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
Looking Back almost 20 years. How to Organize and Mobilize for a Contract Fight
Attending my second in-person UFT Executive Board on Monday, September 20 made me realize how much I miss being a member of that body and how much things haven’t changed. When the elected high school Exec. Bd. members presented their resolution (see the New Action report on the Exec Bd. That night
Substitute Rights, Healthcare, Buses, 6th Classes, and a No to Action Committee – UFT Executive Board, 9/19/2022
Open Mic: Crystal Mendez Covington: Occupational therapist who has a child who is supposed to receive bussing. Matron has been great. Son has not been picked up. The offer is he is only being picked up at very odd hours – hours after school day begins. Having to take time off to bring him to [&hel
New Action Message to UFT Chapter Leaders (September, 2022)
Dear UFT Chapter Leader, The New Action/ UFT caucus welcomes all Chapter Leaders to the 2022 school year. New Action/ UFT, as a member of the United For Change coalition received 42% of the Active teacher vote and 34% of the Retiree vote in the recently concluded spring UFT election. United For Chan
Healthcare Changes and Class Size Reductions – UFT Executive Board Minutes, 9-12-2022
UFT Executive Board Minutes, 9-12-2022 (Unedited). LeRoy: Welcomes all new members of the executive board following the election. Looks forward to working with all of us. Moment of silence and remembrance for: Florence Vidal and Sherry Bailey Vincent Gaglione: Florence Vidal was a para in District 6
On Budgets
This summer, news of dramatic decreases in funding to the majority of NYC public schools shook the city. A series of protests, calls to action, and a fascinating lawsuit worked to bring Adams’ budget decrease into the public spotlight. And, as of today, that lawsuit has apparently succeeded in all
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