Bucks County CC Federation of Teachers

Scholarships for AFTPA Families

Links to Three Scholarship Applications for AFTPA Families

To Register for This Site

To Register For This Website . . . click on the REGISTER HERE link in the left frame. You need your AFT member # on the AFT member card, NOT your BCCC employee #. For membership # help, see https://www.aft.org/members/help.cfm or E-Mail: Membership Department or Phone: 888/238-5646.

How Wall Street steals from Higher Education

How Wall Street steals from Higher Education: Student loan payments, risky interest rates to pay for college investments and for-profit skim are costing students, families and taxpayers $44 billion a year. Watch the video to learn more and take action!

Our Group at the 50th Anniversary March on Washington for Jobs and Justice

12 people from the BCCC community attended the 50th Anniversary March on Washington for Jobs and Justice.

Solidarity wins! CCP faculty, staff OK contracts

Congratulations to the amazing Faculty and Staff Federation of Community College of Philadelphia, Local 2026, which reached tentative agreements on three contracts Wednesday night, averting a strike that could have disrupted learning forf 27,000 students. Solidarity wins!

PA legislators, college students and union leaders rallied in the Capitol Rotunda on Wednesday urging lawmakers to approve a plan that would provide free college education for thousands of students. PA Promise would create a grant program to cover up to four years of tuition at a state owned or state related university or community college for families who make $110,000 annually or less and it would cover tuition, room and board for students whose families make $48,000 or less.

AFT Pennsylvania has endorsed U.S. Navy Captain (Ret.) Pam Iovino for the PA Senate District 37 seat formerly held by Republican Guy Reschenthaler. Iovino is running in a special election called after Reschenthaler was elected to the U.S. Congress.

The Pennsylvania House and Senate have named the following legislators as majority and minority chairs of their committees. The retirements and election losses brought major leadership changes to several committees.

Educators at Pittsburgh Charter School Win Union

PITTSBURGH - Educators at Environmental Charter School here have in December for union representation in an official ballot conducted by the National Labor Relations Board.

A clear majority of ECS teachers and other professionals elected to unionize after signing a petition last month stating their desire to join the American Federation of Teachers. Voter turnout was 100 percent.

ECS teachers, nurses, counselors, social workers, academic coaches and educational assistants will now move to collectively bargain a first contract with their administration that bolsters voice in decision making and

New Foundations Charter School ratifies first union contract

Teachers and support staff at New Foundations Charter School in Philadelphia ratified their first union contract unanimously after 11 months of negotiations. The faculty and staff voted to join the Alliance of Charter School Employees, Local 6056 of the American Federation of Teachers, AFT Pennsylvania, in 2017.