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It also brings a clear-eyed understanding of the challenges ahead.
That reality is not just frustrating; it’s wrong.
That’s the basis for our One Job Should Be Enough campaign. It’s a simple idea, rooted in dignity and fairness: if you work full time, you should be able to support yourself and your family — without working a second or third job, without relying on food pantries, and without wondering how you’ll make rent.
Our teaching assistants, school secretaries, custodians, bus drivers, food service workers and security personnel are the backbone of our schools and communities. Yet too many are caught in a system where wages haven’t kept pace with the cost of living, even as housing, food, childcare, and healthcare costs soar.
This campaign is about shining a light on those stories and using our collective power to demand change.
It is just one element of NYSUT’s organizing and advocacy in the year ahead. At the negotiating table, in Albany, and beyond, we are ready to fight to make sure our members’ voices are heard and their work is valued.
Progress doesn’t happen by accident. It happens when we stand together and insist on better: for schools that meet every child’s needs, for a tax system where everyone contributes their fair share, for fully funded public education, and for living wages for all of our members.
One job should be enough. And together, we’re going to keep fighting until it is.
In solidarity,
@MelindaJPerson
MelindaJPerson