UFT
President Michael Mulgrew has won his fourth term as the union’s president.
Mulgrew, the Unity Caucus candidate, received 38,591 votes, or 86.2 percent of
the votes cast, while Solidarity Caucus candidate Lydia Howrilka received 3,604
votes (8 percent) and Dermot Myrie the candidate of the MORE caucus, got 2,540
votes (5.6 percent).
Mulgrew's margin of victory was huge compared to 2016 when MORE ran with New Action and Solidarity only ran individual candidates however Mulgrew's vote totals actually went down slightly from 2016.2016 Mulgrew- 39,176
2019 Mulgrew-38,591
Mulgrew's totals dropped in spite of having former opposition leaders Arthur Goldstein and Mike Schirtzer now running on the Unity slate and having for the first time a massive get out the vote campaign that included numerous robo-calls to members reminding us to vote along with text messages and an annoying ad on the website that blocked everything. The ad told us to vote.
Opposition group MORE's vote totals fell off a cliff compared to 2016 when they ran with New Action.
2016 Jia Lee (MORE Presidential candidate)-10,743 votes
2019 Jia Lee (MORE Vice Pres Sped candidate)-2,700 votes
Meanwhile, Solidarity received some of the MORE support.
2016 Francsco Portelos (Solidarity Presidential candidate split votes only) 1455 votes
2019 Lydia Howrilka (Solidarity Presidential candidate) 3,604 votes
That is a fairly substantial increase for Solidarity which does not exactly have much of a presence in most schools. New Action took some of the opposition votes too but we don't know the NAC numbers yet since they did not run for officer positions and all we received was the officer totals. A few opposition voters went to Unity with Mike and Arthur but many others became part of the garbage can vote as they threw the ballot away. Hopefully, they recycled the paper.
Unity won the entire 102 seat Executive Board. There will be no representatives there that did not run with Unity.
We look forward to seeing how Lydia does as the leader of the opposition. She's the Shadow President.
Wow. 8% and you're shadow president. Impressive logic.
ReplyDelete5:33 ... The opposition teachers are aming the more active in elections and in the union. Yes..tripling your votes while all other candidates fell makes you the shadow president.
ReplyDeleteWhat is impressive for me is how you can try to spin that any other way.
Oh, wait, you must be a drone
Anon 533.... Jia? Is that you?
ReplyDeleteI thought you didn't read blogs.
Fuck Mulgrew and Fuck Unity.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it obvious James? No one really cares or listens to your old crusty ass!
ReplyDeleteGive me a break. Like you were a shadow HSVP over the past 3 years. When ICE was a new caucus competing with TJC and New Action we did better than Solidarity. What is interesting is that Unity only got 2100 votes in the high schools - about the same as in 2016. So they show no more strength - actually I am betting their real total is closer to their 1585 they got in 2013 and Arthur/Mike and others brought them up. Consider that Arthur's school alone has 200 HS teachers, most of whom went to MORE in 2016. Swap those votes into Unity this time. Solidarity had over 400 in high schools and New Action dropped to less than 200. MORE didn't run candidates. So while Unity may blast this as a 75% win for them in the HS that is a false flag.
ReplyDeleteGive me a break. Like you were a shadow HSVP over the past 3 years. When ICE was a new caucus competing with TJC and New Action we did better than Solidarity. What is interesting is that Unity only got 2100 votes in the high schools - about the same as in 2016. So they show no more strength - actually I am betting their real total is closer to their 1585 they got in 2013 and Arthur/Mike and others brought them up. Consider that Arthur's school alone has 200 HS teachers, most of whom went to MORE in 2016. Swap those votes into Unity this time. Solidarity had over 400 in high schools and New Action dropped to less than 200. MORE didn't run candidates. So while Unity may blast this as a 75% win for them in the HS that is a false flag.
ReplyDeleteIs there anywhere the full election result for the 750 seats is posted?
ReplyDeleteFrom Lydia:
ReplyDeleteI'm not UFT President. But UFT Solidarity is the #2 caucus in the UFT. The fight isn't done yet in this election and beyond. Looking forward to bringing a #strongerunion to you all on the street and in my classroom (sadly not from a cushy office in 52 Broadway).
Here is the real headline:
ReplyDeleteAbuse of teachers to continue. Michael Mulgrew reelected.
My logic for voting was "Anyone but Mulgrew". I hear teachers complain all the time, yet there was no doubt who was winning this election. Teachers in this system are hopeless, we will continue to get screwed and have nobody to blame but ourselves.
ReplyDeleteSolidarity is the main opposition. Deal with it.
ReplyDeleteWhen James was called shadow VP, he got more votes than his opponent from HS teachers. Mulgrew got over ten times as many votes as Lydia. The comparison is ridiculous. Sorry John G can't figure that out.Hope he isn't a math teacher.
ReplyDeleteShadow whatever is what they call the person who finished second in an election. It is rather common in politics.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to the schemers and sectarians in MORE: they took a once-viable coalition of opposition forces in the union, destroyed it, and strengthened Unity in the process.
ReplyDeleteBut I don't think they care much, since they have full control of the leftwing sandbox they helped MORE devolve into.
A lesson for DSA and the Left in general...
James, you're a joke. The only thing worst than Mulgrew is you. All of your politicking has gotten you nowhere as the votes show. Several teachers including myself hate
ReplyDeleteyou and will never support anything attached to your name.
Although I admit your blog is good for a laugh when I'm bored.
I wasn't running and did very little campaigning. Oh well, haters gonna hate.
ReplyDeleteJudging from what you write you've done nothing but.
ReplyDeleteUnlike the previous comment, I don't hate you James. But over time you have shown yourself to be petty and classless with your blogs. Very tabloid-esque. I'm guessing the anti Eterno energy partially stems from you publicly going after people on several occasions without all of the facts or just the complaints of a few voices who may using you through your blog for their own personal agendas with their admin. Eventually in many cases people find out that the situation is not as serious or accurate as you portray it to be.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, enjoy your spring break everybody.
Pissing off Ben Sherman or another principal butt kisser. You must e doing something right ICE.
ReplyDeleteCompared to Chaz and EdNotes, this blog is cautious on administration and even supports certain principals in public.
ReplyDeleteIf it is petty, classless and tabloid-esque, why do you read it and comment? Read the UFT site. They only write about one lousy principal after the entire NY press Corp exposed him. Taking political cheap shots here is strange.
ReplyDeleteTaking political cheap shots here is the coin of the realm.
ReplyDeleteWho knows? The Shadow knows! Go Lydia.
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