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M TA’s locals are now engaged in a kind of spring cleaning, working to update member demographic and contact information as a
necessary step in building stronger associations.
The MTA asks locals twice each year to provide
membership information. Somewhere along the line,
some of the information can be lost or isn’t updated.
This year the MTA launched a membership
census drive, asking locals to make a concerted effort
to collect accurate name, address, building, e-mail
and phone information for each member. Locals
are then entering that information directly into the
shared union database or are sending it to the MTA
for inputting so that the local, state and national
associations all have the same accurate information.
Good contact information for members is
important at all levels. For example, local leaders
need to keep members informed about contract
negotiations, upcoming events and local issues;
MTA’s Center for Education Policy and Practice
sends out alerts about new policies, such as deadlines
for signing up for RETELL courses; and MTA’s
elected leaders keep members informed about vital
policy debates that require member input or action.
Joseph Spremulli, president of the Norton
Teachers Association, said his local took care of the
request quickly.
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