We can now finally see the education part of the Memorandum of Agreement. All I can say is that it is difficult and convoluted reading and I am outraged over the weakening of tenure for Absent Teacher Reserve. I truly am in fear for my job as my school will close in June so I will soon be an ATR.
ReplyDeleteWhat a scam. 10 weeks pay for severance, and that's for a max teacher. 6 weeks if you 14 years.
2 file letters in 2 years for an ATR equals firing. the cobntarct reads very different from what Mulgrew said. Contract says "problematic." What does that mean? And successive means any time over 2 school years. That could be any type of nonsense.
As an ATR in D79, as well as many others elsewhere:
ReplyDeleteLawsuit time.
Yes, this is more than ridiculous. The language is terrible. Problematic? Huh? career over...
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ReplyDeleteI spent 5 minutes looking at the MOA. It does not appear that the July 1, 2014 retirement option with all retroactive pay is included in the agreement. It is fiction.
If an Atr accepts the severance package, are they still subjected to the .27%?pension reduction penalty?
ReplyDeleteThe financials aren't in this 6:18 pm.
ReplyDeleteAm getting messages we may be making contributions to health care of up to 2% of salary. This would apply to anyone along over 60k. It starts at 30-40k at 0.5%. This directly contradicts things we've been hearing.
ReplyDeleteHarris Lirtzman on the big lie:
Am getting messages that Point 4 of a highly technical summary of the proposed changes to the municipal health care plan included in the proposed UFT contract and approved yesterday by the Municipal Labor Council appears to require that an RFP be issuedon July 1 for new plans to be implemented on July 1, 2015 (Michael Bloomberg had planned to issue such an RFP but the plan was halted after the Municipal Labor Council got a court ruling overturning plans to release it) and that Point 10 allows for employee contributions to health care coverage starting at .5% of salary for members earning between $30,000 and $40,000, 1% of salary between $40,000 and $50,000, 1.5% of salary between $50,000 and $60,000 and 2% of salary above $60,000.
If any of this is true (and the paper is in many peoples' hands right now) and any of it is actually put into effect it constitutes a direct and bad faith representation by our leadership about what this contract settlement really includes
A union is only as strong as it's weakest link. If ATR's are treated under a different set of rules they are the weakest link. ATR's need and deserve ALL THE PROTECTIONS that regularly assigned teachers have. Lastly, if it is true that teachers might be paying 2% of their salary into healthcare, then this contract is the biggest piece of sh*t ever!
ReplyDeleteWow, and per session went up 84 cents in 6 years.
ReplyDeleteGot an idea:Create panic and fear before the details and now that they are out, find something else to whine about.
ReplyDeleteFound the salaries posted here on chalkbeat.org
ReplyDeletehttp://ny.chalkbeat.org/2014/05/06/uft-posts-teacher-salaries-for-2009-2018-contract/
Salary Charts are out on UFT site. Looks good!
ReplyDeleteIs there anything we can do to inform teahers??? Protests, rallies,etc.
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