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Help us GET OUT THE VOTE for: Ben Morgenroth for TRS Pension Trustee, Fix Para Pay Slate for Para Chapter Election and Retiree Advocate for Retired Teachers Chapter (RTC) We’ve seen way too many cuts to our healthcare and pension, and wages that lag behind inflation. Each one of these races challenges Michael Mulgrew’s
Call to Action: Our ‘Get Out The Vote’ homework for upcoming UFT & TRS elections
Help us GET OUT THE VOTE for: Ben Morgenroth for TRS Pension Trustee, Fix Para Pay Slate for Para Chapter Election and Retiree Advocate for Retired Teachers Chapter (RTC) We’ve seen way too many cuts to our healthcare and pension, and wages that lag behind inflation. Each one o
UFT Leadership Squashes Motion to Improve Our Dental Care – DA Minutes 4-17-2024
Analysis: At last night’s DA, there was one moment of note, as far as I’m concerned. Peter Lamphere introduced a resolution in the new motions period. In that time, he successfully made the argument that our dental reimbursement rates are woefully inadequate when compared to those of other munic
UFT Executive Board Minutes 4/15/2024
Note: Thanks to Ed Calamia and Mike Shulman for taking notes, which were used to type up these minutes. Sill opens the meeting – Mulgrew is in Albany. Open Mic: Speaker 1: union supported me putting together programs for students when principal didn’t. Speaker 2: Dental plan (dentist dropped; th
VOTING FOR YOUR UFT REPS: WHAT YOU SHOULD LOOK FOR
Every three years, UFT members have the opportunity to vote for the Chapter Leader (CL) and delegates of their respective schools. It is easy to vote for a friendly colleague or to simply go along with the majority, but basing your vote on shallow virtues without putting real thought into your selec
UFT Financial Report: Executive Board Minutes 4/8/2024
Summary/Analysis Further analysis to come later – unofficial minutes below. Open mic: Speaker from elementary school in D1: dental insurance, myself and people in my school are paying out of pocket a lot in terms of care, can’t find dentist who takes insurance, or we get dropped because g
UFT Leadership to Paras: ‘you already have it pretty good – don’t usurp our bargaining authority by fighting for a living wage!’ – DA Summary/Minutes/Analysis, 3/20/24
Summary/Analysis: The headline from tonight comes from the very end of the meeting – Unity’s bizarre handling of the paraprofessional resolution. Readers may remember that I motivated Migda Rodriguez, Marie Wausnok, and Daniel Alicea’s resolution at executive board on Monday, only to see i
Will the UFT Fight for Paras to Have a Living Wage? UFT Executive Board Summary, Analysis, and Informal Minutes, 3/18/24
Summary/Analysis: There’s more to analyze, as always, but I’ll leave the rest to the reader. For the full informal minutes, including the official minutes from previous meetings as approved just after the open mic period, see below. Open Mic: Name intentionally redacted: teacher who made comment
What are we actually doing to fix Tier 6?
For months now, UFT members have been told that ‘Tier 6 will be fixed,’ and that for UFT, NYSUT, or the AFL-CIO to get it fixed, we’d need to donate to COPE. In a longer piece, I wrote about this general strategy, which unfortunately had all the fixings of an advertisement to get members to [&
Register for NAC/UFT’s General Meeting This Tuesday, 3/12/2024 at 5:30 PM
JOIN US TUESDAY, 03.12.24 AT 5:30 PM – New Action-UFT members and supporters, our next general meeting will take place, Tuesday, March 12, 2024 at 5:30 PM. We will discuss a number of our initiatives on healthcare, pension, chapter elections, abusive administration, and more. Join us. We w
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