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March 2007

A letter from the president

DA Endorses Sandra March for TRS Trustee

Dear Colleague:

sandra marchThe UFT Delegate Assembly on Feb. 7 endorsed Sandra March for re-election to the position of teacher-member of the New York City Teachers’ Retirement Board. Sandi has been involved in union affairs for many years. She has served as UFT legislative representative, District 26 representative, school chapter chair, delegate to the AFT, NYSUT and the New York State AFL-CIO conventions. In 1974 she won the Smallheiser Award for service to members and in 1999 the David Wittes Award for her many years of involvement in improving our members’ pension benefits.

In 2003 she was awarded the UFT’s prestigious Charles Cogen Award. Sandi was honored for her leadership in pension and retirement matters and her dedication to teacher unionism.

Sandi has been a UFT pension consultant who has provided pension counseling to countless retirement system members. She has written many articles in the New York Teacher, and is co-editor of the UFT’s popular pension newsletter PensioNews. She is the UFT’s liaison to the Retired Teachers’ Chapter. As the UFT’s legislative representative, she led the fight for many of the pension benefits we enjoy and fought against those that would have hurt us, such as the mayor’s Tier V proposal.

The law requires that candidates for the Retirement Board must be nominated by petition. Signatures on the petition forms must be secured now. I urge all members of the retirement system to sign Sandra March’s nominating petition to show full support for our candidate. Those eligible to sign include all regularly appointed members of the school staff: teachers, school secretaries, laboratory specialists, guidance counselors, school psychologists, social workers and those paraprofessionals who have joined the Teachers’ Retirement System. Since supervisors are part of TRS, they too can sign.

Please get all the signatures you can. Make sure that each petition sheet is properly certified as indicated on the bottom, and return no later than Wednesday, March 28.

Especially these days, when public employee retirement systems are under siege from many quarters with calls on a daily basis to privatize Social Security and to lower public sector employee pensions, our representatives on the retirement board are extremely important. It is essential for them to be devoted to the needs of our members and to our goals of preservation and improvement of our retirement benefits.

Sandra March has done an excellent job; let’s return her to office with all that good experience.

Fraternally,

Randi Weingarten

March 2007

A letter from the president

DA Endorses Sandra March for TRS Trustee

Dear Colleague:

sandra marchThe UFT Delegate Assembly on Feb. 7 endorsed Sandra March for re-election to the position of teacher-member of the New York City Teachers’ Retirement Board. Sandi has been involved in union affairs for many years. She has served as UFT legislative representative, District 26 representative, school chapter chair, delegate to the AFT, NYSUT and the New York State AFL-CIO conventions. In 1974 she won the Smallheiser Award for service to members and in 1999 the David Wittes Award for her many years of involvement in improving our members’ pension benefits.

In 2003 she was awarded the UFT’s prestigious Charles Cogen Award. Sandi was honored for her leadership in pension and retirement matters and her dedication to teacher unionism.

Sandi has been a UFT pension consultant who has provided pension counseling to countless retirement system members. She has written many articles in the New York Teacher, and is co-editor of the UFT’s popular pension newsletter PensioNews. She is the UFT’s liaison to the Retired Teachers’ Chapter. As the UFT’s legislative representative, she led the fight for many of the pension benefits we enjoy and fought against those that would have hurt us, such as the mayor’s Tier V proposal.

The law requires that candidates for the Retirement Board must be nominated by petition. Signatures on the petition forms must be secured now. I urge all members of the retirement system to sign Sandra March’s nominating petition to show full support for our candidate. Those eligible to sign include all regularly appointed members of the school staff: teachers, school secretaries, laboratory specialists, guidance counselors, school psychologists, social workers and those paraprofessionals who have joined the Teachers’ Retirement System. Since supervisors are part of TRS, they too can sign.

Please get all the signatures you can. Make sure that each petition sheet is properly certified as indicated on the bottom, and return no later than Wednesday, March 28.

Especially these days, when public employee retirement systems are under siege from many quarters with calls on a daily basis to privatize Social Security and to lower public sector employee pensions, our representatives on the retirement board are extremely important. It is essential for them to be devoted to the needs of our members and to our goals of preservation and improvement of our retirement benefits.

Sandra March has done an excellent job; let’s return her to office with all that good experience.

Fraternally,

Randi Weingarten