Why do UFT members make less than teachers in LA and Oakland?
During the course of UFT-Unity’s ‘yes vote’ campaign, we saw highly paid UFT staffers making well over $200,000 a year repeatedly tell us that we were wrong to factor inflation into pay increases. Some officers and staffers called our pleas to match wage increases with inflation &#
DESPICABLE ACTS AND ANTI-UNION BEHAVIOR
You would think this describes management or the actions of corporate actors or advocates of charters and vouchers. Today we have only have to look at our own union leadership in the UFT. We need only to look as far as what Michael Mulgrew and Unity have perpetrated on the OT/PT chapter to understan
Don’t Forget Our Probationary Teachers
Just recently many UFT retired members led by New Action joined with thousands of other retired members from other Unions to lead protests and support lawsuits to Protect our Healthcare. In the last week a New York City Supreme Court Judge ruled in favor of the NYC Organization of Municipal Retirees
Retirees Win! – For-Profit Mulgrewcare Plan Quashed Again
The NYC Organization of Public Service Retirees has officially won its lawsuit against the City, preventing Adams, Mulgrew, and the MLC from forcing medicare-eligible retirees off of GHI Seniorcare and onto a for-profit Medicare Advantage plan (MAP) run by Aetna. The decision is brief, essentially j
“The City Said No:” or How UFT Leadership ‘Negotiates’
Earlier this summer, our union membership ratified most of the contracts that we’d been negotiating with the City. As we all know, one bargaining unit voted no on theirs, and the response from UFT leadership was nothing short of disappointing. Put briefly, UFT/Unity delivered the ‘news’ that t
Mulgrew Overturns OT/PT ‘No’ Vote – Revote Scheduled This Month
This afternoon, UFT leadership decided that the OT/PT bargaining unit would be split up between those who voted no (OT/PTs) and those who voted yes (nurses, supervisors of OT/PTs, nurse supervisors, and audiologists). The subunits who already voted ‘yes’ will not get a revote. They will automati
A Union Finally Beats the Pattern.
This week, we learned that a municipal union finally beat the DC37 pattern – indeed, they beat it by a substantial margin – roughly double. Nurses working in NYC’s municipal hospitals have negotiated a contract that, with 37% pay increases over 5.5 years, puts the UFT’s unpensionable
The ‘Dis-Unity’ Tactic: How UFT Leadership Took a No-Vote and Used it to tear apart a Chapter for Political Gain
Ratification votes have consequences. Yet, in the UFT, those consequences aren’t what serious unionists might expect. In most unions–unions with functioning democracies–a decisive 2:1 no-vote by membership would send a clear mandate for union leaders to go back to the bargaining table. T
NAC Updates: Caucus Meeting on August 8th / UFC Letter of Support for OT/PTs
Summer is shaping up to be a busy time for our union/caucus, as strikes and strike threats erupt around the country, while major contract battles still take place at 52 Broadway. NAC will meet as a caucus on August 8th at 3:00 PM via Zoom. We will discuss a variety of issues, including healthcare, p
Mulgrew, respect the OT/PTs ‘NO’ vote and go back to the table!
Ratification votes have consequences. Yes means ‘contract approved’, and no means ‘back to the table’ – unless you’re Unity Caucus that is. Since the birth of collective bargaining in the UFT, contracts with the City have always been decided through a voting proce