UFT Executive Board Minutes, 10/21/2024
Summary/Analysis For more updates and more specifics, see the unofficial minutes follow. Minutes approved (see appendix). President’s report: Mulgrew: Thanks Servia Silva and all they do on Strides. CL meeting, thanks those who put together. Great energy at both events. Every couple of years we ch
If the UFT is against MAP, what are we doing about it? – UFT Exec Board Minutes and Analysis 10-7-2024
Summary and Analysis: Unofficial minutes follow. Moment of silence for Oct. 7 Open Mic Name left out for privacy: daughter going through something heavy, explain after – thanks to Rashad. Secure, big weight off shoulders. Daughter’s mother in law is on her death bed, has cancer. Fighting it, the
UFT Executive Board Minutes 9/9/24
Summary/Notes: Last night was the first UFT executive board of the 2024-2025 school year. This will be the last year that the current 102 executive board members, elected in the 2022 citywide UFT election, will serve their posts (except for those who are re-elected of course). A new election is to t
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.
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
UFT Executive Board Minutes 4/15/2024
Note: Thanks to Ed Calamia and Mike Shulman for taking notes, which were used to type up these minutes. Sill opens the meeting – Mulgrew is in Albany. Open Mic: Speaker 1: union supported me putting together programs for students when principal didn’t. Speaker 2: Dental plan (dentist dropped; th
UFT Financial Report: Executive Board Minutes 4/8/2024
Summary/Analysis Further analysis to come later – unofficial minutes below. Open mic: Speaker from elementary school in D1: dental insurance, myself and people in my school are paying out of pocket a lot in terms of care, can’t find dentist who takes insurance, or we get dropped because g
Will the UFT Fight for Paras to Have a Living Wage? UFT Executive Board Summary, Analysis, and Informal Minutes, 3/18/24
Summary/Analysis: There’s more to analyze, as always, but I’ll leave the rest to the reader. For the full informal minutes, including the official minutes from previous meetings as approved just after the open mic period, see below. Open Mic: Name intentionally redacted: teacher who made comment
UFT Leadership: No, we won’t rally to stop budget cuts. 2-26-2024 Executive Board Minutes
Summary and Analysis: Informal Minutes begin Meeting starts late because LeRoy Barr and Mike Sill are both stuck in an elevator. Carl Cambria: Approval of the minutes. President’s Report: Mulgrew not here. Janella Hinds: March is Women’s History Month. Majority of union is women. We are going to
Feb. 5, 2024 UFT Executive Board Summary/Analysis
Summary/Analysis: Informal Minutes start here: Open Mic Tracy Ruffin: CL on UWS in a co-located school, advocating against being re-sited to Ascension Catholic School on 108th Street. Another principal is adding curriculum, such as Russian, which has nothing to do with the community. Those extra pro