UNION BUSTING IN PUERTO RICO
New Action/UFT also urges all delegates to support the resolution on Puerto Rican teachers. We are proud to have initiated this resolution at the UFT Executive Board. Puerto Rican governor Fortuno has fired the entire leadership of the Puerto Rican Teachers Federation (FMPR). The teaching licenses o
WISCONSIN / NEW YORK CITY – SAME STRUGGLE / SAME FIGHT
Wisconsin proves that today we must have a strong union movement. Public employees, especially educators, are under attack all across our country. Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Florida are also suffering attacks on pensions, health care plans, seniority, and our long and hard fought right to coll
So Freedom’s Flame Can Burn
by Babui / Arjun Workers, disunited, to predators, are prey. They’re easiest to capture, when caught in disarray. Workers, when united, are forceful and escape The fate of those that singly dare to masters disobey. The snake engulfs the frog, the spotted leopard stalks the deer. Who’s pr
UFT Resolution on Wisconsin
… and other states. Passed Exec Board, bipartisan support, after several amendments. Will be presented at the March 9 Delegate Assembly (this Wednesday). Needs to be accompanied by concrete actions, such as those New Action has proposed. WHEREAS, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is scapegoating
The Long Road to Madison, Wisconsin
by Arjun Janah, Brooklyn, February 26th, 2011 In 1959, Wisconsin became the first U.S. state to grant municipal employees and teachers the right to bargain collectively for wages and benefits. In 1967, this was extended to all state employees. It is perhaps worth noting that the first law was pass
Statement to workers of Wisconsin from Egyptian Trade Union Leader
February 20th, 2011 3:45 PM ‘We Stand With You as You Stood With Us’: Statement to Workers of Wisconsin by Kamal Abbas of Egypt’s Centre for Trade Unions and Workers Services About Kamal Abbas and the Centre for Trade Unions and Workers Services: Kamal Abbas is General Coordinator
on Wisconsin
New Action initiated a bipartisan resolution in support of our colleagues and all public workers in Wisconsin, and linking their struggle to our own. As soon as it is approved, we will publish it. Without waiting for the resolution, we have proposed several specific steps for the UFT to consider tak
We are Wisconsin
Stand with Wisconsin. Governor Walker is putting forward legislation to end collective bargaining and the right to belong to a union. He must be stopped. Sign the petition. They will send you updates. The website is called “We are Wisconsin.”
Teachers’ right to organize and bargain threatened in Wisconsin
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Abusive Administrator – a Case Study in the Bronx
February 2011 NEW ACTION PRIORITY PROGRAM School Closings Abusive Administrator Contract Tenure and Teacher Evaluation Iris Blige, principal of Fordham HS for the Arts in the Bronx, will pay a fine of $7,500 for ruining the careers of good teachers, of developing new teachers (and of APs. She tried