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Monday, May 19, 2014

5-19-14 Ed Notes Online

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UFT Contract: NYC Supervisor Comments on Contract/SBO's - Is There a UFT/DOE Conspiracy?
Many teachers are concerned that SBO's are not being approved for anything that does not keep teachers at school until 3:45 on Monday and 3:35 on Tuesday, effectively eliminating any after school programs for kids (and per session pay for teachers) two days a week. The only thing the UFT and City will say is "all SBO's will be considered" but that does not mean approved... Ms Farina is a



UFT Contract - What's Missing - How About Discipline?
The amount of short-sighted "trust" the UFT/Unity crowd is giving this administration is astounding. We have learned from almost 50 years in the UFT - if it's not in the contract, there are no guarantees -- even if it's in the contract, many have learned that the loose language and loopholes allows the DOE to drive truck bigger than Godzilla through.Fariña said that she wanted to see sch

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UFT Contract: Firemen/Sanitation/Cops Trash UFT - "We want UFT off MLC"
We'll never take the deal the teachers got.They got less pension then us, look we didn't take that.We'll go to PERB before we ever sign up for shit like this.If you have to pay for healthcare, or GHI goes shitty you can thank the UFT.Uft and mulgrew are trying to sell us all out, he may do it your wives (reference to the fact many guys have teachers as wives) but he won't do it to us.We told the U
5-18-14 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: UFT Contract: An Attack on WomenThe contract proposal is an attack on feminism. 75% of UFT members are woman. The leadership expects the contract to pass because they anticipate that woman are willing and deserve to accept much lower pay in creases than they deserve.... Comment on Ed Notes After the UFT Brooklyn borough contract meeting, a pregnant teacher came up to ask [Borough