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Showing posts with label TJC. Show all posts

Showing posts with label TJC. Show all posts

Sunday, October 6, 2024

The Caucus Role in UFT in Elections: The ICE Experience

The Caucus model works very well for Unity over 62 years. Not so well for the other caucuses. The premise for his and succeeding series of ...

Wednesday, October 10, 2018

UFT Opposition Update: Not All Peace and Harmony as 2019 Elections Approach

Representatives of MORE and New Action met recently to discuss running in the UFT election and from what we hear the coalition would not in...

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

History of the UFT Opposition Since Late 80s Plus My Prequel

This Saturday, January 14, is a MORE retreat from 12-4. Kit Wainer has prepared a history for people so they have a basis for going forwar...

Thursday, September 3, 2015

UFT Caucus History/Math Lesson: Long Division - Part I

In a multi part series I will review the history of caucuses in the UFT from my perspective over the past 45 years. I will point to a histor...

Thursday, August 28, 2014

ICE Meeting Friday - ICE and MORE - A Lesson for New Action

At the MORE meeting with New Action last October, we offered the ICE model to New Action as a way for their people to work within MORE fo...

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Has UFT/AFT Given Up Pretense They Are Opposed to Individual Merit Pay?

Teachers for a Just Contract has a pretty good analysis where they claim that agreements between the UFT and the DOE has broken down the so-...

Thursday, October 2, 2008

TJC: ATRs UNDER THE GUN

From Teachers for a Just Contract ATRs have been receiving a lot of negative publicity. ATRs are teachers who, through no fault of their ow...

Saturday, October 27, 2007

Albert Shanker, Image and Reality

I came across this by TJC's Swerdlow and Wainer written shortly after Shanker died in 1997. "The Shanker-Feldman vision has so weak...

Sunday, October 14, 2007

Merit Pay, the UFT, TJC, and NCLB

At one point I did not understand how the UFT and Weingarten could support merit pay in any form. But after reading the Kahlenberg book o...

Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Election results reflect UFT crisis

By Megan Behrent, UFT | April 6, 2007 | Socialist Worker Online, Page 14 NEW YORK--Elections in the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) ende...

Thursday, March 29, 2007

Breaking News: March 29, 2007

UFT vote count all day at Park Central Hotel, 7th Ave & 55th St. Election committee announced that mail received today will be counted. ...

Sunday, March 18, 2007

Marian Swerdlow Video: The High School Executive Board elections

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1CGhEaGtsY Marian Swedlow, one of the founders of TJC (Teachers for a Just Contract) 15 years ago, and a de...

Thursday, February 15, 2007

LA Lessons for Teacher Union Dissidents?

The excerpt s below are from an article in the LA Times about the dissident movement that took over the LA teachers union in the Feb. 2005...

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

UFT Election Notes - Feb. 14, 2007

Happy Valentines Day to all! UFT election petitions were turned in this past Monday. Getting this organized is quite a task and thanks to I...

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