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CEA brothers and sisters,
Our union membership and representatives will be in attendance at the Juneau Maritime Festival this Saturday, May 4th, from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm at the Alaska Steamship dock. If you are interested in volunteering some of your time, any amount is welcome! You can contact Joel Hill for more information via email at jhill@apea-aft.org. For general information, make sure to check their official website here: https://www.jedc.org/maritimefestival/ We hope to see you there! Yours in solidarity, CEA Executive Board Brothers and Sisters, We have a few things worth mentioning for April: 1. On April 16, 2019 at noon, we have our annual CEA meeting. We look forward to seeing you there! 2. In Juneau, On April 25, 2019, there will be a "Taking Control of Your Retirement" education event, presented by Merrill Lynch - AHK Group. (PDF Below) 
Please note: attendance for the annual CEA meeting, as well as the education event, are restricted to dues-paying members in good standing. 3. We would like to encourage you all to attend "Mother Jones in Heaven," a one-woman musical, by Si Kahn. This is a story about Mary Harris, an American union organizer, and her tireless efforts on behalf of the working class. (PDF Below)
If you have been impacted by the November 30, 2018 earthquake, please consider applying for the APEA/AFT Disaster Relief Grant! Click here for a PDF application. If you are interested in donating to this cause, click here.
In solidarity, Your CEA Executive Board Joseph Reeves, President Angelica Johanson, Vice President Brook Riley, Treasurer Chad Bolduc, Secretary Paul Affatato, At Large Jing Xi ”Jessie” Li, Out of Juneau Kimberley King, At Large Your CEA Board is pleased to announce the results of the contract ratification vote.
The negotiated contract for 2019-2022 is officially ratified. The overall number of ballots cast by our members exceeded our expectations, and the contract was ratified by a wide margin. 83% of the voting members voted to accept the negotiated contract. The contract will now go before Legislators for funding and CEA will meet with the Department of Administration to sign the final version. We will continue to update you as everything progresses, remember to like us on Facebook, watch for a new Twitter feed and check out our website https://www.cea-alaska.org/ In Solidarity, Your CEA Executive Board, Joseph Reeves, President Angelica Johanson, Vice President Brook Riley, Treasurer Chad Bolduc, Secretary Paul Affatato, At Large Jing Xi ”Jessie” Li, Out of Juneau Kimberley King, At Large Good morning, CEA members!
As we continue to assemble information for the upcoming vote (re: contract ratification), we will not be holding CEA executive board meetings for November or December. We anticipate the next official meeting January 15, 2019. We wish you all happy and safe holidays, and thank you for the great feedback and participation this year! It really has been help and gratifying for us to be part of such a great, hard-working group of people. In solidarity, Your CEA executive board Congratulations Paul Affatato and Carlos Meda Frias for being the first recipients of the Ryan Olaf Johanson scholarship. Good luck to everyone next year! In solidarity, Your CEA executive board   We have two important announcements today!
First: The November CEA executive board meeting has been postponed until further notice. We sincerely apologize for any confusion around the date changes and thank you all for your patience as we work around negotiations and holiday schedules. Second: Our CEA negotiations team and the State of Alaska have reached a tentative agreement for our 2019-2022 CEA contract negotiations! In addition to furlough ending, please CLICK HERE to see an attached summary of changes. And a big THANK YOU! to our negotiations team, for all your time and effort on this! We apologize for the late notice, but due to our negotiations schedule the November board meeting will be moved to November 21, 2018 from 12:00 - 13:00. As a reminder, you can call in to 1-888-636-3807, with the code 9742514, or attend in-person on the 10th floor of the SOB, in the small conference room.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact anybody on the executive board for more information! In solidarity, Your CEA executive board Thank you all for your patience while we get the new website up and running! We will begin posting simultaneously from here and social media to announce any upcoming events, as well as to notify you about new surveys.
On that note, we would greatly appreciate your input on what you want from our next contract. We'll be entering negotiations very soon and we're trying to get the best contract we can for you! Please take a few minutes to answer some questions and offer insight following this link: www.surveymonkey.com/r/NF8CV6W As always, if you have anything you want to tell us about, ask about, or just want to get to know your executive board members, please feel free to do so! We do our best to be easily accessible and genuinely want to hear from you! You can find our contact information here: www.cea-alaska.org/contactus.html In solidarity, CEA Executive Board We have finally published a new website for the Confidential Employee Association. We hope that this new site will be more user friendly and be a location to find additional information about what is happening with CEA. Under Membership there are links to the contract, DRB site, and other resources related to membership. The Events / News page will include announcements and updates from the Executive Board.
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