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Week 9 in the Legislature

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Senate Finance Set to Determine Your Raise On Sunday afternoon, the Senate Finance Committee is scheduled to deliberate the budget bill (HB 1) and they will determine how much money to allocate for teacher and school employee raises. If the Senate doesn’t fund raises in the budget, then teachers and school employees aren’t getting raises this year, so this is very important! Click here to ask the Senate Finance Committee to support additional raises for teachers & school employees. MORE

Building Representatives and Voting Information

Union members can nominate up to 3 employees at their school to be a building representative.  Nominations close on Monday, May 23.  Voting will take place June 6-10.  These forms can be found in our newly created Google Classroom for Federation members.  Click here to see the advertisement flyer and class code.  Click here to see some FAQ.  Please email union@stfed.org with any questions. 

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Financial Reopener Breakdown

Click here to find out more details about the 2022-2023 pay raise.

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REC Recognizes Additional Funding – Will it Go Towards Your Raise?

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On Monday, May 9th the Revenue Estimating Conference met to review and revise the Official Revenue Forecast for FY22 and FY23 as well as recognize FY21 year-end balances. The REC recognized an additional $350 million in revenue for this year (and $104 million for next year). Now, the question is: how will the legislature choose to use this additional funding? MORE

Week 8 in the Legislature

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On Monday morning the Revenue Estimating Conference (REC) will meet to review and revise the Official Revenue Forecast for FY22 and FY23 as well as recognize FY21 year-end balances. It is widely expected that the REC will recognize additional revenue. The question is, how will the legislature choose to spend this additional revenue. LFT has long advocated that some of these additional monies should go towards teacher and school employee pay raises. We have asked legislators to boost the pay raise from $1,500 for certified staff and $750 for classified personnel to $2,500/$1,250 as a minimum. In truth, teachers and school employees deserve even more and as neighboring states continue to boost pay for their educators, Louisiana falls further behind. Next week, legislators will know how much additional revenue they have to work with and the horse-trading will begin. MORE

Important: Federation Email Address

Attention All:

We have had some issues with the Spectrum/Charter email system these past couple of months, so we have moved in a new direction with our emails. We have had a forward and automatic reply feature set up on all emails to ensure that we don't miss an email. However, we have recently discovered that our main email sttamfed@charter.net is completely out of commission. Spectrum says that the email has been inactive for quite some time and they don't understand how we have been using it. To top it all off, there is no way to recover it. As a result, if you try to email sttamfed@charter

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