LHS RIP
Not long after Randi, a VP, a Boro Rep, and a DR visited Lafayette High School, the announcement was made that the home of Koufax was to be 86’d. Our union President stood in LHS and told our members that the Principal would go. It was a show of Unity strength. The suits paraded about. And then they left. Not to return. The staff continues to deal with the mad Principal, but they’ve been hung out to dry. In fact, it is they--or at least a large portion of them--that will be going. They will be going to test the open market system. Good luck. Gone is the prized seniority transfer. As Norm pointed out, Randi works “with” the DOE. Even though we all know that those days are gone. It’s the DOE not BOE. They don't work with anybody. Our union is pushed around and does nothing, because they've got nothing. Besides, they don’t want their suits to get messed.
At LHS, though, all things are possible: 140% on your pie chart, and dead people can work. The staff is militant and are real unionists, not the suits that parade around when called out, nor the suits that are in bed with the very BloomKlein they claim to oppose. Wildcat strike? It's 140% possible.
At LHS, though, all things are possible: 140% on your pie chart, and dead people can work. The staff is militant and are real unionists, not the suits that parade around when called out, nor the suits that are in bed with the very BloomKlein they claim to oppose. Wildcat strike? It's 140% possible.
posted by A Strong, Proud UTP Member at 12/21/2006 03:49:00 PM
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LHS Phase-Out Update:
Apparently, if you slip and fall in Lafayette, you need a psychological evaluation. At least that is what the Principal thinks. A Staff member fell and had to be taken to the hospital; nevertheless, they were refused Line of Duty, and sent downtown for a psychological evaluation.
But it's not just the teachers and UFT folk that need their heads examined. Rumors fly that the Principal will be sued by a cabinet member for creating a working environment that is so traumatic that a physician has ordered the administrator to stay home.
At LHS, though, all suffer: the staff, students, and even some AP's. But the DOE can't be wrong. The Principal is an Academy graduate.
Finally, the morning line on a job action for the heart of Regents week is 8-5. Get your wagers down.
A job action? What a novel idea.
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Sounds like a new shipment of ATR's.
Do we know how many of our colleagues are suffering this fate?
How about a number or a list?
Last the papers said it was around a thousand. Klein hired 275 new employees which made this very different from another time this was tried.
Can you imagine how demoralizing it must be to be reduced to permanent sub status?
This is an important issue and what happens to teachers at lafayette should become a key point
in any opposition to Unity. How the union can allow senior teachers to be reduced to permanent sub status is appalling.
It's conceivable that you could have an ATR with 30 years and making $100,000.
Not for a couple of years, unless they had Unity-New Action gigs on the side.
Other high schools were closed in Brooklyn too what happened there?
Good question.
Is Canarise HS on the radar screen too?
In the Contracts before 2005, teachers had prefered placement rights when a school was closed. We don't have that any longer. All we have is ATR status.
All of the high schools are on the radar screen to be closed.
See:
http://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/
"All of the high schools are on the radar screen to be closed." That's right this is not a scare tactic. You sound just like ICE.
As long as it's not YOUR school, you don't have to be scared, right?
LHS has about 150 UFT members?
SShore how many?
The other schools, too...?
But as long as it's not you, it's not a problem.
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