Risk v Rewards: The Perils of Contract Negotiations As the President of the CCNY Education Alumni Association I attended the School of Education graduation – a glorious event. Hundreds of graduates in their red caps and gowns; individualized by spectacular choices of shoes, 90% women of color. A week earlier I was a speaker at the awards ceremony, I took the opportunity to remind the graduates to join the union and become active in the union, the importance of ownership of practice; the union is the collective voice of all teachers and in the current climate, the attacks on teachers and their unions are accelerating.
What is duplicitous is not telling the membership that your UFT leadership agreed to save the City 600 million dollars in health care savings in perpetuity and then not telling the members that the savings will go to the Health Stabilization Fund controlled by the UFT and DC 37 and sacrificing the retirees’ Medicare and Medicare supplement to do it.
What is duplicitous is not telling the membership that your UFT leadership agreed to save the City 600 million dollars in health care savings in perpetuity and then not telling the members that the savings will go to the Health Stabilization Fund controlled by the UFT and DC 37 and sacrificing the retirees’ Medicare and Medicare supplement to do it.
Concise and factual.