James Davis is the President of the Professional Staff Congress (CUNY union). The PSC is one of around 100 municipal unions in New York City that comprise the Municipal Labor Committee.
The UFT is also part of the MLC whose votes are weighted based on the size of the union so the UFT and DC 37 dominate the MLC. The PSC for well over a year has resisted privatizing Medicare with a Medicare Advantage plan (Mulgrewcare) for city worker retirees. We have copied below the latest from the PSC that includes a simple primer explaining the situation and a detailed letter from President Davis that asks for us to take action.
As a member of both the PSC and the UFT, I don't think you have to guess which president I will be listening to. Hint, it isn't Mulgrew.
Now is the time to draw a line in the sand and tell the city that we will only take improvements to our healthcare plans for retirees and active members. We will not accept the inferior Mulgrewcare (Medicare Advantage Plus) or paying to keep regular Medicare (GHI Senior Care). We oppose any givebacks on healthcare for active members in contract negotiations as well.
Breaking: PSC opposes weakening NYC health insurance protections.
Proposed changes in NYC administrative code threaten retiree healthcare and, in the longer term, potentially in-service members. Read James Davis’ 9/9/22 message to PSC members about these proposed changes.
You may also find this primer, written by a Retiree Chapter Executive Committee member, useful in breaking down the legal complexities of the proposed administrative code — and its implications for all union members.
The primer:
Some have indicated they don’t entirely understand what the MLC and the City have agreed to regarding health insurance for both active and retiree public employees. Here’s an attempt to make it plain:
The City and the MLC want to change the city law (known as the “administrative code”) that says the city must provide free health insurance to active and retired employees and their dependents. The change would allow the City, with the approval of the MLC, to create different classes (or tiers) of workers for the purposes of giving them health insurance, and the City could then give different free health insurance plans to each class.
Right now the city law does not allow different free plans. Once the change goes into effect, the City will change the free plan for retirees to a Medicare Advantage plan from the current traditional Medicare plan. The City will be allowed to offer the traditional Medicare plan and charge a premium. The City tried to institute such a change over the last year, but was blocked by a judge’s ruling. The City has appealed, and the case will be heard in October. But the change in the law would make the court case moot.
The MLC voted to approve this change on Thursday, September 8. The change in the law must now come before the City Council, which must first hold two hearings about it before it votes. The City wants the hearings and the vote to be in September so that the law case will be moot when it is heard.
Right now the class the City is aiming at is its retirees. But this change in the law allows the City and the MLC in the future to designate other groups of workers as classes that would get different “free” health insurance.
But this change in the law allows the City and the MLC in the future to designate other groups of workers as classes that would get different “free” health insurance plans that would certainly be inferior.
Divide and conquer.
The letter from PSC President Davis:
Dear PSC members and retirees,
I am writing with an update and a request. The update concerns an impending change to the regulations governing health insurance for New York City employees, retirees, and their dependents - a change that the PSC opposes. The request is that you consider the information in this note, review the media reports that emerge in the next few days, and contact your City Council member to express your objection. The Council and the Mayor must approve this proposed change for it to take effect. We will follow up early next week with an Act Now letter to send to your Council member with one click.
Yesterday, the Municipal Labor Committee (MLC), which negotiates health insurance on behalf of the City’s public employee unions, including the PSC, agreed to propose a change to the Administrative Code of the City of New York. This agreement, sought by the City’s Office of Labor Relations, would alter an existing requirement about the City’s minimum obligation to cover the cost of health insurance premiums, as explained below. If approved by the Mayor and the City Council, the change to the Administrative Code will clear the path for implementation of a Medicare Advantage program for City retirees, a plan that the MLC and the City had agreed to last year but was successfully challenged in court. However, the implications of the proposed Administrative Code change are not confined to retiree health insurance and the current Medicare Advantage legal impasse. As PSC’s representatives, Barbara Bowen and I spoke strongly against the proposed change at the MLC Steering Committee meeting and MLC General Membership meeting, respectively, and cast a No vote in each forum, guided by consultation with the PSC Executive Council. Ten other union representatives joined the PSC in opposition, and a handful of others abstained, but the overwhelming majority voted Yes.
The proposed change eliminates the HIP-HMO rate as the single standard for determining the City’s obligation to pay for health insurance for City employees, retirees, and their dependents. Under current law, the City is required to “pay the entire cost of health insurance coverage for city employees, city retirees, and their dependents, not to exceed one hundred percent of the full cost of HIP-HMO….” (NYC Administrative Code, Section 12-126). Currently, the HIP-HMO cost is over $700/month. In practice, when the cost of the GHI/Emblem plan exceeds the HIP-HMO cost in a given year, the NYC Health Insurance Stabilization Fund reimburses the City the difference. Less than 10 percent of municipal employees are enrolled in health insurance plans other than GHI/Emblem, which charge premiums in excess of the HIP-HMO cost, and they pay the difference themselves.
The amended provision will add an alternative method for determining the City’s financial obligation for health insurance. Under the modified language the City and the MLC could agree jointly on a different plan as the standard for either retirees and their dependents or active employees and their dependents, and provide only the cost of that plan. The modified language does not specify what if any elements of health insurance coverage a new “benchmark” plan must include.
A side letter signed by the Office of Labor Relations and the MLC chairman affirms the requirement that any new health insurance plan would have to be jointly approved as the “benchmark.” The letter also specifies that the City would not unilaterally impose a new benchmark plan on the unions as part of mandatory impasse resolution. However, negotiations between the City and the MLC are seldom conducted on an even playing field, and we are concerned that MLC unions will not only lose a critical “floor” currently regulating the minimum reimbursement rate but also lose bargaining leverage in future negotiations with the City over health insurance plans, whether for retirees and their dependents or in-service members and theirs.
Please stay tuned here for a follow-up message early next week that (a) includes an Act Now letter to send your City Council representative and (b) indicates the schedule of the two City Council public hearings that must be held prior to conducting a Council vote on the proposed change to the City’s Administrative Code.
In solidarity,
James Davis, President, PSC-CUNY
I will be getting in touch with my City Council member as should all of you. If you live outside of the city, contact your school's Council member.
We can stop Mulgrewcare again for good this time.
77 comments:
What other unions are voting against the plan???
Doesn’t matter if Mulgrew wants it it will be.done
We voted for Mulgrew
He is our president
So why are we complaining now
The UFT IS A FRAUD. What part of "UFT IS A FRAUD" do you not understand?
And contract expiring in 3 days. Nice work voting everybody.
Do you think Adams would've negotiated quicker with someone other than Mulgrew?
UFT is not a fraud. You may not like everything they do but calling them a fraud is nothing but hysteria. Sorta like your comment.
@10:27 THE UFT IS A FRAUD. WHAT PART OF "THE UFT IS A FRAUD" DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND?
THE MEDICARE ADVANDTAGE BAIT AND SWITCH SCAM ON THE RETIREES IS A FRAUD. THE UFT IS TAKING AWAY RETIREE BENEFITS IN ORDER
TO SATISFY THE FAUX AUSTERITY OF NY CITY AT THE EXPENSE OF UNION RETIREES WHO NEED AND WANT MEDICAIRE AND NOT MEDICARE ADVANTAGE.
ARE YOU SO BRAINWASHED THAT YOU CAN NOT ACCEPT THE FACTS?
Camille has her BLM flag and stacey abrams poster. Vaccine mandate person, she would done same crap mulgrew doing, nothing. 2-3% raise if lucky. Save the stupid 250 teachers choice millions and use to increase salaries.
UFT is an insurance fraud people think they need.
This is deja vu—all over again.So what will the Democratic City Council members, Democratic Mayor or even the Democratic Governor candidate decide with changing laws involving healthcare? Thought the UFT endorsed many of the council members because they were friendly to city labor unions. Just remember this was all agreed upon by Mulgrew and the MLC cartel during DeBlasio’s tenure—although the seeds were probably planted by Bloomberg.
But why in heavens name are Mulgrew and the other large union chiefs continuing to shove this Medicare Advantage down everyone’s throats? Why is a smaller retiree union such such as the PSC—and a few others—continue to have the courage and will power to stand up to the city?
They are negotiating the medical benefits with our increase in salary.
They were off at 2 2 2 3 and Mulgrew Will be a hero
With the cooler fall weather about to arrive in a few weeks—every city retiree including UFT retirees should be protesting City Hall and the City Council.. In addition, UFT retiree protesters should be at the doorstep of 52 Broadway—and be in the ears of Mulgrew. And the same goes for Tom Murphy. I can see it and hear it at the next RTC meeting on September 20–when Murphy introduces Mulgrew —‘Michael please explain the Medicare Advantage health care situation to us as it stands right now’.
And Mulgrew’s response will go something like this. ‘In a time of rising healthcare costs—this Medicare Advantage is the best healthcare on the planet. You will get to keep your doctors and hey— gym membership will be free. This is a win-win. We know what we are doing—because we are educated consumers when it comes to healthcare. I don’t know what you heard, but don’t listen to the negative chatter when it comes to Medicare Advantage.’
Sure, he knows what he’s doing as he kept pushing Medicare Advantage over traditional Medicare on Zoom meetings for over a year and half—until he withdrew his support earlier this year because of court challenges made by smaller courageous unions.
Just wondering if they have resumed in-person RTC meetings—so concerned NY-metro angry members can actually challenge and question Mulgrew, Murphy and Sorkin—in person. But he won re-election with 70%—so what good will that really do.
We cannot stop this Molgrew Care. But I hope they don’t take away Medicare from us and we can pay for it ourselves. People in Medicare advantage program die or get sick waiting for an appeal. Hopefully people realize this ad pay for Medicare later on. Wish everybody good health.
A fraud is someone who pretends to be something they are not. 10:27 is right. Mulgrew doesn’t even bother to pretend he cares about what members want. He openly works for what the democrat party wants even when they shit on teachers like Obama did. Did we want to get tied to test scores? No but Obama did and Cuomo did and the UFT gave Obama and Cuomo (and in fairness Bush as well) what they wanted even though it screwed teachers. Mulgrew pushed Gate’s Common Core which was a disaster in the classroom. Why? Because the political party controlling NY wanted it. Mulgrew is not a fraud. He’s a genuine piece of shit.
No new contract until and unless the Medicare Advantage plan is forced
on the retirees. Cuts in health benefits to active employees of the UFT are also on the way.
The mayor is going to the city council to change the regulations governing health insurance in NY city. Mulgrew is on board with the mayor to screw our retirees and active employees out of health care benefits. (see the Ed Notes blog).
4:58 if you had a point, it was wasted in your all caps message because I for one didn't bother to read it on a Sunday morning. You hysteria is only escalating.
@10:34 Mulgrew is most definitely a piece of shit. But he is supposed to responsibly represent the UFT membership, both active and retired.
Reducing the health care benefits is not representing the well being of the UFT dues paying members. Mulgrew is most definitely a FRAUD.
Why? Because most UFT members pay dues with the expectation and trust that the UFT will conduct its activities on their behalf. The UFT members that trust Mulgrew are being cheated. The UFT is most definitely a FRAUD.
Is anyone on this board happy working as a teacher or is it always just doom and gloom?
The UFT is concession bargaining organization.
Concession bargaining is a term used in labor law. It is a kind of collective bargaining in which the trade unions surrender or give back previously gained improvements in pay and conditions in exchange for some form of job security.
Is it fraud to engage in concession bargaining for decades?
How about when workers clearly have an advantage and job security is not an issue?
It's your dues and your union. Call it what you want. Don't like fraud? How about corrupt?
Someone posted on another thread that we should wait until the Healthcare issue is resolved before negotiating the contract reasoning being that if we get 30% (as an example) and Healthcare goes up 30%, then we've gained nothing.
Who would be willing to wait until the medical is resolved before settling the contract?
What we need to is actually simple. It is simple to say but,
it will be a difficult challenge to achieve.
We need to organize and go on strike with all our union brothers and sisters. All of the unions in NYC need to shut down the city.
The PBA, the FDNY UFA, the UFT , DC37 , the TWU Local 100, the CUNY professional staff congress and all other unions in the MLC.
We need to break the arc of autocracy that is destroying organized labor and ruining our health and wellbeing.
We have the right to withhold our labor.
We must show strength, unity and resolve. We must go on strike together.
11:24 posting your opinion in all caps doesn't make it a fact, it is still only an OPINION. Ya know everyone has one.
11:56, you ask and answer your own questions. It's certainly not preferable to engage in givebacks, for job security, but is it FRAUD? I don't agree that it is. Seems to me that for this to be a union blog, all I ever see is union bashing.
Retirees will get what they deserve. They had the opportunity to get rid of Unity and they didn’t. They will regret it once their shitty coverage kicks in and they either don’t get care or empty their TDA paying for it. Sorry for the retirees that were paying attention. The rest deserve their shitty coverage and I hope they suffer. Suffering is the only way they’ll see what we’re up against and do something about it.
11:25. Doom and gloom because that’s what Mulgrew gets for us instead of five star healthcare and raises that keep up with inflation. Also, go fuck yourself.
RTC meetings are still remote as far as I know.
Retiree Advocate people will be outside UFT Chapter leader meeting on Wednesday.
Maybe I work at a school that's a cut above, but most people are not as miserable as the people on this blog. Not even close. They're not kissing Admin's butt, they're not being bullied (maybe the newbies). And there's a lot of young people who honestly, are not as concerned about the changes to healthcare YET. They're just not miserable enough to strike.
James,
Can you provide a template or specific references to legislation that we should use in contacting our Council members?
Thanks
12:49 you're blaming the retirees? What utter nonsense. How about you go fuck YOURSELF, because clearly no one else would want to, Mr or Ms Gloom and Doom.
12:49 is Exhibit A why people won't unify to strike, unify against Mulgrew or even unify against the mandate. They deserve everything they get and I would not strike for 5 minutes if I thought 12:49 would benefit from it. How nasty and miserable. Blech.
12:49 take your fucking meds before going back to school tomorrow. What a loser.
These posts remind me of Winnie the Pooh's Eyeore's character. I've seen where attempts to say anything positive about the union or teaching, is just ripped to shreds as if everyone's experience is the same to the point where there are no positive posts at all, not about teaching, the union, the students, the parents, the salaries, the pros. Nothing. Maybe that's what the host wants for this blog.
"Eeyore is hardly ever happy, and even when he is, he's still sardonic and a bit cynical. Ironically, he actually seems to enjoy being gloomy to an extent and sees it as the essence of his very being. He is generally characterized as a pessimistic, gloomy, depressed, anhedonic, old grey stuffed donkey who is a friend of the title character, Winnie-the-Pooh."
1249 A POX on you and your entire family.
Hey Anonymous at 8:12,
I have to say that James displays more class than you will ever have on your best day. You insulted James's wife, affiliated her with Black Lives Matter (probably because she is Black), insulted how you think she would go about business if elected, and brought up Stacey Abrams for God knows what reason. James STILL posted your nasty, disgusting, hate filled comment because he believes in free speech.
What does his wife, BLM, and Stacey Abrams have to do with something she has no control over because she was not elected? You have a lot of hate in your blood. I wish you a LOT of help in why you needed a reason to insult someone who has nothing to do with the outcome you don't desire.
In this day and age it needs to be said (because people have trouble thinking reasonably), "I am a Republican". I feel like the host in Billy Madison where he says essentially, "You wasted everyone's time and everyone just got dumber because of what you said."
The UFT will never support a job action. At the height of the pandemic madness when teachers were dying Mulgrew dared utter the word "strike" and James Eterno and other long time militants got excited because they actually thought Mulgrew was threatening a job action, but I knew it was a bluff, not a bluff he was using to force the City to stop sending workers into classrooms to die, but a bluff that he knew he would never follow through on, a bluff that targeted the membership. He fooled the old salts and appeased them for long enough to cut yet another deal that bargained away wages, work conditions, and benefits. Eventually we got our retro money and we kept our jobs, but the concessions were, as always, permanent.
The UFT says, You still got a job. Shut up, pay your dues.
The old folks like me are rare now. Most of the teachers are in Tier 6 and their schools are run like Charters and they don't know any better.
Mulgrew will continue to concession bargain. He doesn't know how to do anything else. You get to keep your job. Again, most of the workers have no idea what it was like when we had strong chapters in schools.
BTW whenever there is a real victory at a school, the UFT takes credit even as they were the biggest obstacle to the victory.
Chapter leaders need to fight the bosses, the admins, the members -who are mostly apathetic, ignorant, and somehow happy getting screwed, and the UFT.
James Davis should send that info out this week. When we get it, we will pass it along.
Shelley, For the record, I felt we had to support the UFT when Mulgrew actually threatened militant action but nobody thought there was much chance of any kind of job action really taking place. My wife watched the press conference in August 2020 and said Mulgrew was not serious but we still felt we should be supportive and not oppose the UFT when they acted like a real labor union for ten days.
Shelly, what do you mean "schools are run like charter schools"? In what way?
It's very insulting to suggest that members are ignorant and somehow happy getting screwed. Some of us weren't there at the beginning so as far as we're concerned we received raises as we came into the DOE, and all we ever knew was Danielson, as that was the standard and that's the training we received so it wasn't a jolt to our systems as it was for the old-timer, or rather veterans. A "veteran" could easily be someone with ten years, not necessarily someone with 20 years. Our experience is just DIFFERENT. If you old-timers don't want to be insulted then perhaps you too should be mindful of the names you call people. Most of the people who are miserable in the schools are not the newer members. They're the ones arranging get-togethers, attending pep rallies, attending games. They were also the ones who weren't so upset at the 7 vacation days as they could use it to actually schedule an affordable vacation, or take some family time during the holidays.
3:16 all it is, is the poster @ 8:12 is still wailing like a woman in labor over Camille's vaccine stance. It just utterly eats at them that she supported the mandate. They're seething with anger and hate over it, but frankly they're probably seething with anger and hate over everything and they want everyone to join them in their hate party. I'm glad they're still so bothered over it.
James, you know how much I support you and Camille and the good people who have worked tirelessly to improve our unions. I only bring up the tragic period to make a point about Mulgrew & Unity and how slick they can be.
We must never forget the workers who died because Mulgrew pulled that bluff, again, not on the City, but on the workers. At our most desperate hour, when you and others, as you say, for 10 days, believed we had a union, Mulgrew was making a deal to bargain away wages, work conditions, and benefits.
On this day of remembrance we should remember out lost members who lost their lives because our president, Mulgrew, bluffed and folded. Again.
What's wrong with a Stacy Abrams poster? Much better than a MAGA hat, that's for sure, and I'm sure the poster has that, and the tee shirt.
One reason Veteran teachers are more miserable is that the union sold us down the river. What is seniority? Seniority is the glue that hold unions together, seniority is solidarity: seniority is the best system to ensure all workers are treated equally and fairly.
But the UFT is out to help the city and state, not members, and senior members earn more, use more health care, and are building higher cost pensions and TDA accounts, so the UFT favors new, cheaper (for the city) members because they pay dues too, are naïve (I correct my adjective, not ignorant) and so UFT is concession bargaining away seniority, weakening the solidarity of the union.
It is foolish to think that a large union with lots of money like UFT is powerful. It is actually weakened by its large membership and money.
Also, the charter school model is on all public schools now and the workers, for the most part, are happy to use google, college board, whatever new fangled technology system the UFT and DOE buy. It matters not that we are part of a scam to beta test yet another massive and costly system that is de-professionalizing us.
Technology has but one purpose: to increase the productivity of workers.
But where is it? Where is the productivity gain? It's not there. The economy is less productive.
And we can't measure productivity in education anyway. We don't produce anything. But were they to use the statistics (we all know are lies . . . grade inflation . . .grade fraud), we should get a huge raise. Put our increased productivity (graduation rates, passing rates, AP exams . . .) and the inflation rate together and we need and deserve a 35% raise.
We will be lucky to get 2-3% (see what Social Security gets) and, of course there will be give backs, more concessions.
So, after all these complaints…
Won’t opt out
Won’t walk out
Won’t strike
No contract…again.
Not sure what will change…Nothing.
Why would someone pay dues?
What is wrong with that poster having a MAGA hat and a t-shirt?
Be and let be.
6:05, and They should. And I am. How is it OK to fire ppl without a due process, take everything they built up over their life time away from them. So, they have principles, they stand for something-is that what you do not accept of?
They are damn right to be agree, and hope others finally will see why. I gather you do not have kids,bcs if you did you would be thinking what that kind of wrong means for the future of a country we are leaving to them, unless you are in a "protected" political class or, let's just say, have no wisdom.
James, Camille and the chapter leaders need to initiate the process of impeaching Milgrew over firing 1500 members WITHOUT a due process.
What is taking so long? You were voted into office by ppl who wanted it to happen.
After the 2009-2018 contractual debacle, how could they let a contract expire again? Are we going to wait 5 years again? When will retro be paid? Really, at some point you have to stop giving the “rah rah we are a union” speech.
5 years? 12 years.
ROFLMAO @ 8:52. Delusional
8:40 - you first, take your own advice.
About the contract that expires tomorrow…Mulgrew, the master negotiator….
NEW: @NYCMayor today instructed city agencies to cut their budgets by a combined 7.75% through the end of the upcoming fiscal year. First version of this breaking story w/ @joeanuta:
https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2022/09/adams-admin-planning-more-budget-cuts-amid-economic-headwinds-00056159
Mulgrew care is the best.
That’s why we voted Mulgrew in.
Just think of it you have a right to say it’s not good and I have a right to say is great.
So when we voted for unity we voted for Mulgrewcare.
The members that. Against are few. Because they would’ve voted out Molgrew
Just think about it you are just a few
Thank God Mulgrew won.
If you want change his vote him out
When you teachers bote Mulgrew out I will also support you because we are union.
I hope we get zero raises and no health care and have to teach July and August so I can spite 12:49. That’ll show him/her. The level of stupidly among teachers is growing.
But we are the strongest.
Roughly 15,000 Minnesota nurses went on strike Monday in protest of stalled contract negotiations and concerns over staffing and retention, wages and patient care. It is believed to be the largest-ever strike of private-sector nurses in the U.S.
...pay dues everybody.
What a shame. This is just plain sad as this healthcare situation just didn’t happen overnight. Apparently most of the MLC labor unions-especially with such a large union as the UFT—have seemed to have lost its clout and leverage especially over the past 20 years. With the UFT that began with the Bloomberg/Klein ridiculous contract era courtesy of Weingarten and Mulgrew. It just seems that Mulgrew and other union big shots just don’t have the real hard support of politicians whether it’s Democratic or Republican—although you might get a slightly better outcome with the Democrats.But you can’t trust any politician or Mulgrew —who was a major player-when it comes to making back door closed deals. And that apparently happened with retiree Medicare Advantage which includes all of the MLC unions.
There is more trouble ahead as the Daily News reported a 7% decrease in public school students while the non-unions Charters increased by 7% since 2020. Also increases in private and religious schools. So the city holds the playing cards with contract negotiations —and they will demand more givebacks, a longer work day—in order to justify any raises. And who knows maybe Adams will some how lobby Albany to get a longer school year..The Taylor Law is here to stay but so is the Triborough Act protection—so negotiations will go nowhere and expect that this current contract will be in effect for at least 2 years—as Adams will call for pay freezes across the board and possible layoffs as the city tries to make its economic way back from pandemic. Just bleak times ahead.
What a stupid post. Not wanting him to return is the same as not wanting a raise or working over the summer? You're right, the level of your stupidity IS growing.
Thank you, James, for once again, bringing this important issue to our attention, and for reminding us why UFC was, and is, the only choice to run the UFT. Simply put, Michael Mulgrew and the Unity caucus don’t care about us and we need a united caucus that not only cares, but will fight for what is right for ALL of its members.
Among all the petty (and useless) bickering in these comments, is the bright light that is Shelley. You are spot on with everything you said. Thank You! Welcome Back!
5:12 The post said "strike". Wouldn't strike for 5 minutes if it would benefit the nasty 12:49. Figure of speech, but didn't 12:49 say retirees should SUFFER because "that'll show him/her"?? Isn't that spiting them? Did you forget that part? My God your hypocrisy knows no bounds. Just shut up. The level of your stupidity is growing.
5:54 is to 2:25, NOT 5:12.
Kind of hard for ANY union leader to accomplish much of anything without the support of it's members, especially during contract negotiations.
If you want to really understand in depth why Mulgrewcare is a complete sham and fraud and Mulgrew is a lying crook, then read the following legal filing under entry #46
https://www.nycretirees.org/announcements
use entry #46 click on the "legal filing" link
This is the legal filing filed with the New York Supreme Court regarding Mulgrewcare. It is a good read!
Also under #45 , read the letter to Michael Mulgrew and Vincent Gaglione
https://www.nycretirees.org/announcements
It is a letter to the UFT which highlights the UFT lies and misinformation on Mulgrewcare. Another very good read.
The UFT under Mulgrew is one very, very sleazy Union.
Sure, stay unified and keep paying dues to your sleazy Union.
548, your post is petty and rude.
Reread the comments 5:54. You’re confused.
7:09, Not confused at all. 12:49 wrote "they deserve their shifty coverage and I hope they suffer. Suffering is the only way....." I think that's clear enough. 2:25 and you are the ones confused.
Mulgrew on twitter, at the White House, on the back of the dues payer, talking about inflation reduction as inflation went up over 8%, while teachers have an expired contract. You cant make this shit up.
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@UFT’s Michael Mulgrew explains why we’re celebrating Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act.
Joe Biden had a victory party at the White House today to celebrate the worst inflation in forty years and the worst day for the stock market since he became president. Biden’s not just the worst president of our lives, he’s also got the worst staff too.
Amazingly, he was joined by UFT President Mulgrew, who is in the middle of gutting healthcare for his retired members. Meanwhile, in service members are without a contract, again.
Some of you will just never get it.
So you all think Adams wouldve negotiated with Camille a lot sooner? Why?
Gee Evan—do you really think Biden is the worst President of our lives—after 4 years of the twice impeached and hopefully soon be to be indicted orange clown-who will go down is the worst President of all time.
On the other hand, there’s no question—Weingarten was probably the worst UFT/AFT President of all time—with Mulgrew a close second as UFT President—but closing in quickly on Randi’s futility.
It was about inflation and no new contract. That’s Mulgrew and Biden.
Lol. Only uft people would be living with no raises after averaging under 2% per year since 2011 while dealing with the highest inflation in 40 years….but bring up Trump. Ok, that makes it better for us. Now talk about how it would be worse if you didn’t pay dues.
We are all weaker with Mulgrew as president and the dems agenda. Dems had 8 plus years and the city is crumbling, but the republicans are the worst?
@9:34 brainwashed clown alert! Every fake impeachment had been exposed. The raid the fbi conducted found nothing. They raid the pillow guy but nothing on hunter biden and the real traitors. I pray you are not teaching social studies I rather have a rat teach than you. How would Trump be the worst in 4 years? When Biden, pelosi, feinstein, mcconnell, crazy maxine been around 40 plus years? No wars, no inflation, economy, pensions, stock markets all time high, lowest unemployment. Awwwww but 95% negative coverage from media. Please you are a lost sheep bahhhhhhhhhhhh.
934 PM,
At least the border is secure now, right.
If I wasn't taking in $150K in this dud of a career, some of you would really upset me.
No wonder why we get laughed at every time our contract needs to be renewed.
Working these clowns running the doe is way less stressful than fighting with them. 150k guy gets it. I’m milking it too. Grab a teat before DeBlasio’s wife tries to come back for more.
You forgot COVID @ 9:56 and the disastrous response under Trump
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