Union leadership votes to disenfranchise high school executive board members – Executive Board Minutes – 10/24/2022
LeRoy: Welcomes. Remembering Barbara Meily, moment of silence. Open Mic: Alison Dimas: IC in division of early childhood. On Sep. 6 we received excessing notices. Attempts to get on excess markets was unsuccessful, we weren’t listed properly. We only ever received proper attention from UFT when we
Unpacking the October, 2022 Delegate Assembly
On October 12th, the UFT had its first DA of 2022. James Eterno at ICE-UFT has published detailed minutes, so I’ll focus on a few points of analysis. Protest Outside: People on the phone missed out on the biggest part of the DA – hundreds of retirees protesting the UFT and MLC’s in
IEPs (and finding time to write them)
As New York teachers well know, IEPs are the legal documents that justify and lay out services for students with disabilities. They’re necessary, no doubt about it. But as special education teachers, IEP Teachers, and various related service providers also well know, the paperwork involved in
UFT Members Take Note – It’s Not Looking Good for Healthcare
At the October 3rd, 2022 session of the UFT Executive Board, buried mostly at the end of an unusually long session with 5+ pages of unofficial minutes, we finally got a decent healthcare debate. Healthcare is now one of the major disagreements between the controlling caucus of our union (Unity) and
Healthcare, Healthcare, Healthcare – UFT Executive Board Minutes, 10/3/2022
Open Mic: Approval of Minutes: approved Special Order of Business: Election – complaints: new set of complaints, there will be a final third set. (One set was already voted on last year). Typically election complaints are usually investigated by the Secretary and UFT Counsel, so UFT employed