UFT Executive Board Minutes, 1/22/2024
Summary/Analysis: Mulgrew wasn’t here tonight. Several speakers mentioned questionable implementations of DOE contracts: PDs that should be remote being in-person, teachers not sure how to fight abusive administration, and questions over excessive scheduling during Regents Week. The question o
Tier 6 Members are Losing Millions to Subsidize Tier 4 – UFT Executive Board Meeting, 12-4, 2023
Summary/Analysis: For the rest, read my unofficial minutes: Open Mic: Norm Scott: A number of issues that the UFT has let us down. Healthcare. We hear the word choice – somehow we don’t have the choice because of lawsuits. But choice with a price. The choice you can have is you stay in Medicare
Budget Cuts, Healthcare Cuts: UFT Executive Board Meeting – 11/20/2023
Summary: This was a quick meeting or a long meeting, depending on how you look at it. Mulgrew wasn’t here; nor was Barr, so Mike Sill ran the show. The main subject was budget cuts. As we know, the Mayor is slashing the DOE’s budget by more than half a billion dollars. That is dangerous [&hellip
Do As I Say – Not as I do: UFT Executive Board Meeting Minutes, 10-2-2023
Today’s executive board meeting had many themes. In the end, though, I realized that perhaps the best theme of the night was ‘do as I say, not as I do.’ We heard about resolutions to fix what’s wrong with the City opening school during life threatening storms, without specifying how the unio
Extra Parent Outreach Time? UFT Executive Board Minutes – 9/18/2023
Summary/Analysis: The UFT’s second executive board of the year was strangely eventful for one which followed just 7 days after the opener. (Usually, we wait 2-3 weeks between sessions). Some highlights with analysis: Unofficial Executive Board Minutes Follow – mostly unedited. Open Mic: Kate Con
Budget Cuts, Migrants, and Air Conditioners – UFT Executive Board Meeting , 9/11/2023
Summary/Analysis: There were two major topics at tonight’s executive board meeting: the demonization of migrants to justify unnecessary budget cuts and the terrible state of air conditioning made all too obvious during last week’s heat wave. Mary Vacarro pointed out that much of the demonization
A Tentative Agreement without an MOA- 6-13-2023 Executive Board Meeting
Immediately following the 500-member negotiating committee meeting, the Executive Board met at 3:38, with just over 30 minutes to spare before the DA, to go over a contract which had not been made available to us in advance and decide whether to bring it to a vote at the DA. LeRoy Barr motivates res
UFT Leadership Says No to Strike Readiness; Adds Symbolic Reso to Fight for Lost Calendar – UFT Executive Board Notes, 6-12-2023
Note: Most of tonight’s executive board meeting was an executive session, as is customary for the final executive board meeting of the year. Therefore, I have only reported on that business which was conducted when we were out of session. Summary: In tonight’s executive board meeting, the last s
On Contract and Democracy – UFT Executive Board Minutes, 6-5-2023
Summary/Analysis: Informal Notes Follow Mike Sill: filling in for LeRoy Bar. Open Mic Karen Miller: 2nd grade ICT gen-ed teacher at PS15 in D1. June, with everything going on wanted to reflect and share on some of the successes that go on in the classroom, and things that have been great at least in
UFT Members – Why is UFT Leadership Misleading us on Contract? – Executive Board Minutes, 5-22-2023
Quick summary/analysis: Tonight, UFT leadership disappointed many rank-and-file attendees when it came to contract. UFT leadership has been misleading us about something big, effectively lying (at least organizationally), and making us ask ‘why?’ and ‘what else isn’t being sh