Resources for Native American Heritage Month
November 8, 2022
Resources from [Upstander](https://upstanderproject.org) Academy for Native American Heritage Month

Resources from [Upstander](https://upstanderproject.org) Academy for Native American Heritage Month
Be aware that proposals for sabbatical leave are due on November 15!
SEBAC leadership continues to advocate for pandemic hero pay that will recognize our state members’ sacrifices throughout COVID-19 and the critical role they, like all front-line workers played, in getting all of us through the worst of the pandemic.
SEBAC leadership continues to advocate for pandemic hero pay that will recognize our state members’ sacrifices throughout COVID-19 and the critical role they, like all front-line workers played, in getting all of us through the worst of the pandemic.
As we move towards Labor Day weekend, our union wants to take the opportunity to celebrate our members, who have transformed our union. You have stood together to win a contract and you have spoken up against injustices to employees. Our union has become stronger because of your actions and your voices.
Please see below for the draft salary grids for FY22-24 for our full-time tenure-track members. The part-time and Educational Assistant member salary rates are not yet available because our current dispute with management over these wage increases.
Financial Aid members across our state met as a group for over seven months to work together and support each other in transitioning into new positions as part of the move towards CT State. Our unions, 4Cs and AFSCME, recently successfully completed placements for all impacted full-time members.
Our union continues to hear of significant problems related to problems with Payroll HR Shared Services.
Our unions, 4Cs and AFT, finally came to an agreement with CSCU regarding iTeach.
Congratulations to Kofi Adomako-Ayisi on winning the election for Secretary, and thank you to runner up Merja Helen Lehtinen for running for office.
A Member Organizer (MO) is a 4Cs member who actively contributes to, leads, and champions our locals’ mission of organizing workers. A MO has a clear understanding of how essential organizing is to maintaining our contract standards and lifting up worker standards across higher education. A Member Organizer is able to communicate, motivate, recruit and mobilize members in our union and workers outside of our union to participate in organizing efforts and campaigns.
On April 28, the unions of the AFL-CIO, including the 4Cs, will observe Workers Memorial Day to remember those who have suffered and died on the job, and to renew the fight for safe jobs.
On April 9, nearly 400 SEIU members gathered for the 2022 Climate, Jobs and Justice Summit to learn about the increasingly urgent need to reverse the climate changes that are disproportionately affecting low income communities of color.
Calling all 4Cs union members! The 4Cs Political Action Committee (PAC) is ramping up for the 2022 election season!