Organizing Mission Statement
At Education First, Boston, the teachers are dedicated to making EF Boston an engaging and innovative place to study and work. We are committed to providing a high-quality education, promoting innovation and encouraging cultural exchange. The teachers of EF Boston work tirelessly to create lessons and curricula, and help their students reach their academic goals.
For too long, the educators at EF Boston have dedicated themselves to their work without representation. Without its teachers, there is no EF Boston. We are the life blood of this institution. We are the ones who sacrifice our time and energy to make sure that each student is receiving quality language education. EF's success is our success and we want to share it.
We, the teaching staff of EF Boston, are organizing to become members of the Communications Workers of America. We want to build a strong workplace union through which we will fight for better wages, improved benefits and good working conditions. We know the importance of the work we do.
We know that organizing a union will provide us with the protection we need to do an even better job working for our students.
We are organizing for:
- A collective voice. We, as a whole, want a seat at the table and a say in the workplace changes that affect our daily lives.
- A legally-binding contract that clearly defines our terms and conditions of employment and protects us from changes at the whim of management.
- Transparency and fairness in management's decision-making processes.
- A fair and equitable system regarding distribution of classes, scheduling and vacation time.
- Fair compensation for lesson preparation time, when we work over 40 hours a week, or need to stay late to do paperwork.
- Competitive wages including regular increases in our base salary, instead of small, arbitrary increases.
- Clearly defined job duties and responsibilities.
- Legal assurance that we cannot be disciplined or fired without just cause.
We are confident that we can achieve our goals if we stand united as a group -- for our students, our families and for ourselves. These goals will give us the freedom and stability to provide the best possible education for our students and continue doing the work we love. We call upon EF to recognize and respect our legal right to organize. We ask that every teacher join us in our campaign for a strong and united voice.
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Support ESL Teachers in Boston!
Target: Jon Cell, School Director, EF Boston & Shamil Mohammed, Director of Operations- East Coast, EF Boston
Teachers at EF's International Language Center in Boston provide quality English instruction to students from around the world and take pride in the work they do -- all they want is fair compensation for that work and the respect they deserve. That's why these teachers are organizing to form a union and join The Newspaper Guild of the Communications Workers of America (CWA).
Please sign here to ask that EF school administrators respect teachers' right to organize and remain neutral during the union election process, which is scheduled for November 20th.
To: Jon Cell, School Director, EF Boston & Shamil Mohammed, Director of Operations- East Coast, EF Boston
From: [Your Name]
Dear Jon Cell and Shamil Mohammed,
As you know, a group of your employees want to join The Newspaper Guild, which is part of the Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO.
We, the undersigned, write to ask that you remain neutral in word and deed, allowing your employees to make their own decisions free of either explicit or implicit pressure from their boss. We also urge you to recognize CWA if a majority of your workers sign a union card indicating their desire for representation. As you may know, this procedure called “card check recognition” is quite common.
As members of the community, we have a stake in making sure all workers in Boston, including your teachers, have the right to organize and demand better wages and working conditions. Please be aware that we will continue to support these teachers and monitor this situation as it unfolds.
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