UFT Election Season is Upon Us, Apparently – DA Minutes 5-22-2024
Summary/Analysis: We’re back in election season, apparently, so expect a Unity show from here on out. After hearing one of the longest president’s reports all year, something often done to monopolize time and keep non-Unity business to a minimum, we heard UFT Welfare Fund Director, Geof Sorkin,
Why the UFT endorsed an architect of Tier 6 – UFT Executive Board Minutes 5/20/24
Summary/Analysis: Two NAC members—myself included—and one MORE member spoke out against the UFT’s apparent endorsement of Micah Lasher, a former Bloomberg operative and charter champion who Bloomberg himself lauded as an architect of Tier 6. I wrote an article about this in greater depth here.
The UFT has an Endorsement Problem
The UFT has a major endorsement problem. In the past, I’ve written recollections and critiques of the usual process. In City elections, small, appointed groups of UFT members/staffers speak to the candidates and select one (sometimes two) to endorse. Later, the Executive Board rubber stamps these
UFT Town Hall Minutes 5/17/24
Minutes taken by an anonymous NAC member today. Thank you to that member. I’m too busy with the TRS election–which strangely wasn’t discussed tonight, despite many in opposition assuming that was the reason for the townhall’s timing today in the first place–to write my
Top 3 Reasons to Vote for Ben Morgenroth in the TRS Election this Wednesday, May 8.
Ballots will be sent digitally to our DOE emails on Wednesday, May 8. Make sure to check your accounts – and to vote for Ben Morgenroth.
What’s going on with the TRS Election? – UFT Executive Board Minutes – 5/6/2024
Summary/analysis: The meeting opened with Roberta giving an impassioned theatric performance about the flaws of commercialized healthcare and the need for the New York Health Act. There’s no way my minutes did her performance justice. Norm Scott (ednotes) followed Roberta about the problems with o
DO YOU HAVE A UFT RETIREE IN YOUR LIFE? PROTECT THEIR HEALTHCARE, YOUR HEALTHCARE, AND OUR DIGNITY!
In what is literally a life or death situation, all UFT Retirees need to vote for the slate RETIREE ADVOCATE in the upcoming Retired Teachers Chapter Election. In a shocking and unforgivable betrayal, Michael Mulgrew and Eric Adams conspire to place all municipal retirees into a trashbag,
On May 8, YOU decide who represents UFT Members on the pension board. I hope you choose Ben.
This May, everyday UFT members have the rare chance to make a choice for themselves. Most of the time, decision-making in our union is executed behind closed doors by a handful of leaders. Some of those leaders, at least, are elected, albeit barely, in elections that intentionally limit exposure of
Call to Action: Our ‘Get Out The Vote’ homework for upcoming UFT & TRS elections
Help us GET OUT THE VOTE for: Ben Morgenroth for TRS Pension Trustee, Fix Para Pay Slate for Para Chapter Election and Retiree Advocate for Retired Teachers Chapter (RTC) We’ve seen way too many cuts to our healthcare and pension, and wages that lag behind inflation. Each one o