Sunday, June 5, 2011

Sunday links. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Sunday links. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Sunday links.

Mayor Bloomberg (right) and Jonathan Alter.

If you’re on Facebook, don’t forget to sign up to be a member of the Orange Sweater Caucus, so named in honor of the day at the 2010 IEA Representative Assembly when the now very lame duck Ken Swanson claimed he couldn’t see me at the microphone. The next day I put on the ugliest orange sweater I could find. Apparently you have to be seen to be heard. Our Caucus demands that before the IEA leadership sits down at table this summer with Ty Fahner and the Civic Committee that they commit to the promise that giving away members’ future and present pensions is not what is on the menu. No reduction in benefits. No increase in

The Wall.