Thursday, June 30, 2022

NY1'S JILLIAN JORGENSEN NOMINATED FOR NY EMMY

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Jillian Jorgensen has been nominated for a NY Emmy. My kids and I were on what I believe was her first story when she took over the educatio...
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Monday, June 27, 2022

THE BANKS-ADAMS SUPERINENDENTS.

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Does anyone have any information on the superindents? Feel free to comment.
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NY TIMES EDUCATION PITCHBOT HAS PERFECT SATIRICAL END OF YEAR STATEMENT

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New York Times Education Pitchbot@GreyLadiesNYC produces excellent parody on Twitter by poking fun at the awful education coverage that is ...
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Friday, June 24, 2022

ACTIVE CITY WORKERS NEED TO WATCH OUT FOR UNIONS DISCUSSING HEALTHCARE SAVINGS

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This is in the UFT Chapter Leader Update: Efforts begin to rein in health care costs The Municipal Labor Committee, the umbrella group of ne...
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UFT DELEGATE ASSEMBLY AND EXECUTIVE BOARD DATES FOR NEXT SCHOOL YEAR

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Here is the schedule for the Administrative Committee (12 officers), Executive Board, and Delegate Assembly for 2022-23. You have a constitu...
Thursday, June 23, 2022

DC 37 RALLIES FOR RAISES; BRITISH AIRWAYS WORKERS VOTE TO STRIKE

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District Council 37 is a large city union that has around 100,000 members. They have been without a contract since May 2021. According to th...
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Wednesday, June 22, 2022

UK RAIL STRIKES ARE ON; ARE TEACHERS NEXT?

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Labor's main weapon is the strike or at least the credible threat to withhold labor. England is seeing a national rail strike this week....
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Monday, June 20, 2022

RETIREE GROUP SAYS THE CITY MISLED THE JUDGE IN MEDICARE PRIVATIZATION CASE

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It looks like the city stooped to misleading a judge on retiree healthcare. Ace NY Post reporter Sue Edelman along with Richard Calder obtai...
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Saturday, June 18, 2022

BRYANT HIGH SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS THREATENING TEACHERS WHO DON'T PASS STUDENTS WHO DON'T SHOW UP AND/OR DO NO WORK

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Sue Edelman and Melissa Klein have an article in the Post on grade inflatiin/fraud under Principal Namita Dwarka at Bryant High School. One ...
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Thursday, June 16, 2022

CITY LOOKING TO PUSH ALL CITY WORKERS AND RETIREES INTO CHEAPER HEALTH PLAN

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This is from New York Focus : New York City is seeking to replace the main health insurance plan that it provides to its employees with a ne...
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Tuesday, June 14, 2022

MAYOR ADAMS AND SPEAKER ADAMS BOTH PUT OUT STATEMENTS ON SCHOOL BUDGET CUTS

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The annual city budget passed with only 6 dissenting City Councilmembers. 44 voted in favor . There are big budget cuts this year to individ...
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Sunday, June 12, 2022

RETIREE RALLY ON THURSDAY TO TELL MAYOR ADAMS NO PRIVATIZED MEDICARE

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 This is a rally scheduled by the Cross-union reiree Organizing Committee (CROC).
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Friday, June 10, 2022

MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL ANNOUNCE BUDGET DEAL; SCHOOL CUTS NOT RESTORED; LABOR RESERVE INCREASED

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 There is a budget deal between the Mayor and the City Council. Some details that may be of interest from Gotham Gazette : Mayor Eric Adams ...
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UNITED FOR CHANGE FILES 74 PAGES OF UFT ELECTION COMPLAINTS

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The United for Change Election Committee members have put in 32 election complaints regarding the recent UFT election. When we add in suppor...
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CITY PLANNING MAJOR HEALTHCARE GIVEBACKS SINCE BLOOMBERG DAYS

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The document below I was informed goes back to the final days of the Michael Bloomberg administration. Look closely and you will see the cit...
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Wednesday, June 08, 2022

LIVE BLOGGING FROM JUNE DA (Largely Unedited)

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 I got on a little late. President's Report: When I got on the call, President Michael Mulgrew was giving a review of the 2021-2022 scho...
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Tuesday, June 07, 2022

PRELIMINARY 2022-23 SCHOOL BUDGETS SHOW HUGE CUTS (Updated with Sienna Poll Results)

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This is on Twitter: The UFT also tweeted out that Mayor Adams has made no cuts to the central Department of Education bureaucracy.  Why agai...
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Monday, June 06, 2022

CAN THE UFT WIN A BASICALLY OPEN AND SHUT GRIEVANCE TO GET SPECIAL PER SESSION PAY FOR ALL SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS WHO TEACH AN EXTRA CLASS?

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This is an excerpt from an email sent by Aviation Chapter Leader Ibeth Mejia to the rank and file at her school.  6th Period Pay Grievance: ...
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Sunday, June 05, 2022

UFT ELECTION TOTALS BY DISTRICT: 2022 COMPARED TO 2016

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For UFT election turnout nuts, we have put together the numbers based on what we received in 2016 compared to 2022 . We think we got it rig...
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LOWER CLASS SIZE BILL AND TWO-YEAR EXTENSION OF MAYORAL CONTROL PASS ASSEMBLY AND SENATE

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This was in the NY Post :   A bill to shrink class sizes in New York City schools has passed the state legislature — despite strong opposit...