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UFT: Are you ready to lose GHI-CBP?
It's official. The GHI-CBP we know is no longer in the running for proposed UFT health plans. Are you ready to be switched to a cheaper alternative?
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Nick Bacon
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Statement from Bennett Fischer, Chapter Leader Elect of the UFT Retired Teachers Chapter
A response to UFT prez Mulgrew’s announcement that UFT will withdraw its support of City's Medicare Advantage plan and from the ongoing negotiations on…
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Bennett Fischer
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Op-Ed: How the Proposed Contract Attacks Our Pension and Healthcare Benefits
Jeremy Shahom, Mathematics Teacher at Stuyvesant High School breaks down the newly proposed UFT contract. The math ain't mathing!
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The 'theft' of the UFT’s Retiree Chapter Facebook Group by Mulgrew’s Unity caucus: Open letter to UFT top leadership
After losing unilateral control of the UFT Retiree chapter, Mulgrew’s Unity administrative caucus seeks to obstruct union business in true sore loser…
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Dan Alicea
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Urgent Call To Action: Tell City and union bosses to — Get Out of Our Pockets! End Retiree Copays, Pass Intro 1096
Join this letter/email campaign by NYC retirees and active workers seeking to end the erosion of our benefits.
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UFT's Mulgrew caught in another 'BIG LIE' at yesterday's Retiree Teachers Chapter (RTC) meeting
Yesterday, October 26th, at the Retired Teachers Chapter (RTC) meeting, UFT president, Michael Mulgrew, in a sign of clear desperation sought to…
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Educators of NYC
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UFT Members Win: A Better Contract’s Daniel Alicea Defends Free Speech, Beats Back Union’s California Lawyers
Unity UFT leadership’s attempt to shut down UFT members’ free speech was thwarted in domain dispute as Alicea, pro-se, beats back corporate lawyers…
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Educators of NYC
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Examining the 2023 UFT contract draft - a 'tentative' analysis
The new UFT contract draft is not out yet. But the promotional materials are. I analyze them here. Repost of the New Action blog at…
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Nick Bacon
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Good News on UFT Retiree Healthcare: Judge Frank Grants TRO for Switch to MAP
Repost from New Action/ UFT Blog at https://newaction.org
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Nick Bacon
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Mulgrew and UFT Unity, Not MLC, Initiated Health Cuts
Claims otherwise are false. -- By Arthur Goldstein and Daniel Alicea
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Retirees Win! – For-Profit Mulgrewcare Plan Quashed Again
Judge Frank rules once again in favor of NYC Retirees. City retirees cannot be forced into Medicare Advantage plans. Repost of the NAC blog at…
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Nick Bacon
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Tonight— Don’t Miss This Week’s Powerful Episode of Talk Out of School on WBAI 99.5 FM
Tune in tonight at 7 pm on your radio or online at wbai.org
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