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!!!!