Mike Zilles
NTA EBulletin: September 15, 2024
Dear Colleagues, Below please find this week's notices. Know your Contract! Our Contractual Paid Leave Benefits are quite extensive,...
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Mike Zilles
- Sep 9
- 3 min
NTA EBulletin: September 8, 2024
Dear Colleagues, Below please find this week's notices. Bill Humphrey Finishes Second! (new) Bill Humphrey finished ahead of Rick...
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Mike Zilles
- Sep 3
- 4 min
NTA EBulletin: Labor Day 2024
Dear Colleagues, It was privilege to speak with all of you last Wednesday. The event was different on so many levels. First of all, I...
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Mike Zilles
- Aug 15
- 7 min
NTA EBulletin: August 13, 2024
Join your union siblings at City Hall at 4:15. This is a last push for Bill's campaign! Dear Colleagues, Last year was hard! I think,...
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Mike Zilles
- Jun 17
- 5 min
NTA EBulletin: June 16, 2024
Dear Colleagues, Heat! I know that is what is on many of your minds, particularly those of you who work in buildings where the air is not...
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Mike Zilles
- May 29
- 9 min
NTA EBulletin: May 27, 2024
Dear Colleagues, I hope you have enjoyed this glorious weekend, and hope as well that the respite has given you at least some small...
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Mike Zilles
- May 20
- 6 min
NTA EBulletin: May 19, 2024
Let's Celebrate Together! FAIR CONTRACT is getting back together for a one-time-only reunion concert as a part of Newton Porchfest! You...
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Mike Zilles
- May 6
- 7 min
NTA EBulletin: May 5, 2024
Kindergarten Aides Arbitration As I shared with you last week, the NTA just won an important decision in arbitration, when an arbitrator...
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Mike Zilles
- Apr 29
- 2 min
NTA EBulletin: April 28, 2024
Dear Colleagues, This weekend, a number of members of the NTA and I attended the MTA annual meeting in Springfield. Due to time...
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Mike Zilles
- Apr 8
- 10 min
NTA EBulletin: April 8, 2024, Revised and Supplemented
Please share this graphic and link on social media! Dear Colleagues, I did not have time to include everything I wanted in yesterday's...
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Mike Zilles
- Mar 18
- 2 min
NTA EBulletin: March 17, 2024
Dear Colleagues and Unionists: Fundraising Last week I wrote to you about the debt that the NTA has been left with due to the strike....
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Mike Zilles
- Mar 11
- 2 min
NTA EBulletin: March 10, 2024
Dear Colleagues and Unionists: Our two week strike cost approximately $800k. These include the actual costs of organizing the strike...
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Mike Zilles
- Feb 26
- 2 min
NTA EBulletin: February 25, 2024
Dear Colleagues and Unionists, It is very hard for us, as unionists, to perceive our strike in the same, negative way that...
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Mike Zilles
- Feb 20
- 6 min
NTA EBulletin: February 19, 2024
Dear Colleagues, As we reach the one month mark since taking our historic vote to go on strike, we are sending reminders of why we took...
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Mike Zilles
- Feb 12
- 6 min
NTA EBulletin: February 11, 2024
Dear Colleagues, It is becoming clearer to me that when we reached a tentative agreement that ended our historic 15 day strike on Friday,...
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Mike Zilles
- Feb 6
- 1 min
NTA EBulletin: February 4, 2024: Ratification Vote
Dear Colleagues, We did it! We have ratified this agreement overwhelmingly! Thank you to all who participated. Unit A 1065 voted 1048...
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Mike Zilles
- Jan 22
- 3 min
NTA EBulletin: January 21, 2024
Dear Colleagues, As I have focused on leading our negotiations team at the table, I have had to cede responsibility to others to lead our...
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Mike Zilles
- Jan 17
- 7 min
NTA EBulletin: January 17, 2024: Forum at Zervas Elementary
Open Letter to Chris Brezski, Dr. Anna Nolin, Members of the Newton PTO School Council, SEPAC and METCO: "We can't even agree on the...
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Mike Zilles
- Jan 7
- 6 min
NTA EBulletin: January 7, 2024
Dear Colleagues: Upcoming Actions MEDIATION. Your negotiations team will be meeting with the mediator tomorrow at 4:15. I deliberately...
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Mike Zilles
- Jan 2
- 7 min
NTA EBulletin: January 1, 2024
Dear Colleagues: I usually avoid putting pictures of myself in these updates, but this is the only still photo I have of the press...
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