Do As I Say – Not as I do: UFT Executive Board Meeting Minutes, 10-2-2023
Today’s executive board meeting had many themes. In the end, though, I realized that perhaps the best theme of the night was ‘do as I say, not as I do.’ We heard about resolutions to fix what’s wrong with the City opening school during life threatening storms, without specifying how the unio
New Action General Meeting with Guest, Marianne Pizzitola
New Action will have our first general meeting of 2023-2024 on September 27 at 5:30 PM. Marianne Pizzitola will be our special guest to discuss the healthcare fight. The following week, we will begin holding our subcommittees (also at 5:30 PM). Feel free to join as many or as few as you’d
New Action to Run Slate in Spring UFT Elections
Priority Issues Fight administrative abuse – Defend Chapter Leaders, Probationers, and ATRs Last year NEW ACTION and MORE brought Chapter Leader after Chapter Leader up to UFT Executive Board meetings to speak up against the 200 or so Principals and Administrators who are making life hell for
NEW ACTION AND MORE SWEEP ALL SEVEN HIGH SCHOOL EXECUTIVE BOARD SEATS
NEW ACTION AND MORE SWEEP ALL SEVEN HIGH SCHOOL EXECUTIVE BOARD SEATS The announcement on May 27, 2016 that Jia Lee, New Action/MORE presidential candidate won 21% of the citywide vote was a terrific victory, especially since this was her first run for the position. Michael Mulgrew won with a tota
Where we agree, where we disagree
From New Action’s May 2016 Leaflet Where We Agree We agree that 200 lawyers at Tweed is about 200 too many. But we need leadership that tells this to Fariña, sits down, and gets something done. We agree that the current funding formula for schools makes no sense, that principals are forced to
Why I can no longer support Mulgrew / Unity
By Gregory Di Stefano 33 year teacher, 46 year UFT member The last decade has seen a serious deterioration of UFT members’ rights such as: not being able to grieve unfair observations, inaccurate letters in the file, abuse by some incompetent and corrupt principals, the unfair treatment of p
Get Test Scores Out of Teacher Evaluation
New Action urges: no test scores in teacher evaluation. Unity responds by not letting members vote. At the January 11, 2016 UFT Executive Board meeting, New Action urged opposition to the use of test scores to evaluate teachers, and urged that we use the four year moratorium to lobby for a change in
New Action explains: We can no longer run with Mulgrew/Unity
Since the early 1980’s, New Action/UFT was the main opposition to Unity Caucus. In 1985, New Action leader, Michael Shulman, won the UFT High School Vice-Presidency, and served until 1987. New Action continued in opposition until early 2004. Perhaps our greatest achievement was making pay parity t
Overmanaged, Underappreciated, Stonewalled and Harassed
New Action/UFT congratulates the schools and Chapter Leaders working with collaborative, member friendly principals. Unfortunately, Chancellor Farina’s call to principals to work collaboratively with their staff is not being followed at many schools. At the January 2016 Delegate Assembly a Chapter
Join the MORE/New Action Campaign:
Combat Abusive Administrators End “Drive By” and “Test Score” Teacher Evaluation Protect ATRs and Probationers Fight for Union Democracy Let’s start mobilizing for the next contract Support Jia Lee, Opt Out Leader, for UFT President To join the campaign, or to to distribute New Action lite