UFT Leadership–We Are Superheroes. You Are a Contrary Galoot.
Not in those people words, of study course. But they like to portray the UFT President as an infallible super hero, type of like the a person on the left. He’s dealing with down unattainable odds although you and I are whining on the sidelines. I are not able to sit through the Town Corridor presentations any much more, but James Eterno did, and kindly took notes:
We really don’t wait for some thing to materialize.
They unquestionably don’t. They created a deal, 6 months in advance of the 2018 deal, for enormous health and fitness discounts (for the town, not us). Which is why they needed to dump all city retirees into an Gain system. They fundamentally agreed to fund our have raise, a counterintuitive, silly precedent that will charge us dearly in agreement negotiations.
Other men and women just say no. That will not sit very well with us. People will yell and scream and do other matters.
This is the stereotype they trot out any time any member dares disagree with them. You “just say no” for no distinct cause. Actually, I have agreed with a great deal of items leadership did. I beloved parental leave. It is really nevertheless a excellent enhancement over the nothing at all we had formerly. I supported the 2018 agreement (with no idea the overall health savings they agreed to were being so reckless and hurtful).
Here is the variance in between me and UFT management–when I make a error I have a tendency to say, “Sorry, I produced a miscalculation.” Again when we experienced an on the net grading method, college students would appear up to me and inquire, “How come I acquired a 10 in its place of a 100?” I would say, “I type much too speedy,” and deal with it. Ended up I UFT leadership, I would say to my students, “You are a whiner, generally yelling and screaming and stating no.” Then I’d are unsuccessful the kid for no purpose.
If I acted like that, I might be unfit.
In simple fact, as anyone who may well retire soon, I was also open up to the change in retiree health and fitness care. But as soon as they unsuccessful to even examine the metropolis code, and dropped the provider, I didn’t feel these individuals ended up capable of negotiating anything worthwhile. Perfectly, I was mistaken to assistance the overall health care transform, and I was improper to assistance the 2018 contract. Shade my eyes extensive open up, and call me a nattering nabob of negativity. I’ve been blogging considering that 2005, training because 1984, and I have heard way worse.
We want to develop the best retiree program in the Usa. We will not sign except if we believe that the program is far better.
Management now distances by itself from Medicare Gain. Who can blame them, given their stunning and incredibly public failure? The simple fact is, nevertheless, there is no different for them that will pump thousands and thousands of dollars into the town like Benefit will. The other is, NOT all medical practitioners acknowledge it. And having said that they do it, it is really probable to be picked up by community physicians, just as GHI/ Emblem is. If you might be setting up to move everywhere but Florida, excellent luck.
Want transparency. Want file of prior authorizations. Want to be equipped to go to an qualified if there is a disagreement and anyone is denied.
We want a ton of things. The fact is, while, that the only purpose Edge receives revenue from the feds is that it will save them income. And it does so by denying treatments. And the people who do so are often professional. Maybe they’re expert in preserving income for the business, but they’re expert however.
Only one particular alternative if we do not change Municipal Code.
And that is mainly because you are unwilling to combat for what is actually appropriate. Evidently, you happen to be unwilling even to negotiate. That’s what occurs when you insist you happen to be right no make any difference what. That’s what transpires when you give up and refuse to combat.
There will be in-service vs retiree.
You by now told us that, in an e-mail. UFT President Michael Mulgrew wrote us declaring that if we didn’t screw the retirees, we might screw in-services instructors. That’s the classic zero-sum game, the exact same point which is kept The us from universal wellness care and a continuing strong middle course. It is really among the the really worst messages a union chief could broadcast. If you do not support us screw them, we’re gonna screw you. This is a classic appeal to fear.
But it truly is far too late for that. You screwed us all when you agreed to that well being care offer in 2018. Your task is to resolve your blunder, not blame or threaten us.
Disrespect towards folks providing facts is unacceptable. Men and women attacking chapter leaders and district reps not acceptble.
In other text, sit down, shut up, and do not dare disagree with us, at any time. This is not how you create activism or union. We build activism and union by means of collective motion, not by blindly agreeing with individuals who’ve failed us above and around, and surely not by issuing them a blank test to do it again.
UFT management sees themselves as Captain Marvel, but on this astral plane, they don’t even measure up to Captain Underpants.
