Martin County Education Association

🎉 VICTORY FOR EDUCATORS IN MARTIN COUNTY! 🎉

Today, educators made their voices heard loud and clear:

✅ UNITY WON
✅ SOLIDARITY WON
✅ MCEA WON

Official Election Results:
🍎 MCEA: 437 votes (81.7%)
🍎 UTMC: 93 votes (17.4%)
🍎 Against Representation: 5 votes

Out of 1,128 eligible voters, the challenging organization received support from only 8.2% of the bargaining unit.

Despite months of attacks, misinformation, outside interference, and attempts to divide educators, Martin County educators overwhelmingly chose to stand together and stick with their union.

This victory belongs to:
✊ Our Building Reps
✊ Our worksite leaders
✊ Every member who made a call, sent a text, followed up on ballots, and stood proudly with MCEA

Most importantly, this victory belongs to the educators who refused to let outside groups define our future.

For over 50 years, MCEA has fought for educators, public education, and our students — and today, educators chose to continue that legacy.

We are stronger together.
We are united.
And we are just getting started.

Members,
Please check your emails.

Good evening MCEA members,

If you have not received your ballot, please reply to the email as soon as possible with the following information:

Your full name
Your mailing address

We must submit replacement ballot requests to PERC by tomorrow (4/21) , so your prompt response is critical.

Thank you for your immediate attention to this matter.

In Unity,

Kelly Coleman

Is everyone getting Kelly's emails on Sundays?
If not, let your rep know ASAP, or email [email protected]

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I just heard FEA is now 200-0 in PERC elections with an average yes vote of 95%! The Freedom Foundation (who is backing the United Teachers group) has spent millions in places like Miami and never got more than 10% of the vote.

Teachers don’t trust the Freedom Foundation and for good reason… they are not for teachers! MCEA is made up of teachers to support teachers. We have ALWAYS been there for our members (and non-members).

If every union member turned in their ballot with a YES vote for MCEA, not only would we win the election easily (since the majority of teachers are MCEA members), but we would also send a powerful message to those who don’t care about us that enough is enough and we aren’t going to be bullied. MCEA isn’t going away anytime soon, but in order to ensure that, you MUST VOTE YES for MCEA and tell all your colleagues on your campuses to do the same!

Solidarity now and solidarity forever! ✊

This is the organization behind the rival union.

Ballots arriving soon. Vote MCEA! With over fifty years of representing the teachers in Martin County, MCEA is your reliable source for negotiations and representation. A vote for MCEA is a vote for YOUR contract.

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McEA has created a new FB page! Kindly migrate over to “ MCEA Members Only”.

The MCEA has started a new page. Kindly migrate over to MCEA Members only!

As you get ready for Labor Day weekend, remember to thank a union.