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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Extortion At 3020-a Arbitration in New York City - ParentAdvocates.org

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Extortion At 3020-a Arbitration in New York City
From Betsy Combier: The 'NYC Rubber Rooms' refer to the eight locations scattered throughout New York City where targeted tenured individuals were held for 2 - 7 years while The Gotcha Squad created charges against them without their knowledge or consent. The United Federation of Teachers, the New York State United Teachers legal group and the New York City Board of Education all conspired together to deny thousands of people their constitutional due process rights by denying them a full and fair hearing on the charges brought against them, forcing these professional employees to make a deal to pay thousands of dollars for being charged fairly or not and/or “irrevocably” resign . Many did not go away willingly, so NYSUT attorneys and the New York City Department of Education forced them to go. This is one story.

Mike Mulgrew, UFT President
Extortion at 3020-a
Black’s dictionary, 6th edition, defines “extortion” as: “The obtaining of property from another induced by wrongful use of actual or threatened force, violence or fear, or under color of official right.”

Lately it seems that every tenured employee of the NYC Board of Education brought to 3020-a arbitration is being terminated. The arbitrators currently serving on the UFT-BOE New York City panel seem to be unwilling or unable to find a lesser penalty for any level of misconduct or incompetence.

No one is really listening to the facts of any case