While NYC has an agreement on delaying the start of the school year for a few days that will be rubber stamped, if voted on at all, by the UFT Delegate Assembly this afternoon, the United Teachers of Los Angeles entire membership voted on their remote agreement.
Please note I have to take my kids out this afternoon for checkups so more than likely no live blogging from today's DA. If someone wants to help with some DA notes, it would be greatly appreciated.
From UTLA
UTLA members voted overwhelmingly to ratify the tentative agreement on crisis distance learning, with 95% of the 15,726 ballots cast approving of the TA. Voting was conducted by Integrity Voting Systems over three days, from August 12 to 14.
The agreement addresses crisis distance learning in LAUSD from August 3 to the end of 2020, or until students physically return to schools for regular instruction. Under the provisions, no UTLA member is required to physically return to work at an LAUSD building until schools are physically reopened for all students. The agreement creates a structured school day with some flexibility and pedagogical discretion, and a Smart Start to the school year with training time for educators and students on technology and remote learning.
For those interested, read the UTLA Agreement. Now compare and contrast that with what the NYC DOE with UFT agreement put out last week. Be honest now, which union would you rather belong to?
29 comments:
Is there any way to hear the DA if not a CL or delegate?
James, after all this, and again being screwed, how do you justify not opting out? Im serious. Please explain. We are being sent to die. AGAIN.
Mulgrew said "Most aggressive." No, most aggressive would would fully remote and safe teaching.
Feel better?
Mayor Bill de Blasio
I couldn’t have more confidence in the teachers, staff and leadership at
@NYCSchools
. They care deeply about our kids, and it shows.
The revised opening schedule we announced is an inspiring act of unity that will keep EVERYONE in our schools community safe.
http://nycdoenuts.blogspot.com/2020/09/uftdoe-deal-reached-yesterday-around.html?m=1
Read that. We were completely backstabbed. Mulgrew doesn't care about us.
Because a lot of teachers I know (myself included) feel like we were just sold out for a little more planning time. We don’t feel safer, there is still no mandatory testing and we have to return to unsafe buildings in a week. This is not a victory.
Stop the presses! Other unions hold membership votes?!? That's crazy-talk!
I want a union that assumes all members signed a "loyalty" pledge and does whatever it wants. Unity for Life!
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If you Opt Out...
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Then you don't "vote" on the few things we do vote on
Then your school may lose a delegate position and vote which is based upon the number of UFT members at your school.
Then you don't get to complain to the UFT DRs or call them complaining about bad policies.
Then you don't get to participate in Consultative Committee meetings (the only thing that actually can make changes happen).
If you Opt Out - then your voice doesn't matter at all.
What we need is to hold our CLs and delegates responsible for their votes. Start by asking if your school representatives (CLs and Delegates) have signed a unity "loyalty" pledge. If so vote them out.
During the next UFT election vote against Unity and put an end to their "loyalty" pledge.
Oh wait, since you opt'd out you don't get to vote... so instead just complain to the wind.
They said if teachers refuse testing, they get put on unpaid leave. If students refuse, nothing happens. Sounds like the discipline code. Keep paying dues.
7 days paid from spring break?
All-remote is the only safe, practicable, sane, just option in a pandemic world without good options. The sellout today by
@UFT — fully endorsing @NYCMayor’s back-to-school lunacy — essentially kills this option. Dead.
Sounds like all they did was delay d-day.
2:23 PM I read it, and I agree with you. I never wanted to strike in the first place. I wanted to watch events unfold as the students returned on the 10th. Then Mulgrew starts running his mouth about a strike. Who really knew what the goal of that strike was? He never touched base with teachers before going on in the news about a strike.
Now, I think Mulgrew's real constituents are the CSA, the chancellor, and the mayor. He did a fantastic job of buying all of them more time to hash everything out because let's be realistic, they couldn't have pulled off opening for blended learning by the 10th.
You can't trust these people cuomo was kille in the elderly and not cleaning the subways for 2 months while DE blasio in March and April were telling people it's OK to go out and eat in the city these guys are clueless it's all about the game of politics and not about the children or the teachers
I did not know if we were going to get to this moment..... (hmmm)
We have the most aggressive safeguards of any school system in this country.
(going fully remote would be more aggressive.)
Lies about everything.
Mulgrew saying if PPE isn’t in place we won’t open— so if PPE isn’t in place on sept 8 are staff still going in??
It seems “shutting schools down” is still on the table, and we can “do what has to be done” so please explain WHY you made a deal with the Mayor before you knew that UFT’s demands were met?
Mulgrew now saying members have communicated they don’t want to strike. Hey NYC
@UFT
members: did he ask for your opinion? Bc we had 1000 people on our strike prep meeting on Saturday.
District 75 thinks the entire DOE orbits them. I get they work longer but they and their students are not the majority of the teaching staff. I hope their PPE needs are met but there's a whole system to consider
What happens when a kid doesn't have or a paret refuses to give a permission slip? Isolation room?
Let’s compare to the movie Braveheart.
Doe=England
Longshanks= Deblasio
Mulgrew = Robert the Bruce except at least the Bruce finally learned, Mulgrew will never.
UFT exec board = Scottish nobles
Teachers = the Scottish people
William Wallace = ??????????
How can students refuse testing but teachers get removed and are unpaid?
How are all staff members fitting in a small PD room?
What the fuck are we doing for 9 PD days? Except getting sick.
What is also being lost in this entire mess is the fact that DOE has not released the calendar.
Last spring we were made to work Spring break and Jewish Holidays. Still waiting for some
form of compensation for that.
In this agreement, we are "given" 4 "school days" above our 2 PD days to prep. There is
no doubt those 4 days will be taken back down the road in some fashion.
Also, Friday, 9/18 (one of remote transition days) is the beginning of Rosh Hashanah...
Because paying dues and having a voice is still NOT having a voice.
Monthly random testing?
Remember what happened between mid February and mid March? That was one month. The whole country was seeded.
UFT chapter leaders had to vote on the deal without seeing their school’s safety reports and without talking to their fellow teachers.
"Black Lives Matter" is painted in several places around this city, yet
@NYCMayor
and
@UFT
keep making decisions that show that they don't really think Black lives matter. Schools aren't safe. We should not be going in next week.
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