Blogging and Employee Rights

 
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has great information regarding the protection of workers' rights. Click here to be taken to the site. Below is the link to an article that specifically focuses on protecting the blogging rights of workers, and how your union can help protect your rights:

Legal Guide for Bloggers

Special thanks to Rebecca for sending along this information--my fellow bloggers who blog  on educational issues throughout the state will find it very informative!

Roni

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Labor Day...Strength in Numbers

 
Labor Day is a harbinger of the opening of public schools in the Northeast--but not before the parades, barbecues, and last trips to the shore. The History Channel’s brief history of Labor Day (along with other short films on the American labor movement) can be seen here. 

The two unions that represent educators in the United States are, of course, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA). Plainfield Public School employees are members of the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA), an NEA affiliate. You can read about the history of the NJEA by clicking on the link below to read the Special Issue. On page 24, as part of the story titled "QEA Mobilizes NJEA," you will see former Plainfield Education Association President Tom Falocco:

NJEA Review - 150th Anniversary Commemorative Issue

For a national perspective, take a moment to listen to NEA President Dennis Van Roekel's Labor Day Message for 2012:

 

   Remember the reason for this holiday, and get out and enjoy it--you earned it!

Roni

Note: All data and information provided on this site is in the public domain and is for informational purposes only. This is a personal weblog. The opinions expressed here represent my own. --Veronica Taylor