NAC General Meeting, 6/4 at 5:30 PM
UFT members – New Action / UFT will have our last general meeting of the school year this Tuesday, June 4 at 5:30. We will discuss various updates, including healthcare and numerous UFT elections. If you are not already on our email list and want to be sent a zoom link, please sign up as [&hel
New Action /UFT Flyer, May DA
New Action/UFT …a caucus of the United Federation of Teachers 615 77th Street, Brooklyn, New York 11209 New Action.org Facebook: UFT/New Action Caucus May 2024  
UFT Election Season is Upon Us, Apparently – DA Minutes 5-22-2024
Summary/Analysis: We’re back in election season, apparently, so expect a Unity show from here on out. After hearing one of the longest president’s reports all year, something often done to monopolize time and keep non-Unity business to a minimum, we heard UFT Welfare Fund Director, Geof Sorkin,
Why the UFT endorsed an architect of Tier 6 – UFT Executive Board Minutes 5/20/24
Summary/Analysis: Two NAC members—myself included—and one MORE member spoke out against the UFT’s apparent endorsement of Micah Lasher, a former Bloomberg operative and charter champion who Bloomberg himself lauded as an architect of Tier 6. I wrote an article about this in greater depth here.
The UFT has an Endorsement Problem
The UFT has a major endorsement problem. In the past, I’ve written recollections and critiques of the usual process. In City elections, small, appointed groups of UFT members/staffers speak to the candidates and select one (sometimes two) to endorse. Later, the Executive Board rubber stamps these
UFT Town Hall Minutes 5/17/24
Minutes taken by an anonymous NAC member today. Thank you to that member. I’m too busy with the TRS election–which strangely wasn’t discussed tonight, despite many in opposition assuming that was the reason for the townhall’s timing today in the first place–to write my
Top 3 Reasons to Vote for Ben Morgenroth in the TRS Election this Wednesday, May 8.
Ballots will be sent digitally to our DOE emails on Wednesday, May 8. Make sure to check your accounts – and to vote for Ben Morgenroth.
What’s going on with the TRS Election? – UFT Executive Board Minutes – 5/6/2024
Summary/analysis: The meeting opened with Roberta giving an impassioned theatric performance about the flaws of commercialized healthcare and the need for the New York Health Act. There’s no way my minutes did her performance justice. Norm Scott (ednotes) followed Roberta about the problems with o
DO YOU HAVE A UFT RETIREE IN YOUR LIFE? PROTECT THEIR HEALTHCARE, YOUR HEALTHCARE, AND OUR DIGNITY!
In what is literally a life or death situation, all UFT Retirees need to vote for the slate RETIREE ADVOCATE in the upcoming Retired Teachers Chapter Election. In a shocking and unforgivable betrayal, Michael Mulgrew and Eric Adams conspire to place all municipal retirees into a trashbag,