new action priorities
- Pay raises in line with surrounding districts
- Maximum salary should be reached in 10 years like many other unions
- Reduce class size in every division
- Reduce caseloads of counselors, school psychologists, and other titles
- No agreement to place new hires into HMOs
- End Fair Student Funding/Return to Unit Costing to end discrimination/harassment of veteran teachers
- Fight the attacks on Chapter Leaders and chapter members
- Fight abusive principals and place abusers on a UFT Watch List/Send teams into these schools
- Reinstitute seniority transfers
- End ATR pool by placement in vacancies
- Work to end school segregation
- Work to increase staff diversity
- Restore the right to grieve letters in the file
- Allow members to challenge principal’s judgment on observation reports
- Remove the Danielson Framework and decouple test scores from evaluations. Reform the evaluation system to be teacher led.
- Set penalties for administrators who repeatedly violate class size provisions
- And NO MORE healthcare givebacks!!!!