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Take Action! Fax four different letters to elected officials by going to www.nysut.org. If you would prefer to send a written or typed letter through the mail, here is a word document version of the NYSUT faxes:
Congressional e-mail - Find elected officials, including the president, members of Congress, governors, state legislators, local officials, and more.
NYSUT Legislative Action - Use this NYSUT sponsored page to send a fax or email to your state or national representatives.
VOTE-COPE (Voice of Teachers in Education - Committee on Political Education) is NYSUT's political action committee designed to further NYSUT's political agenda. It is your statewide union's voluntary, member-supported political action campaign. Members' donations to VOTE-COPE help support grass-roots lobbying by thousands of NYSUT members and boost candidates with strong records on education, health care and labor issues. VOTE-COPE is non-partisan and receives all of its support from voluntary member contributions. The money is used to lobby for legislation and to elect candidates who understand the importance of education and health care and who support the values of the organized labor movement. Funds from VOTE-COPE have been used for everything from winning a cost of living adjustment for retiree pensions to helping defeat dangerous voucher proposals. Another important feature of VOTE-COPE is that a percentage of the funds raised by a NYSUT local union are rebated back to the local to use for grassroots efforts, such as electing pro-union school board candidates or passing school budgets.
(information on VOTE-COPE from the NYSUT web site: http://www.nysut.org/cps/rde/xchg/nysut/hs.xsl/votecopeleader_4532.htm)
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