In the 1991 legislature MEA and MFT jointly introduced and lobbied to a successful conclusion a bill providing hiring preference for already employed teachers and classifieds should their school districts be annexed or consolidated. The consolidation of Clyde Park and Wilsall school districts into Shields Valley school district provoked this legislation. Earlier Feaver and McGarvey had personally competed with each other for the bargaining rights in Clyde Park. Clyde Park teachers chose MFT. But organizing did not provide them the protection MEA and MFT later secured in 1991 for school employees in future consolidations or annexations. Today Shields Valley is an MFPE local bargaining unit.