What MEA-Retired Is Doing

• Lobbying for retirement and public education issues

• Reading MEA Scholarship applications

• Attending and presenting at the NEA-Retired Leadership Conference

• Serving as delegates to the MEA Representative Assembly, NEA-Retired Annual Meeting and NEA Representative Assembly

• Serving as liaisons on the MEA Commissions, Committees and Task Forces

• Serving on MEA-Retired committees

• Applying for NEA grants

• Serving as mentors to Aspiring Educators of Michigan members.

• Writing letters, sending e-mails, making calls and meeting with Legislators.

• Serving as chapter officers.

• Visiting retired chapters

• Sending letters to retirees who have not completed paying their AIM obligation.

• Attending MEA-Retired and MEA Board meetings

• Attending MEA PAC meetings.

• Marching in many rallies all over the State.

• Serving on screening and recommending committees.

• Serving on the MPSERS Board.

• Writing, editing, publishing and mailing the Michigan Retirement Report to 38,000 members four times per year 

• Writing, editing and publishing the monthly MEA-Retired Tribune

• Answering phone calls and questions from retirees and pre-retired members

• Working the retired table at conferences throughout the year