Take Action

Take action: provide a living wage to all educators and PSRPs! Lets celebrate our paraprofessionals and school related personnel by fighting for an Act relative to educator pay—essential legislation that would establish salary minimums of $70k for teachers and $55k for paraprofessionals and adjust for inflation. You know as well as we do: it’s impossible to overstate how life changing this legislation would be for thousands of our members. Please take a moment to use our tool to email your legislator asking them to help advance An Act relative to educator pay! Together we can make sure that none of our dedicated PSRPs aren’t forced to work second or third jobs just to make ends meet.  

A solution to many of the municipal challenges is to find new revenue sources that don’t hurt every day working people or small businesses.  That’s why we are in support of Corporate Fair Share!

Raise Up Massachusetts is a grassroots coalition committed to building an economy that works for everyone. As a longtime member, the AFT Massachusetts is proud to have played a role in the group’s important campaigns in recent years including Earned Sick Time, Paid Family Medical Leave, raising the minimum wage, and the Fair Share Amendment. The Coalition recently  launched a campaign to help generate new sources of revenue to support working families across Massachusetts. Right now, multi-billion dollar corporations are allowed to hide their profits in off-shore tax havens to avoid paying taxes in Massachusetts. 

The Corporate Fair Share bill, An Act combatting tax avoidance, S.2033 and H.3110, would increase the share of those offshored profits that Massachusetts collects tax on  -- bringing our policy in line with federal tax policy and what our neighbors in Rhode Island, Vermont, Maine, and New Hampshire already do. Please take a moment to contact your legislators: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/gilti-click-to-email

Members of Massachusetts Education Justice Alliance (MEJA)  are the students, parents, educators, community and union members who stand united in support of the most essential public good, one conceived in our state two centuries ago: universal, free public education.

MEJA partner organizations and activists including AFT Massachusetts believe that public education, pre-kindergarten through college, is the foundation of our democracy. Public education must be protected and “cherished,” as our state Constitution demands.

Click here to get updates and learn more about MEJA.

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Make your views known to those in Congress and state legislatures who represent you on the issues that affect working families every day.  Visit the AFT's Take Action page.