MTA Retired Member Events

Heat stress can sap energy, exacerbate health problems and impede learning in schools.  Let's explore how heat affects our health and consider individual and union, organizational and community-based ways to address the underlying causes.

Responding as retirees to the challenges facing educators of color, the Retired Members Committee asked ourselves what we could do to help. Our conversations with retirees of color led to several actions, including a collaboration with the New Members Committee and EMAC (Ethnically Marginalized Affairs Committee) to create the “Mentoring of New Educators of Color” program, pairing each mentee with a retired educator of color mentor. Join us to hear more about our work to increase the involvement of retirees of color and the stories of our mentors and mentees as they navigate(d) the field of education.

Do you ever wonder why we seem to have enough money for the military [or war] but not enough for schools? Given the historic dependence of public schools on local property taxes and State level programs, many educators and parents are not aware of the federal component. Though currently smaller than state and local sources, this reflects the diversion of critical human needs investments to war and weapons budgets rather than education. Presently more than half the income taxes we send to the federal government go to the military. The Books not Bombs campaign identifies paths to increasing public education funding by cutting wasteful and dangerous military spending.