your bank accounts monthly via an ACH transaction
• Sent by check