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Friday, May 29, 2020

Why is this union (UFT) different from similar big city unions (UTLA, CTU): Commentary Update

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In previous posts on the coming crisis - Parts 1 Part 2 and Part 3 I was speculating about the possible impact of massive cuts and chang...
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Tuesday, May 26, 2020

UFT Update: Which Came First - the leadership or the membership? Are teachers in LA and Chicago different than NYC?

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I keep wondering if there is a major difference in the kinds of people who go into teaching in NYC vs Chicago and LA -- the three biggest ci...
Monday, May 18, 2020

The Coming Crisis to NYC Education - 1975 to 2020 - Part 3 This is not the best of times - What Will Be Won't Be

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These are the worst of times, these are the even worse than WORST of times. Even Dickens would be horrified and Edgar Allen Poe would run ...
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Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Tributes Pour in For Blogger Chaz - Another DOE Covid Virus Loss

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May 5, 2020 - The entire NYC education blogging world is saddened by the passing of Eric (Chaz the blogger) Chasanoff who we learned died ea...
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Saturday, April 25, 2020

Shades of 1975 - Part 2: The Noblest Strike of Them All, I Run for UFT Delegate and am attacked for my politics

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"There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen" ---- Vladimir Lenin - Jul 15, 1916 Remem...
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Friday, April 10, 2020

Shades of 1975 - Part 1 - The Coming Crisis for NYC Teachers and Students - the Plague is not the only problem

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Note - some people told me Mulgrew referred to this piece indirectly when he pointed out at the UFT Ex Bd meeting on Monday that in 1975 tea...
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UTLA Corona Virus Side Agreement

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The Los Angeles Unified School District (“District”) and United Teachers Los Angeles (“UTLA”) agree to the terms of this Sideletter Agreeme...
Thursday, April 9, 2020

Rocked by 30 Teacher Deaths (so far), DOE Hides Data, UFT Could Poll Chapter Leaders but doesn't - so far

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There's one truth I learned in my 53 years about the DOE  -- there's a right way, a wrong way and the DOE way - and it's most of...
Monday, April 6, 2020

Biden-Linked Firm Tests Messages to Undercut ‘Medicare for All’ - Bloomberg News

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The survey , commissioned by the centrist Democratic think tank Third Way, found that primary voters start off favoring the government-ru...
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Sunday, April 5, 2020

Europe Supports Workers in Crisis While We Fiddle (Dems too) - If Biden "Wins" He gets the boobie prize - a ravaged economy that can't be fixed

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In the United States, the coronavirus has already provoked millions of layoffs . While the $2 trillion rescue package signed by Presiden...
Friday, April 3, 2020

Another Teacher Dies of Corona Virus -- A disturbing timeline and possible coverup

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Unlike other city agencies, including the police department, the education department has declined to say how many of its employees have d...
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Lesson from the Seven Samurai so relevant today

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I have always been a fan of The Magnificent Seven - a very long western starring Yule Brynner, Steve McQueen and so many other major stars. ...
Thursday, April 2, 2020

Bernie will take away your healthcare plans - Union Leaders (Mulgrew, Randi) Need to Answer for Opposition to Medicare for All as layoffs and loss of health care mount

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As even those with good health care plans are laid off and lose them, there is a lot to answer for opposing and even mocking Bernie Sand...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Do People Bloomberg Stiffed Deserve Sympathy?

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‘I’m So Sorry I Worked for This Guy’: Ex-Staffers React to Bloomberg Reversal on Field Organizers March 20, 2020 Bloomberg is so ...
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Sunday, March 22, 2020

Carranzavirus: Sue Edelman, NY Post: DOE, DeB Blood on their hands - Where was UFT?

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One after another, sick Brooklyn Technical High School teachers called union chapter leader Nate Bonheimer last week, to tell him they’d t...
Saturday, March 21, 2020

Tulsi Gabbard, Called Russian Asset by Hillary Clinton, back Biden - meaning Biden must be favored by Russians

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Remember all those attacks on Tulsi by the Dem establishment? And remember how Tulsi sort of defended Bernie when Warren accused him of clai...
Friday, March 20, 2020

Left Meets Right in Populist Movements - the fight is between the people and the elites

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Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming | Nick Hanauer -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2gO4DKVpa8 It’s over, the fight...
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