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Sunday, February 11, 2007
Why We Need Independent Voices on the UFT Executive Board
Unity Caucus is not satisfied with holding over 90% of the seats on the Executive Board.
High School teachers will get to decide whether they want to maintain the only 6 independent voices out of 89 on the UFT Executive Board by voting the ICE-TJC slate when the ballots go out on March 9th.
High school teachers who vote the ICE-TJC slate will be casting their votes for:
James Eterno, CL Jamaica HS, Exec. Bd. member for 10 years
Jeff Kaufman, CL Island Academy, Exec. Bd. member for the pst 3 years
Sam Lazarus, CL Bryant HS
Nick Licari, CL Norman Thomas HS
Marian Swerdlow, Delegate, FDR HS
Peter Lamphere, Bronx High School of Science
Unity Caucus is not satisfied with the control of 93% of the Executive Board. So they have enlisted their partners New Action to run for the 6 seats ICE-TJC presently control. The Unity/New Action candidates will be on the ballot on both the Unity and New Action lines. Their combined vote total will be tough for the ICE-TJC slate to top.
ICE-TJC needs all high school teachers to rally behind the ICE-TJC slate and stop this naked attempt to remove independent voices from the Executive Board.
VOTE ICE-TJC
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One thing you could do is to put out a counter leaflet taking apart their arguments. Just one school but our goal is to have many out there like you to counter them school by school. That is the long-term battle in this union that goes beyond this election.
ReplyDeleteIf you want to remain anon there are still ways to do it. We can help you if you want.
Unity collects dues from its members $25. But at election times they ask all people who want to be delegates to the conventions to pay $100 -- and this year they held a lottery so not all who pay will go.
They just got 700 new people to join so they could have 1-2 thousand members. Lots of dough.
One new CL who just joined is so pissed about that and other stuff and is coming to an ICE meeting. That may be our best recruiting.
They are very careful with money but the use of personnel and probably printing machines is another issue. All caucuses can send out stuff to CL and ask them to put it in the boxes. But Unity gets favored treatment and they use the District reps as part of the network. We feel it would be a waste with so many Unity CL. At some point we will try to id all of them and send to the schools without them but that is a massive process.