June 2009
OUR PRIORITY PROGRAM
- Begin a campaign to regain items lost in the 2005 contract – New Action opposed that contract
- Establish a realistic Action Plan to end administrative harassment and intimidation of teachers
- Establish a plan to deal with hundreds of abusive administrators, especially by principals coming out of the “Leadership Academy”
- Set up a city-wide program to effectively deal with disruptive students who prevent learning in our classrooms
- Reestablish seniority rights for educators excessed in the breakup of large schools
- Fight the ever-increasing trend to privatize school services, turn our schools into charter schools, and nullify our contract
- Work to build strong chapters and activate the membership
- Safeguard all health and pension benefits currently enjoyed by our members
- Lower class size in all divisions
- Safeguard the most vulnerable members of our union-probationaries, who have virtually no protection
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