Registration 3:30-5:30 |
Registration, coffee & cookies |
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Greetings 4:05-4:15 |
Greetings from the MCCC President |
Joe LeBlanc, MCCC President |
Breakouts 4:25-5:15 |
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DCE Contract Basics |
Diana Yohe, DCE Bargaining Team Chair |
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Day Contract: “The Day Contract, even if you didn’t read it” (appointments, workload, evaluation, Weingarten Rights, grievance) |
Dennis Fitzgerald, MCCC Day Grievance Coordinator |
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Distance Education Issues: Dealing with a change or upgrade in college learning management systems. |
Joe Rizzo, DCE Grievance Coodinator, and Richard Lizzotte, Northern Essex CC |
4 |
Social Media: Legal and Contractual Issues |
Laurie Houle, MTA Legal |
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Professional Staff Issues - Come and talk to representatives of this committee |
Karen Carreras-Hubbard, Prof. Staff issues Cmt Chair, and Karen Riedl, Holyoke Chapter President and Director, Retired |
Buffet 5:25-5:55 |
Buffet Dinner |
Salad, Soup, Chicken Marsala, Baked Scrod, Penne Pasta Primevera. Dessert: Chocolate Bread Pudding with Whppped Cream. Coffee, Tea |
MTA Welcome 6:00-6:20 |
MTA Greetings & Campaign for Communities |
Paul Toner, MTA President |
Featured Speaker
6:25-7:15 |
A Spine is a Terrible Thing to Waste
aka Why I, too, am a knee jerk liberal |
Arnie Arnesen - Well known political activist and media pundit - Click for more! |
Breakouts 7:25-8:15 |
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 Mind the Passion Gap: How to reframe the anger … your "to do" list. |
Arnie Arnesen - Featured Speaker |
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Day Contract: “ Full-time Classification - How it works” (how points are assigned at hire and status changes) |
Dennis Fitzgerald, MCCC Day Grievance Coordinator |
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Retirement for Full-Time Members - the Massachusetts State Employees Retirement System (SERS) |
Ed McCourt, MBCC, and MTA Retirement Consultant |
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What makes a good chapter leader? Discussion, with an introduction to MTA’s Full Capacity Locals |
Karen Riedl, Holyoke Chapter President and Director, Retired , Katie Durso, MTA Consultant |
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DCE Issues: OBRA (DCE Retirement) Presentation followed by Group Discussion on topics of interest to DCE members |
Linda Grochawalski, DCE At-Large Director; OBRA Rep Rob Young |
Wrap-Up 8:25-8:45 |
Closing Session - Open Discussion & Prizes
(5 x $100) |
Joe LeBlanc, MCCC President |
