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• The jokes on the UFT

  
  Queens Crap — Authority: 590
  From the Daily News : Mayor Bloomberg vowed Wednesday the city will use students test scores to decide if their teachers should get tenure - defying the Legislature and angering the union. Bloomberg made the aggressive move in a speech in Washington as contract talks with the teachers union have stalled - and ...
  2 hours ago

• Mulgrew challenges Bloomberg’s get-tough tactics on tenure

  
  GothamSchools Newsroom — Authority: 605
  WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United Federation of Teachers is indicating it will resist Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s effort to judge city teachers based on their students’ test scores beginning this year. “When we see an actual proposal in writing we will take appropriate action,” Mulgrew said in an emailed ...
  3 days ago

• Negotiations: What Matters Most

  
  JD2718 — Authority: 422
  A raise, and no harm. Read here .
  5 days ago

• UFT-Funded Scholarships

  
  Edwize — Authority: 422
  Do you know a special high school senior in need of a scholarship? Each year, the Albert Shanker College Scholarship Fund of the UFT proudly gives out nearly $1 million in undergraduate and graduate scholarships to academically excellent and financially eligible students from New York City public schools. The ...
  5 days ago

• Does a new president make a difference?

  
  JD2718 — Authority: 422
  This is about the United Federation of Teachers, not the United States. And I’ve started writing this post four or so times since July. Each time would have been different. In July I would have said that both the old and the new presidents were chosen by the same caucus, so while they look different, there ...
  1 week ago

• To PERB or Not To PERB?

  
  NYC Educator — Authority: 495
  One of my favorite bloggers, Mr. Accountable Talk, is a tad cynical over the decision of UFT President Michael Mulgrew to seek authority to declare an impasse. After all, PERB has screwed us before, and more or less nailed us to the wall in 2005. So why should we go back? Well, one of the ways PERB screwed us was ...
  1 week ago

• How does the Negotiating Committee work?

  
  JD2718 — Authority: 422
  The United Federation of Teachers is negotiating with New York City and its Department of Education for a new contract. The union negotiators work with a larger group of union members. There is a committee of 300, and then a smaller group of 30 that sits in on negotiations. A member of that smaller committee ...
  1 week ago

• Second New Action leader makes statement on negotiations

  
  JD2718 — Authority: 422
  David Kaufman, co-chair of New Action, discusses fish, contracts, and holidays on the New Action website. Over the next days and weeks we will be working to bring you more current content. Earlier this week the other co-chair of New Action, Mike Shulman, also discussed the contract . And in the wake of the vote ...
  2 weeks ago

• Celebrating the “idea that so few could make a difference…”

  
  Edwize — Authority: 422
  On Nov. 1 the UFT paid tribute to its members, both past and present, at the 49th annual Teacher Union Day ceremony at the Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan.
  2 weeks ago

• New Action leader makes statement on negotiations

  
  JD2718 — Authority: 422
  Mike Shulman, co-chair of New Action, discusses money, givebacks and ATRs on the New Action blog. We’ll be working over the next days and weeks to bring more current content to the website.
  2 weeks ago

• Pension error – UFT Statement

  
  JD2718 — Authority: 422
  Bank error to blame for withdrawn pension payments Nov 6, 2009 5:57 PM Some 64,000 retirees, including 53,000 UFT retirees, who rely on electronic pension payments had funds involuntarily withdrawn from their accounts on Nov. 6, causing all sorts of grief for those counting on the money. The Bank of New York ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Vision Thing

  
  NYC Educator — Authority: 495
  Another mayoral election has come and gone, and Mayor-for-life Bloomberg has once again prevailed, buying the election fair and square. Mayor Mike pulled a hundred million bucks out of his sizable pockets, blanketed the metropolitan area with vomit-inducing commercials and persuaded 5% more voters than Thompson did. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Election Lessons on the Hudson

  
  Wade Rathke: Chief Organizer Blog — Authority: 129
  New Orleans It’s a small sample, but the Virginia bellwether and the deeply blue state New Jersey went hard Republican and in Jersey tossed a Democratic governor looking for a second shot.  Across the river, New York City voters surprised the chattering political classes by almost moving Mayor Bloomberg to his ...
  3 weeks ago

• Did the UFT make a difference?

  
  JD2718 — Authority: 422
  It is not pleasant to review mistakes, but the alternative is worse. What miscalculations led the UFT to stay out of the mayoral race?
  3 weeks ago

• UFT prez says no to RttT requirements.

  
  Fred Klonsky's blog — Authority: 475
  Gotham Schools reports that UFT prez, Michael Mulgrew, opposes any change to current state law that bars linking teacher evaluation to single test scores, a present requirement if states are going to receive Duncan’s Race to the Top funding. Mulgrew criticized Assemblyman Sam Hoyt’s bill in an interview with ...
  3 weeks ago

• “Reject Bloomberg on November 3!”, says ICE teachers union members

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 482
  KW: I truly see independent and third party politics as a journey to freeing people from the regular, old choices. So, I love voting advice that inspires people, and makes them consider other options.I think that the way a group within the United Federation of Teachers [UFT] union instructs people to vote this year is ...
  4 weeks ago

• Underdog group within the UFT union proposes interesting voting strategy

  
  Independent Political Report — Authority: 524
  In New York City, the United Federation of Teachers union declined to endorse a candidate for Mayor. Though, a group within the UFT, called ICE, has made an interesting endorsement: They ask members to vote for anybody on the ballot, except incumbent Mayor Bloomberg. Because there are 8 candidates on the ballot — ...
  4 weeks ago

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