Please join MORE caucus UFT 4th Annual Summer Series. It’s a great chance to Discuss, Debate, and Organize!
Thursdays this summer, 4pm-7pm
All are welcome!
The Dark Horse, 17 Murray St. NYCNear City Hall, Chambers St, WTC
Drink specials: $4 domestic drafts, $6 well drinks and $7 wine.
Drink specials: $4 domestic drafts, $6 well drinks and $7 wine.
Please click on the blue links to RSVP on Facebook
Open
to all newly elected or veteran chapter leaders, delegates,
consultation/SLT committee members, para-reps, and anyone interested in
getting more involved in their chapter. Some of the topics include:
Getting members involved, Enforcing contractual rights, Planning chapter
& consultation meetings, Fighting back against administration,
Building allies in PTA/SLT, Filing grievances
July 23rdHow To Build an Opt-Out Movement in Your School
High
Stakes Testing and the Teacher Evaluation System are suffocating public
education. As Diane Ravitch states – the only way to save our schools
is to starve the data beast. That is the mission of the opt out
movement. Find out how teachers around the state are working together
with parents to organize against high stakes testing and fight for the
schools our students deserve!
Are
you wondering what the teacher union is all about and what it means to
you and your students? Is it something you should be active in? Can
unions be vehicles for social justice? What is a caucus? How has the
UNITY Caucus kept control of the UFT for over 40 years? Why did MORE
form? Meet with new and veteran teachers to discuss these questions
and more in this introduction to the inner workings of the UFT.
What
should a 2016 grassroots UFT election campaign look like? Does MORE
have the resources and activists to mount an effective campaign? How can
we use new tools and lessons learned to ensure that organizing for the
election will build MORE? Come learn election nuts and bolts,
brainstorm creative election strategies, and plan ahead for how we’ll
build a campaign that builds a better union.
August 20th
Hardcore MORE Chapter Leader Training: The Nuts and Bolts of Leading Your Chapter – Part II(See Part 1 Above)
Hardcore MORE Chapter Leader Training: The Nuts and Bolts of Leading Your Chapter – Part II(See Part 1 Above)
Our
goal is to have a mobilized, active union that can effectively fight
for our rights by giving all members a voice in the UFT. We believe in
building stronger chapters that connect members with others around the
city who believe our working conditions are our students' learning conditions.
We encourage all NYC educators to join us in challenging the UFT
leadership and transforming the union into one that can lead the fight
in advocating for a fair and equitable education for all our children
while ending the profit-driven testing policies that harms teachers,
students, and schools. Public schools are under attack, that is why we
need a new union leadership that will lead the fight back. Each educator
experiences the attacks on our profession differently: for some, the
testing frenzy has dramatically changed their work lives for the worse.
For others, the new evaluation process and life under a weak contract
are the main concerns. Many of our members work under horrific and
abusive administrators and that reality overshadows everything else. A
strong, member-driven union that stands together with our communities is
the only way to have the public schools we all deserve. The time is now to revitalize the teachers union here in New York City!
Any member of the UFT can become a member of the caucus by making a minimum annual donation of $25 ($10 for paraprofessionals and secretaries)
If you would like to make an on-going monthly donation to help sustain MORE's activities, consider becoming a MORE sustainer.
We also accept the support of community members and parents who are not UFT members.
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