One of the leaders of the UFT bullying attack mob is District 21 Rep Adam Shapiro. In addition to his teacher salary which is well over 100k (for teaching one period a day), he also makes 120K at the UFT. Not a bad haul for a guy who spends his days designing attack ads on those opposed to Unity. Hell, I do that to Unity for free.
It is particularly ironic for over 200k Shapiro to attack a 50k para who does not make a living wage because of Shapiro's inept Unity Caucus' inability to secure paras a living wage 50 years after the founding of the para chapter while we've seen other urban unions like Los Angeles make large gains for paras in recent contracts.Shapiro even let down his own caucus in the recent TRS campaign where Unity went hard at turning out the vote and gave the Dist reps the assignment. Dist 21 had horrendous turnout. Adam was too busy writing attack memes.
While he fawns for LeRoy’s approval, Shapiro would rather continue to collect two pensions, not Fix Tier 6 and abuse paras working 2 jobs trying to keep up with the out-of-control costs of living in NYC, without a living wage. Shapiro and his Unity fraternity even voted against a resolution to come up with a comprehensive, robust collective bargaining plan to fix para pay in March of 2024.
Just as egregious is that UFT second in command and the head of Unity Caucus, LeRoy Barr, liked and shared the Shapiro post. LeRoy wants to look like the good guy so he lets Shapiro be the hit man. The next time LeRoy claims he represents the UFT, not Unity Caucus, LOL - Loudly.
There is no bottom for these self-serving bastards.... I know of at least two more Unity members who merit my poison pen this morning. I’m going to spare them because they are not important. They’re just cogs in the Unity machine. Mulgrew is the head... When he goes, another will take his place... personal attacks for their own sake aren’t really necessary..... to point out the hypocrisy of their stooges, most or all of whom are on salary.... The Unity machine has to be taken down.... Arthur Goldstein, Mulgrew's Unity Caucus Personally Attacks A Working UFT ParaprofessionalArthur Goldstein, former UFT executive board member and candidate in the Retiree Advocate slate calls out the savage bullying of rank and file members, especially women, by Mulgrew and Barr’s Unity caucus patronage machine — causing some Unity members to question their allegiance to their union leadership after a barrage of unfounded attacks and disinformation.....Educators of NYC
I'm not going to spare anyone ... Ed Notes
Corruption @UFT in Para Election: Full-time patronnage jobs -- Unity is more interested in Unity than its membership,
This is from Marie Para (Wausnock) showing Unity cheating at an official UFT event. The video is on Facebook.Spotlight on Truth: You can’t say you didn’t….cause ‘ya did!! Lets look at the video tape!
Let’s pay attention to the rules of the UFT. Let’s be clear on a few things….the UFT is our union, Unity is a caucus within the union. Just as there other caucus’, such as MORE, ICE and SOLIDARITY. Unity has been the controlling caucus within the union. Whenever there is a function that the UFT pays for, NO caucus can campaign at these events. If they did allow this, all candidates should be given the same space, time, and expense of campaigning on the UFT’s dime…or should that be on YOUR UNION DUES.
Many paras have to take a second job, the reason Migda could not attend para exec bd meetings where most of the members are Unity and have extra jobs at the union. Going back to Arthur who tells the full story:It’s quite another to attack Migda Rodriguez. Migda simply cannot make a living on a paraprofessional salary. I’m sure I couldn’t either. So she has a second job to provide for herself and her family. Thanks to Unity’s long-time failure to negotiate a living wage for city teachers, I worked two jobs for decades, and I understand the strain of doing so.
Migda, along with some friends, decided to help herself. She decided that Unity was not making her economic survival a priority. A raise that does not meet cost of living, like the ones in the most recent contract, is not a raise at all. In fact, it’s a pay cut. And occasional bonuses do not obscure the fact that UFT paraprofessionals need a raise, not a tip.Migda and her friends ran for UFT office. Migda was elected second vice chair by her fellow paraprofessionals. The last person to hold that position, a Unity caucus member, was given a full-time union job to perform his duties. After all, where on earth is someone working full-time as a paraprofessional, let alone working two jobs, supposed to find the time to help members? Unlike teachers, paraprofessionals are programmed all day, with only a break for lunch.
Mulgrew’s Unity Patronage Cult runs the UFT. While the members chose Migda, Mulgrew chooses only people loyal to him. So there was no job for Migda. There was no office space. There was no time off. There was no email list for Migda to contact those who chose her. In fact, Unity did not even give Migda Rodriguez a stinking UFT email address.
Make no mistake, just like they did to the non-Unity OT/PT leader, Melissa Williams, they froze out Migda. They deliberately made it impossible to do her job. Then, when she chose to continue to support her family rather than attend meetings, they decided to humiliate her publicly.
I’ve been to the Unity page. People with Unity jobs are saying Migda should have stepped down if she couldn’t attend the meetings. In fact, when Melissa Williams did just that, stepped down, they ridiculed her for doing so. She was useless, a phony, or whatever juvenile nonsense the stilted minds at the patronage mill could muster.
If you’re opposition, Unity will come after you no matter what you do. They’ll do anything to protect their privileged positions. Unity has no consistency, no integrity, and say whatever they can muster to suit the moment and protect their privileged status at the patronage mill....Mulgrew's Unity Caucus Personally Attacks A Working UFT Paraprofessional: There is no bottom for these self-serving bastards.
A former Unity/UFT official pointed out to a Bronx district rep who was attacking Migda that the UFT did not give her a job like they did to all previous 2nd vice presidents and would not even giver her an email to do the job and said it was unfair to attack her when she didn't show up at meetings where everyone else was being paid on the UFT dime.
A Migda supporter asks whether high salaried staffers like him who are paid to "do the work" should be asking underpaid paras to apologize for prioritizing their 2nd jobs and therefore not partaking in unpaid work (unlike the Unity paras in the same position).
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