New Action Meeting, Oct 9th
September 30, 2024 Dear New Action Member and Friends, Hold the date – Wednesday, October 9 – for our first general membership meeting of the newschool year. Our special guest will be Bennett Fischer, newly elected chair of the RetiredTeachers’ Chapter (RTC) of the UFT. Bennett will update
Curriculum, Healthcare, and Budget: 9-23-24-UFT Executive Board Summary, Analysis, and Minutes
For the full informal minutes, see below. No open mic speakers. Minutes: approved. Reports from Officers Mike Sill: Just talking to Nick Bacon about this – we jointly motivated a resolution about this. High School discontinuances. If you get discontinued in community school district, can change li
Welcome Back!
Dear UFT Chapter Leaders, Delegates, and Activists, Welcome back! The New Action/ UFT caucus is a network of union-proud organizers, and we want to make sure you know about us. Our caucus is the oldest progressive opposition caucus in the United Federation of Teachers – in existence since the mid
UFT Townhall 9/17/24 – Notes and Analysis
Major Takeaways from Tonight’s Town Hall (semi-minutes, unofficial, with some notes, mostly in italics):
UFT Executive Board Minutes 9/9/24
Summary/Notes: Last night was the first UFT executive board of the 2024-2025 school year. This will be the last year that the current 102 executive board members, elected in the 2022 citywide UFT election, will serve their posts (except for those who are re-elected of course). A new election is to t
FOLLOW THE MONEY: WHICH LEGISLATORS BENEFIT MOST FROM OUR UNIONS? – PART IV (COMPLETE LIST) – David Ginsberg
This is part four of a series on COPE by David Ginsberg and contains a complete list of where contributions go. To see parts one, two, and three, click the respective hyperlinks. Every two weeks, union dues and voluntary COPE donations come out of the paychecks of more than 100,000 active UFT member
Mulgrew Preps UFT Members to Expect Healthcare Premiums
This afternoon, Michael Mulgrew publicly withdrew his support for ongoing negotiations with the City RE changes to the healthcare provided to UFT members. You can read his letter to Harry Nespoli, chairman of the Municipal Labor Committee (MLC), which states as much, here. This letter was also linke
UFT Delegate Assembly, 6/12/2024, Unofficial Minutes:
Moment of silence for Marjorie Stamberg. Note: I was commuting by bike during the president’s report, so I listened in, but can only summarize what was said until about 6:00 PM. If another NAC member comes through, I will add more detailed notes later. Basically, Mulgrew tried to sum up the year b
UFT Executive Board holds series of low-turnout votes without debate.
This Monday, 6/10/24, is the final executive board meeting for the 2023-2024 school year. As is customary, that meeting is an executive session, which means it’s private (no minutes), though in the past we’ve gone out of session to do some orders of business (including a resolution last year). F
NAC/UFT Meeting Tonight 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