🚨 ALL UFT MEMBERS 🚨
CALL TO ACTION: We call for a member-wide vote for any major changes to active & retired members’ healthcare.
@UFT
leadership failed to give us a voice in regards to our healthcare. Sign the petition calling for a union referendum
Let’s be clear. The retro payments due to the veteran teachers of this city is FOR WORK RENDERED. Not a cute little bonus. WORK RENDERED years ago.
There is no compromise. Pay for our labor.
Okay
@UFT
time to hold you accountable.
We endorsed
@NYCMayor
and he trampled state law & illegally cut
@NYCSchools
budget
We endorsed
@GovKathyHochul
and she is about to pocket veto historic smaller class size legislation.
The endorsement process needs to be revisited. NOW.
We were told snow days were eliminated by
@NYCSchools
in lieu of remote. We are in the midst of a “viral blizzard” where scls for at least 2 weeks will be half-staffed, lightly attended w/mass coverages in many scls. 2 weeks of subs? Prioritize lives, infrastructure & healthcare.
Seriously, Eric! You took away snow days for emergency remote days in our
@NYCSchools
.
Bruh, USE THEM.
Like on days we can’t breathe in orange smog or days with projected flash flooding. This lack of planning is going to ensure you are a one term mayor.
Week 1 after break should be remote so that school sites can run baseline testing.
Maybe, teachers report Jan 3 as scheduled, to be tested at building from Jan 3-4, while teaching students remotely. Schedule students to take C-19 tests Jan 5-7. Neg test means full in-person 1/10?
The
@NYCCouncil
will NOT be taking up the proposed legislation by
@CnDelarosa
to change admin code 12-126 for a vote tomorrow 1/19 as originally planned. CMs want no part of it. This is a major win for
@NycRetirees
and all city workers. An epic loss for
@NYCMayor
& union bosses.
This timeline and claim by
@NYCSchools
is important.
At around 12:15 pm, yesterday, DOE social media says a “shelter in” was now in place.
At 1:56 pm DOE leadership tells principals that the “shelter in place” was lifted.
Some educators saying no such official announcement of
Did
@NYCSchools
just back door remote instruction to boost its attendance rates?
Friday dump. Updated its attendance policy using asynchronous remote *UNANNOUNCED*?
Is
@DOEChancellor
on
@WBAI
right now telling NYers that
@NYCSchools
is expanding the ARTS when he’s part of administration that is cutting millions of $ and schools getting rid of arts and music programs.
5 Pinocchios.
A major reason why so many ACs are failing is because no one ever cleans or replaces the air filters and the motor burns out.
@UFT
needs to bring back the health & safety checklist building walkthroughs we had at COVID height. Include ventilation, AC and more.
Include this as
Congratulations
@NycRetirees
on your latest win!
This is a big win for the rank and file in NYC, also.
Time to take back our city unions from those who are in partnership with City management and mayor.
Workers and retirees, unite!
You got us vacation days for the spring break we worked, Mr. Mulgrew?!?! Vacation days when it’s already impossible to get many admins to grant personal days without going through hoops?!
There needs to be a serious discussion about vulture consultants and the bloated bureaucracy before we speak about the billions of dollars coming our way in education
@NYCSchools
The dystopian concert that shouldn’t have happened in the midst of the Delta raging requires an impending hurricane for
@NYCMayor
to cancel super spreader event. We can’t trust him to fully safely reopen
@NYCSchools
. We will need to decide for him.
#restoreremote
#safetywalkouts
@NYCSchools
Seriously, Eric! You took away snow days for emergency remote days in our
@NYCSchools
.
Bruh, USE THEM.
Like on days we can’t breathe in orange smog or days with projected flash flooding. This lack of planning is going to ensure you are a one term mayor.
One of the items not being talked about in the media that contributed to today’s failure is that the
@NYCSchools
forced many schools who were running Google Classroom via their own school domains to scrap them.
Admins were told to migrate to . There were
Things looking good for
@UFT
retirees AND all city retirees and workers! Judge Frank grants TRO halting City and MLC imposing inferior Medicare Advantage plan on them. Kudos to
@NycRetirees
In solidarity!!! ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏼✊🏻
Unions have always been abt Medicare and not privatization.
The single worst labor deal in NYC history was made by Mulgrew, Garrido and Nespoli. It is the apex of attrition/concessionary bargaining in which city unions and workers now owe $600 million per yr in healthcare cost savings in PERPETUITY.
Now the healthcare of city workers
Bronx and Queens
@SuccessCharters
proposals for co-locations have been pulled. Congratulations to all the school communities, families, students, parents, advocates, activists & educators that fought so valiantly for our neighborhood public
@NYCSchools
*THE PEOPLE UNITED*
The MANDATE is clear
@UFT
.
Today, 2 pillars of our union — retirees & paras — spoke resoundingly with the historic wins by the
@RetireeAdvocUFT
and Fix Para Pay slates.
- Preserve and improve our premium-free, quality healthcare.
Leave Medicare alone.
- Fix para pay. Our
Let’s be clear:
@uft
Mulgrew is not fighting for active members or retirees. He’s fighting for his political life.
After he initiated, negotiated, agreed to and designed 9 years of healthcare cuts and sought to force retirees into Medicare Disadvantage … and only after
History is being made at
@uft
headquarters at this moment. For the first time in almost 50 years, retirees will vote in an executive board and delegates that are **NOT**
@UFTUnity
for its Retired Teachers Chapter.
The
@RetireeAdvocUFT
Slate is poised to win a historic,
Mr Mulgrew
@uft
tell the membership. Tell us that we’re likely not getting Teachers Choice stipend for the supplies we purchased for our classrooms because of Adam’s budget cut games, in which he now blames migrants for. Why don’t you offer some of the Teacher Center funding to
We join
@NycRetirees
to thank the CMs that have shown the courage to stand for our city retirees and city workers (future retirees) by co-sponsoring 1099!
We need all in
@NYCCouncil
to stand with the rank and file who undergird this great City.
Hands off our Medicare!
Safe to say that when
@DOEChancellor
Carranza suggested parents should opt out of state testing and that summative assessments right now were not necessary and hurtful especially to BIPOC ... we heard from the REAL EDUCATOR and not the political puppet.
The candidate you just endorsed for mayor
@uft
just promised a 3 to 5 percent PAY CUT across all city agencies, in tonight’s debate.
We’ve been SOLD OUT!
Tomorrow,
@NYCMayor
and
@UFT
Michael Mulgrew announce a blockbuster deal.
Adams will lower his school budget cuts and
@UFTUnity
accepts these desks in our
@NYCSchools
@Gothamist
The mayor will tell us THESE ARE NOT CUTS. His Wall St & Real Estate lobby “non-partisan watchdog”
@cbcny
will tell us we are on fiscal cliff, while they continue to privatize social services, healthcare, etc in order to profit from our tax dollars. City council wake up or go!
Educating our kids isn’t just a job. It’s a mission. This is no time to go back to a broken system. It’s time to build on what we know works: Mayoral Accountability and partnership with the
@UFT
and
@NYCSchools
. Proud to stand with our teachers today.
Thank you
@AOC
. Your voice and the voices of all electeds on this matter is vital. NYC workers and retirees are rallying around this healthcare issue with urgency and resolve.
They are privatizing public healthcare and undermining traditional Medicare.
Please sign this letter to restore DOE Passover observance days. There are extra days in the calendar this year. There's no excuse for this.
@rweingarten
Please R/T
Let the record show
@NYCMayor
announced the suspension of alternate side of the street parking rules before announcing that
@NYCSchools
staff would have to report to work remotely tomorrow for professional development during an 1 in a 1000 year climate disaster.
We vote, too.
Misogyny, much
@NYCMayor
City to 75% female teacher workforce: Shame on you for not getting vaxxed. Do it for the children
City to NYPD & FDNY: C’mon fellas. Do this for us. Here’s a little sumptin’ for your trouble
Up to $23 mil.Wasting fed bailout $
More educators are leaving our profession than ever before. We’ve been given more work, overcrowded classrooms, fewer protections, longer work times with no say & little or no compensation, and our students & school communities are dealing with… Read more
Less than 7 days ago,
@uft
and
@UFTUnity
union leadership was asking Adams for remote pause due to staff shortages & surge. Tonight, they are voting down requests for waiving, extensions or digital signatures for educators running for UFT elections, insisting on paper petitions🤦🏽♂️
Mulgrew in
@UFT
town hall trying to say there is no new agreement for healthcare savings as part of this round of contract talks. Well, that’s because he’s already committed to over 600 million dollars per yr in healthcare cost savings IN PERPETUITY.
Forever, ever.
@UFT
They essentially eliminated classroom closures/quarantines and you’re warming up for a victory lap?
You really are DISCONNECTED from the educators you claim to represent.
We are here because of Mulgrew’s
@UFTUnity
caucus contract givebacks.
We are here because of the torturous 37.5 minutes AGREED to in 2005 sellout contract.
We are here because Mulgrew would rather obfuscate over the 37.5 giveback than address his 2014 and 2018 healthcare
We can no longer allow
@UFT
’s President Mulgrew to make unilateral decisions for us. From not seeking our consent to changes to our contract during the pandemic to threatening our premium free healthcare w/ back room deals.
Maybe time for a NO CONFIDENCE VOTE.
@MOREcaucusUFT
We bailed this city out in 1975, from the brink of bankruptcy.
After the Great Recession in 2009.
TWICE. NO MORE.
Ask the men in our other city departments to sacrifice for our beloved city.
Retro. Now.
Earlier this week,
@UFT
Mulgrew finally admitted that the RFP to replace GHI for all city workers is now down to 2 final bids — Emblem/United vs Aetna.
We want the details on the proposals that the MLC received in September. Why did
@UFT
vote with City for Aetna in preliminary
Reflection on these safety reports: Doesn’t all this work to ventilation systems throughout the city make the city and DOE even more liable for the outbreak in March, even as they delayed closing?
Years of neglect and disrepair created the Petri dishes & cesspools for this 🦠
Looks like the chancellor amended this tweet to take out reference to the walkout today. I grabbed a screenshot though.
More on the student action here:
All day to make this health and safety decision and this email at 2:54 PM was sent as most teachers were out the door
@NYCSchools
?
And still no firm answers
This ‘Hunger Games’ edu-policy is why so many are leaving this profession
When do people start to come first?
Why did we stop fighting for smaller class sizes in our contract
@UFT
? It’s been almost a half a century since we have negotiated a reduction in class size caps! It is time… Be better. Do better. Expect better.
It’s been 10 days since the last press release
@uft
in the midst of an uncertain re-opening w/ Delta raging.Not a single press release on reopening since May. Do we all need to go to 52 Broadway & hold a press conference abt what we need for a safe return?
City retirees calling for
@UFT
Mulgrew to be voted out after he orchestrated and pushed his “Mulgrewcare” Medicare Advantage plan on all city retirees, today.
We now have to start to question election integrity and whether ALL
@UFT
contract ratification votes will be received & counted.
3 emails sent to all school chapter leaders who may have already conducted votes & attempted to drop off mail package at USPS.
Here they are … 🧵
Join
@NYCSchools
parents & educators on a Zoom call, Mon 7/25 at 4 pm. Advocates For Justice will share details abt the lawsuit against the
@NYCSchools
budget cuts and how you can join as a prospective plaintiff or how to become a supporter.
More & RSVP:
This is a DEALBREAKER
@NYCMayor
. 4 days for contact tracing is UNACCEPTABLE and GROSS NEGLIGENCE.
May be time for class action litigation on this matter?
I am a teacher at MS 88.
UPDATE: My colleagues are hearing from Test & Trace for the FIRST TIME this morning-- 4 days since exposure in our school building, and 3 days since we were notified (from self-reporting and internal tracing.) 1/
@MOREcaucusUFT
Let’s be clear. This is a remote work action. Not a strike work stoppage. The distinction is important because under Illinois state law, it is illegal for teachers to strike for other than issues re pay/wages. This is abt safety for workers & communities.
The results of tonight's citywide electronic ballot are in. Starting tomorrow, all CTU members at CPS schools should be working remotely. The result of tonight's vote was 73 percent in favor of the remote-work-only job action.
Here is
@DOEChancellor
telling all New Yorkers that
@NYCSchools
building response teams were activated and that all schools were, in fact, following a “shelter-in place” protocol. Again, there are mandates w/ “shelter-in”, & directive not communicated at schools.
Paras in this proposed new
@UFT
contract still do not get a living wage in NYC.
Then to hear Mulgrew call the retention bonuses … “equity bonuses” is inconsistent with anything we know about EQUITY.
Giving all the titles the same amount in retention bonuses is NOT EQUITY.
Who are we kidding? This mayor telegraphed his intents to have 3-5% cuts to all agencies from the get! Eric “Scissorhands” Adams has money for his cronyism but not for the people of this city, the civil servants who are its engine, & the marginalized
INBOX:
@NYCMayor
's office announces another 5% budget cut across all city agencies, citing concern about "financial disruption" from the migrant crisis.
"The administration will seek to minimize disruption to programs and services, and there will not be layoffs," City Hall says.
City workers: Would you hit the streets if The City of New York and MLC only offered -
1 new barebones PPO healthcare plan or the HIP/HMO… eliminating all other choices?
Would it finally be time to hit the streets?
It’s time for a citywide coalition of workers. Rise up.
FROM INFOHUB .... WHAT JANUARY 12TH MOA,
@UFT
? Regarding this new policy of a asynchronous remote option for and attendance?
WHEN ARE WE INFORMED TO WHAT WE ARE AGREEING TO?
Buried in a principal’s memo?! What is going on?
You’re touting this
@uft
? Not a single staff member is being tested for COVID-19 at schools? What is the breakdown of the 35% of those who have turned in consent? Where are the schools with less than 10% of the pop without consent? This is the Trump measure. No test. No COVID-19
West Side HS is the oldest transfer HS in
@NYCSchools
. It has been successful in supporting children because of its location and connection to community, onsite childcare, onsite health clinic and championship athletic teams.
#SaveEARWestSide
PULL THE RESITE PROPOSAL!
@UFT
If Mulgrew succeeds in forcing retirees into Mulgrewcare - his privatized Medicare Advantage scheme, IS IT TIME FOR A VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE?
@rweingarten
Maligned
@uft
president is officially pulling support of Medicare Advantage. Letters to membership, press, MLC, etc are forthcoming.
Mr. Mulgrew, this is your disaster. No amount of damage control will absolve your direct actions in bringing this about.
NO DEAL.
If there isn’t 100% transparency w/ positive cases from here to the 21st and beyond
❌ NO GOOD FAITH AGREEMENT
If the city will not commit to contact tracing now of our positive cases
❌ NO GOOD FAITH AGREEMENT
No loopholes w human lives
@NYCMayor
Does anyone remember what zip code
@NYCMayor
&
@DOEChancellor
visited to launch their reopening propaganda campaign press conferences at city schools?
We do!!!
11691 in Far Rockaway. Which leads Queens in positive cases. And now to shut down.
We won’t go down with this ship.
Our GHI plan is next on the chopping block in Mulgrew’s perpetual “cost savings” debt to the City. Our & our families’ healthcare is not for sale
@uft
.
It’s time we stand up and say —NO!
Sign the petition. Let us vote!
Let’s recap:
@uft
’s Mulgrew, the president of a public sector union told teachers on govt payroll, tonite, that he doesn’t trust doctors on govt payroll? So we need to trust the private doc he hired? He is a PRIVATIZER. Same one who sought privatized Medicare for city employees.
Mulgrew wants us to think all of the “cost savings” the MLC in the last 9 years were worth it. Things were working until now. It’s only now that his partnership has been adversarial so he’s dropping out? What was worth it, Mike?
❌ Trying to force 250k retirees into inferior,
If you are a
@UFT
retiree or you know a UFT retiree, this next RETIRED TEACHERS CHAPTER (RTC) is a chance to take our union back from Mulgrew’s dangerous agenda with our healthcare.
Vote for the RETIREE ADVOCATE SLATE for the RTC chapter. Voting takes place 5/10 to 6/13. Mail
Mulgrew’s
@UFTUnity
caucus will tell you they are against:
- privatization of education but support privatization of healthcare by forcing retirees into Medicare Advantage
- silencing voices of PEP members with time limits but silenced opposition voices on executive board by
A few years ago, UFT president, Michael Mulgrew, said the words you hear to a raucous AFT crowd over his support for Common Core. (*unmute, if needed)
Today, UFT and city retirees need Mr. Mulgrew to know he must get his hands off their healthcare.
We’re trying to be much more
UFT LEADERSHIP – BEFORE YOU SUE SOMEONE IN OUR NAME, ASK.
Shouldn't Mulgrew check with
@UFT
members before he makes a decision like filing a lawsuit in our name?
By Nick Bacon
@UrbanGnosis
This was done early in the lockdown, last time. If NYS is declaring a state of emergency, with the coming surge …why are we not testing all students & teachers on site at
@NYCSchools
? We need this data with the coming surge. Keep us safe!
Thank you
@JustinBrannan
We join
@NycRetirees
to thank the CMs that have shown the courage to stand for our city retirees and city workers (future retirees) by co-sponsoring 1099!
We need all in
@NYCCouncil
to stand with the rank and file who undergird this great City.
Hands
You were NOT READY FOR PRIMETIME,
@NYCMayor
and
@DOEChancellor
You’ve got the children of our city on the basic value plan?
End mayoral control of
@NYCSchools
IBM blames DOE contract when asked why NYC remote school system failed during snowstorm
The time to democratize the
@uft
has come.
In a union of nearly 200k members, comprised of almost 80% women, THREE MEN IN A ROOM making the decisions MUST CHANGE
Vote for
#abetterunion
Join the Educators of NYC in supporting the United For Change slate in the spring
@ufcuft