 
Education Support Professionals are the glue that holds Montana's public schools together!
MEA-MFT
is Montana's leading champion for kids, public schools, and
school employees -- including classified employees (Education
Support Professionals).
MEA-MFT has over 2,000 classified/ESP employees as members,
including school bus drivers, secretaries, custodians, maintenance
people, computer technicians, food service and health care
personnel, and paraprofessionals.
 Lynn Witts honored as MEA-MFT Education Support Professional of the Year
What MEA-MFT does for ESP members:
Professional development: MEA-MFT offers
conferences and workshops especially for classified employees,
with topics such as time management, assertiveness, professional
image, interview skills, workplace safety, student discipline,
and much more.
Members
attend these events free as part of their membership.
Our PASS program is helping hundreds
of Montana paraprofessionals meet the "highly qualified"
requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind law.
Better
salaries and working conditions: MEA-MFT works year-round
to help our local ESP affiliates negotiate
better salaries and working conditions for local MEA-MFT members.
Public support: Our award-winning Stand
Up For Education campaign is mobilizing thousands of Montanans
to call for better state funding of public schools.
Improving your retirement: MEA-MFT
has won several major victories for classified employees in
the state legislature to help you in your retirement years.
Read about our victories
in the 2009 Legislature.
Protecting you, your job, your family: Our
staff works with local members to negotiate good contracts;
enforce existing contracts; and improve your salary, benefits,
and working conditions.
Their
help is free to MEA-MFT members. Click
here to contact MEA-MFT staff members.
Your voice in issues that affect you:
MEA-MFT works closely with elected officials whose decisions
affect you and your job. We help elect friends of children
and public schools. We fight for policies that support education
and public school employees.
From the local school board to the state legislature to
the governor's office, we speak out for ESP members. For example, we continue to fight for unemployment
compensation for ESPs during summer layoffs.
Special benefits: members only
We know public school employees live on tight budgets. That's
why MEA-MFT works with NEA and AFT to find special discounts
for members.
These
services save members hundreds of dollars on home financing;
no-fee, low-rate credit cards; financial planning assistance;
low-cost car and home insurance; and much more. Click
here to learn more.
K-12
NEWS
Hot links:
MEA-MFT's ESP local affiliates
MEA-MFT's K-12
News
NEA
classified members' website
AFT
classified members' website
Join us!
Click here for information on joining MEA-MFT.
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