Because faculty leave balance
information is provided via the Time and Leave Reporting (TLR) application and
viewable to faculty at any time, campus HR offices will no longer be sending
MSCF faculty members an annual system generate email message to provide leave
balance information. Access to leave accrual, usage, and balance information
has been available for a couple of years, and the TLR application is where
faculty leave is requested and approved, so most of your members should already
be familiar with it. In TLR, faculty will see their leave balances on the Manage Requests page, by selecting the View Balances tab. Selecting the down
arrow under More allows them to see
details regarding leave accrued and used.
Thursday, March 30, 2017
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Public Employee Pension Coalition Letter
Governor Mark
Dayton
Office of the Governor and Lt.
Governor
130 State Capitol
75 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
St. Paul, MN 55155
130 State Capitol
75 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
St. Paul, MN 55155
Dear
Governor Dayton:
Thank you
for defending our retirement security and our defined-benefit pensions.
The
people who do Minnesota’s work have deferred their wages for a pension that
allows them to retire comfortably with guaranteed income. Our modest benefits, combined with Social
Security, are the difference between dignity and poverty.
People
are living longer in Minnesota. Today’s
sixty-five-year-olds are expected to live two years longer. Two more years of collecting a benefit will
cost the retirement systems more. We’re
grateful that your proposed budget includes an increase in the employer’s contribution
to help public workers cover those costs for the 2018-19 biennium. It is the most significant investment ever
proposed.
We
encourage you to tap the surplus to budget for public pensions in the out
years. Together, with shared sacrifice,
we can ensure there are sufficient funds to pay promised benefits to retirees,
active employees and future hires.
Investing
in public pensions benefits the economy.
In 2016, nearly 200,000 Minnesotans received a benefit from one of the
public pension plans in our state, totaling more than $4 billion. Spending by recipients provides a steady
economic stimulus to Minnesota communities and our state economy. One person’s spending becomes another
person’s income, creating a multiplier effect.
Retirees of state and local government put three times as much money
back into our state economy as is collected by public pension plans from
taxpayers through employer contributions.
Minnesota’s
active and retired public workers are fortunate to have you as their champion.
Warm
regards and gratitude,
AFSCME
Council 5, AFSCME Council 65, AFSCME Chapter 5 Retirees, Communications Workers
of America MN State Council, Conservation Officers Association, Education
Minnesota, Education Minnesota Retired, Middle Management Association,
Minneapolis Committee of Thirteen Pension PAC, Minneapolis Firefighters Local
82, Minnesota AFL-CIO, Minnesota Association of Professional Employees,
Minnesota Government Engineering Council, Minnesota Nurses Association,
Minnesota Police Fraternal Association, Minnesota Professional Firefighters
Association, Minnesota State College Faculty, Minnesota State Patrol Troopers
Association, Police Officer’s Federation of Minneapolis, Retired Educators
Association of Minnesota, SEIU Local 284, St. Paul Teacher's Pension PAC,
Teamsters Local 320
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
AFT’s Weingarten on DeVos and Ivanka Trump's Visit to Space Museum; President Trump’s Proposed Budget Would Cut Funding for NASA’s Education Programs
For Immediate Release
March 28, 2017
Contact: Janet Bass
March 28, 2017
Contact: Janet Bass
202-879-4554
www.aft.org AFT’s Weingarten on DeVos and Ivanka Trump's Visit to Space Museum; President Trump’s Proposed Budget Would Cut Funding for NASA’s Education Programs
“This
takes chutzpah to a new level.”
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WASHINGTON—Statement by American Federation of Teachers
President Randi Weingarten on Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and First
Daughter Ivanka Trump’s visit to the National Air and Space Museum to promote
science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) careers; meanwhile President
Donald Trump’s proposed 2018 budget would eliminate funding for NASA’s
education programs:
“Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and Ivanka Trump are
feigning an interest in STEM careers with a photo op at the National Air and
Space Museum while eliminating all funding for NASA’s education programs.
This takes chutzpah to a new level. If this administration was genuinely
interested in promoting STEM programs, it would walk the walk, not just talk
the talk. The next generation of astronauts, scientists, engineers and
mathematicians need support, not budget cuts eliminating the very programs
being promoted.”
Follow AFT
President Randi Weingarten: http://twitter.com/rweingarten
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