Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Do you Want to Keep the 37.5 Minute Small Group Instruction Sessions?

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Randi reported at tonight's executive board that elementary school teachers are leaning toward wanting to keep the 37.5 minutes of ext...
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Monday, March 06, 2006

The New Contract: One Month of Hell & Counting!!!

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  How much more can we take?   By Camille Johnson Humanities and the Arts High School   Randi is not a real teacher, so she would not unders...
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Monday, February 20, 2006

Randi Says We've Caught up to the Suburbs.

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Is She Correct? We Don't Think So! By James Eterno, Chapter Leader, Jamaica H.S.; H.S. Rep, U.F.T. Exec. Board In her "city schools...
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Monday, February 06, 2006

Extra Time Hits Home; Register Your Experience

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Reports are coming in from all over indicating that the extra time has been run rather poorly. We have reports that in some schools students...
45 comments:
Friday, February 03, 2006

But They Told Me That I Could Remove this 1962 Letter From My File!

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Contract implementation woes continue as the DOE demonstrates that what appears teacher friendly in the contract is, in essence, an illusion...
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Thursday, February 02, 2006

Unity/UFT Leaders Exposed on Pensions;Unity Supplemental Pension Bill Ignores Current Retirees

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by James Eterno, Chapter Leader, Jamaica HS; UFT Executive Board, HS Rep A Variable Supplement Fund (VSF) distributes excess earnings in...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Inspiring Rikers Teacher Runs Afoul of Jail's Rules

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By MICHAEL WINERIP Published: January 25, 2006, The New York TImes JEFF KAUFMAN, a teacher at the Rikers Island jail, has a reputation as a...
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Thursday, January 19, 2006

Delegate Assembly Misses Opportunity to Stop Improper Money Grab

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The UFT continued to try to cover-up the circumstances surrounding their recent staff pay raise by declining to review the action and then “...
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Monday, January 09, 2006

UFT Leaders Play Take the Money and Run!

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Unity Can't Wait so They Violate their Own Rules with Stealth Vote to Give Themselves a Pay Raise By James Eterno UFT Executive Board (J...
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Saturday, January 07, 2006

WILL RANDI LEAD A UFT RETURN TO MILITANCY IN 2007?

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WE DOUBT IT. (Quotes from Randi's Dec 22, 2005 interview on New York 1 [not taken out of context for sure], the night the Transit Strike...
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Thursday, December 29, 2005

Appellate Court Affirms Right to Union Representation During Disciplinary Interview

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The Appellate Division, Second Department affirmed a transit authority employee’s right to have his union representative present during an i...
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Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Contract Implementation Woes Beginning: Union and DOE Disregard Staff Rights

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In blatant disregard of members’ contractual and democratic rights the Union and the DOE, in at least one district, has decided that they kn...
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Wednesday, December 21, 2005

From the Teachers at Health Professions

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To Transit Workers Union Local 100: We, the teachers of Health Professions High School are in solidarity with the striking transit workers o...
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Thursday, December 15, 2005

WHICH RANDI DO WE BELIEVE?

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By James Eterno The Fighter or the Appeaser      Ever since the membership was convinced to accept a substandard contract that gives away ma...
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Sunday, December 11, 2005

New Contract Demonstrates DOE Plan to Pit CSA Against UFT

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The current confusion over the implementation of the new contract is turning out to be a first look at just how the DOE will cause principal...
14 comments:
Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Executive Board Report - December 5, 2005

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It’s hard to believe that we are on the cusp of a new contract and there is little to do at the Executive Board. One report from districts a...
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Sunday, December 04, 2005

Taking the Initiative in Labor Relations

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If our past experience negotiating against a “formidable adversary” as our leadership calls Bloomberg and Klein produced a wholesale erosion...
7 comments:
Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Shortest Executive Board Meeting Makes Up for Previous One

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Reacting to the recent contract ratification debacle which caused some members to miss the opening kick-off of Monday night football, the Ex...
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Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Living Under a Sellout Contract…Union Says, “Just SBO It!”

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As the impact of the new contract slowly works its way through the schools it is clear that the pre-ratification spin can no longer be spun....
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Friday, November 11, 2005

New Contract Raises Puzzling Questions

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Bob Reich writes in the current CSA News , the monthly newspaper for DOE supervisors, how the new contract will affect his members. He ackno...
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