AFT Resolution

SUPPORT FOR PATCHOGUE-MEDFORD CONGRESS OF TEACHERS

WHEREAS, AFT is committed to providing all possible assistance to locals affected by attacks on rights pro­tected under the Constitution of the United States of America and its amendments; and

WHEREAS, the Patchogue-Medford Congress of Teachers, a member local of AFT, is currently involved in a precedent, setting costly legal action to combat an attack on member rights protected under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution:

RESOLVED, that the AFT executive council give serious consideration to providing financial assistance to the Patchogue-Medford Congress of Teachers to offset expenses incurred in that local's battle against the capricious and unconstitutional drug testing of its members.

 

(1986)