2023-2024 Calendar ‘Fixed’ – Regardless of How You Vote on the Contract
It’s just about time for vacation. And teachers and students no longer need to dread an arbitrarily extended school year when they return. That’s because, today, sources from the DOE and UFT announced positive changes to the 2023-2024 calendar. Not to mention, in an unprecedented move, the City
A Different Kind of ‘Pay cut:’ When Student/Employee Data is Compromised
On Friday, reports surfaced that the data of thousands of NYCDOE students and employees was compromised, after a breach that also affected several companies and governmental agencies. In some cases, the information hacked included sensitive identifiers like social security numbers. We don’t know w
Rushed UFT Contract Ratification Process Leads to Integrity Questions
This blog predicted months ago that Mulgrew would try to rush a contract ratification vote. “If we rush a bad contract, after all, we can get limited money quick. Summer is around the corner –a tempting time to dangle a few bucks in front of teachers and say ‘sure, we didn’t fix any working
UFC Townhall on Contract Tonight (6/21) at 7:30 PM
Join the UFT’s High School Executive Board, which includes members affiliated with New Action/UFT, Solidarity, MORE, and ICE-UFT, at 7:30 PM for a panel on why all of our caucuses agree/concur: voting no gets us a better deal. Register here.
New Action/UFT Suggests Voting No on the 2022-2027 Tentative Agreement
New Action Caucus has gone over the good, bad, and middling parts of the 2022-2027 tentative UFT agreement. Ultimately, we agreed that this is a contract members would be better off voting ‘no’ on. Largely, our decision came down to sub-inflation wage ‘increases,’ including a disappoin
New Action Contract Meeting Tonight at 5:30 PM
New Action Caucus will meet today at 5:30 PM to discuss the 2022-2027 tentative agreement. Members who have not yet received an invitation should first make sure they’re signed up, then reach out to Nick Bacon. Reading List:
UFT Contract 2022-2027: Debunking Unity’s ‘Yes Vote’ Propaganda
As can be expected in any arbitrarily rushed UFT contract ratification process, union staffers have gone into full fledged ‘yes vote’ mode, issuing some reasoned arguments, but mostly propaganda, as to why members should approve the 2022-2027 contract. In this piece, I’ll debunk some of the mo
UFT Contract Analysis: Zeroing in on Special Education. What went wrong? And what does that mean for the rest of the agreement?
If there’s any section of the contract that can help us understand if the UFT was successful in negotiations, it’s special education. The reason here is simple. It is one of the few places where UFT had some obvious leverage during this round of bargaining. Because of the many public failings ar
UFT Contract PSA: Beware of Distracting ‘Perks’
Yesterday, I analyzed most of the UFT’s new tentative agreement with the City, and was able to determine that this contract is not a deal that provides UFT members with what we deserve. Sure, there’s a lot of noise about nice bells and whistles like the ability to potentially work from h
UFT Tentative Agreement Online (Mostly) – Not as Rosy as Mulgrew’s Presentations
This morning, I published a piece analyzing the tentative agreement based solely on the promotional materials put out by Michael Mulgrew. This afternoon, the MOA itself was posted, along with some appendices. At one point there was a message that appendices were still being added. It’s unclear