Utah School Employees Association (USEA)

🍎 🥪 Take Back the Lunch Break, Utah! 🥪 🍎

Today is National Take Back the Lunch Break Day—a reminder that everyone deserves time to reset, recharge, and take care of themselves during the workday. For Utah’s education support professionals, this isn’t just about a lunch break—it’s about respect, dignity, and fair working conditions.

From bus drivers and custodians to paraeducators, nutrition workers, office staff, and more, USEA members keep our schools running. Yet too often, lunch breaks are shortened, interrupted, or skipped entirely to meet the needs of the job.

That’s not sustainable—and it’s not right.

🤝 As a union, we stand together to:
• Protect uninterrupted, duty-free lunch breaks
• Advocate for fair schedules and workloads
• Ensure every ESP is treated with respect

Taking your full lunch break isn’t just self-care, it’s solidarity. When we stand together and insist on the time we’ve earned, we strengthen our voice and profession.

💬 Today, we encourage all USEA members to:
• Take your full lunch break
• Support coworkers in doing the same
• Speak up if your break time is not being honored

Because when we protect our time, we protect each other. 💙

📢 Utah Primary Election Day — June 23 🗳️

Education Support Professionals—your voice matters! Today is your chance to support students and schools you serve every day.

✅ Make a plan to vote
✅ Encourage your coworkers to participate

⚠️ Reminder: It’s too late to mail your ballot—please return it to an official ballot drop box today.

Let’s stand up for our schools and our professions by electing public education friendly candidates. Every vote counts!

🔧 Happy National HVAC Tech Day! 🔧

Today, the Utah School Employees Association (USEA) proudly celebrates the skilled HVAC technicians who help keep our schools safe, comfortable, and ready for learning all year long.

From sweltering summer days to freezing winter mornings, HVAC professionals work behind the scenes to ensure students, educators, and staff have healthy and reliable indoor environments. Their expertise protects air quality, maintains critical systems, and keeps classrooms functioning — no matter the weather outside.

As part of the education support professionals family, HVAC technicians play a vital role in student success. Their dedication often goes unseen, but never goes unnoticed.

👏 Join us in thanking Utah’s HVAC technicians for their hard work, problem solving skills, and commitment to our schools and communities.

💙 Happy Father’s Day from the Utah School Employees Association! 💙

Today, we celebrate the fathers and father figures who are ESPs and make a difference in our schools every single day.

From bus drivers and custodians to paraprofessionals, nutrition workers, office staff, and beyond—you are the heartbeat of our schools. Many of you not only care for your own families at home, but also help support, guide, and uplift students like they are your own.

Your hard work, compassion and dedication do not go unnoticed. You create safe, welcoming environments and play a critical role in student success across Utah.

👔 📚 Today, we honor all that you do—for your families, your students, and your communities.

Happy Fathers Day to our incredible ESP dads! 💙

Happy Summer Solstice! 🌞 Today marks the longest day of the year and the official start of summer—a perfect moment to pause, soak up the sunshine, and celebrate all you’ve accomplished this past school year.

To Utahs amazing ESPs: your dedication has made a lasting difference in the lives of students across our state. 💙 As the sun shines a little longer today, we hope it’s a reminder that you’ve earned time to relax.

Whether you’re exploring the outdoors, spending time with loved ones, or simply enjoying a quieter pace, here’s to a bright and restorative summer ahead. 😎

🇺🇸 ✨ HONORING JUNETEENTH ✨ 🇺🇸
June 19th—Freedom Day

The Utah School Employees Association proudly joins in recognizing Juneteenth, a powerful day marking the end of slavery in the United States on June 19, 1865.

🖤❤️🩷💛
📚 Why it matters:
Juneteenth is not just history—it’s a call to action. As school employees, we help shape the future by creating spaces where every student belongs, feels valued, and can thrive.

🌟 Today we reflect and celebrate:
📖 The importance of teaching honest, inclusive history
🤝 Our shared responsibility to build equitable schools and communities
✊ The resilience and contributions of Black Americans

💡 Moving forward together:
Let’s continue uplifting one another, fostering understanding, and ensuring that education is a place of opportunity for all.

❤️ Freedom. Education. Unity. ❤️

🚨 PROTECT YOUR UNION MEMBERSHIP 🚨

Our union is more than just membership—it’s our collective voice. Together, we stand up for what matters most: our students, our schools, and the future of education.

✅ Because we stood united, we’ve already won real improvements—like pay raises and protected planning time that makes a difference in our daily lives.

But here’s the reality…
Not everyone wants us to succeed. Anti-education politicians see our strength as a threat and are working to silence our voices—even targeting how we pay our dues by eliminating automatic payroll deductions.

💡 We can fight back—together.
By switching your payment method to AutoPay, you help ensure our union stays strong, protected, and ready to advocate for: 📚 Better learning conditions for our students
🧑‍🏫 Stronger working conditions for ESPs
✊ A united voice that cannot be ignored

👉 Take action today. Protect your membership. Protect our future.

https://edues.nea.org/eDues/righthere.jsp?state=UES

NEA eDues

The Trump administration is moving the Office for Civil Rights and the programs that support students with disabilities and their families out of the Department of Education.

This unprecedented political move would mean unqualified people leading some of the nation’s most crucial education programs—and the consequences for our students could be serious. Our students deserve better. Join us virtually to learn more and take action.

🔗 RSVP in the comments.

🚨 TONIGHT at 7 PM! 🚨

It’s time to turn your vision into action.

Join USEA’s Learn-2-Lead webinar and learn how to build a strategic plan that sets your local up for success.

✅ Practical
✅ Actionable
✅ Designed for YOU

⏰ Starts at 7:00 PM — don’t miss out!

👉 Join us by registering here: https://www.useautah.org/forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=A3sXrND0iEKpp9C9dcc9TSt7KeFfoFVGne2GJk17_UtUMjc2TzhSRkdHNERHSjlRQVIxU1RDRFg4Ri4u&route=shorturl