Sunday, July 29, 2007

UFT To Members: Seniority is No Longer An Issue Because We Eviscerated It

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When I was in college I studied labor history. We studied the development of unionism as an agency for change and protection in the workplac...
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Sunday, July 08, 2007

PR Duplicity: UFT Sells Out Members Rights and Fights For Them in the Press

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Today's Post bashes OSI investigated DOE employees, once again, by citing how they are paid while investigations continue and that the ...
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Thursday, June 28, 2007

Executive Board Approves District 79 Reorganization as Hundreds of Staff Still Don’t Know Where to Go

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In what was hailed as a "breakthrough" in negotiations the Executive Board approved, after an impact bargaining session, an agreem...
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Connecting the Green Dots

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By Norm Scott Why Weingarten's deal with Green Dot dovetails with the general attack on public education Following up on her appearance ...
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Monday, June 18, 2007

“Reckless Reform:” 700 Teachers and Staff Face “Excessing” in Region 79

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Press Release   G.E. D. Students at Risk   Some seven hundred teachers, para-professionals and school secretaries are facing "excessing...
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Friday, June 15, 2007

Memo to Unity Caucus:

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THE UFT ELECTION ENDED By James Eterno UFT Chapter Leader Jamaica High School For the last two months, we have arrived at Delegate Assembly ...
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Monday, May 21, 2007

Staff Shake-Up at UFT Gives Strong Signal of Randi’s Departure

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Executive Board Report…. Randi Weingarten, President of the UFT, in a "surprise" announcement at the May 21 st Executive Boa...
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Wednesday, May 09, 2007

The Top 10 Reasons to Hold a Rally to Oppose the DOE Reorganization

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Number Ten: Privatization – The reorganization moves us towards the privatization of public education by allowing outside companies to incre...
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Monday, May 07, 2007

ICE SUPPORTS MANHATTAN HIGH SCHOOLS’ CHAPTER LEADERS

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On Wednesday, May 9 a demonstration is planned in front of 52 Broadway to protest the UFT's decision to abandon its fight to stop the re...
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Saturday, April 21, 2007

A unique opportunity has been missed

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by Norman Scott The May 9th demo scared the hell out of Bloomberg and would have made a national splash and focused attention on so many of ...
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Comments on UFT High Stakes Testing Task Force

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    The members of the Task Force have done an excellent job of explaining the problems caused by high stakes tests. Speak-outs were held in...
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Friday, March 30, 2007

While Global Warming Is True, ICE is Not Melting

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With about 700 ballots received yesterday and a number not yet counted the preliminary votes from the latest UFT election eliminated the opp...
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Sunday, March 25, 2007

Have You Voted Today?

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There are people in your schools who have not yet voted or are not even aware an election is taking place. In the last election 70,000 activ...
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Monday, March 19, 2007

ICE-TJC EXEC BOARD CANDIDATE JAMES ETERNO PUTS UNITY MOUTHPIECE TO SHAME IN BROADCAST DEBATE

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Unity Rep Zahler and Eterno at WBAI Demonstrating that the UFT opposition has a clear plan to take our Union back from its current giveback ...
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Thursday, March 08, 2007

ICE BEATS NEW ACTION HANDS DOWN

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There's No Comparison; I've been with Both Groups! By James Eterno Jamaica HS Chapter Leader and Ten Year UFT HS Executive Board Mem...
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Thanks Randi?

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We have assembled a sampling of fan mail thanking our fearless leader for all of the wonderful things she has done for us. Names have been d...
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007

ICE-TJC High School Executive Board Candidates

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Peter Lamphere is a union activist and teacher at the Bronx High School of Science. Previously, Peter was a UFT Delegate from Columbus High...
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Monday, March 05, 2007

Can Randi Bite the Board of Ed Hand that Improperly Granted Her State Certification?

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Tenure is now under attack from Bloom-Klein. As the excerpt below from a 2003 Village Voice piece by respected investigative journalist Wayn...
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Saturday, March 03, 2007

CAMERAS BARRED AT UFT PRES "DEBATE"

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At their regularly scheduled Chapter meeting, Friday, UFT members who teach in worker education programs for several unions in the City and ...
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Thursday, February 22, 2007

Camille Johnson, ICE Candidate for UFT Secretary,Talks About the Breakup of High Schools and Teacher Profesionalism

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UFT election ballots will be mailed to members' homes on March 9th. In order for the membership to understand why ICE-TJC candidates des...
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