NEW ACTION SAYS “ISN’T IT TIME FOR THE UFT TO FULLY DIVEST OUR PENSION MONIES FROM GUN MANUFACTURORS OF ASSAULT WEAPONS”
As the “Day to March for Our Lives” rapidly approaches and our UFT has called on members to join in the national march against gun violence in NYC, New Action can’t help but notice a glaring contradiction regarding our union’s policy. In 2013 five members of the UFT Executive Board co-author
Do delegates on phones deserve rights? – Notes on the June, 2022 UFT Delegate Assembly
At the June 8th DA (2022), Unity made clear their intent to disenfranchise non-Unity voters in perpetuity. Let’s look at the tactics, skipping over the long President’s report and his not calling on UFC for a moment. Wasting time during the New Resolutions Period. We only get 10 minutes
6/6/2022 UFT Executive Board Minutes – Class Sizes, Gun Control, and Literacy
LeRoy Barr: Greets members. Starting off with approval of minutes. All approved. Events coming up: Wednesday, 6/8/2022 is the last DA. The following Executive Board meeting is the last Executive Board, which is an executive session. Tomorrow, 6/7/2022 is the Albert Shanker Award Ceremony. If you can
Mitigating MOSL Madness
Linking student test scores to teacher evaluations has always been a mistake. Good teachers can end up under legalized micromanagement known as a Teacher Improvement Plan (TIP) because of a quirk in a formula, input issues, systematic inequities in the system, or simply a bad test day. A couple of y