Please Hold All Tickets 'Till Results Are Official
UFT ratifies new contract by a 9-to-1 margin
Dec 14, 2006 5:10 PM
UFT members overwhelmingly ratified a new two-year contract with the city, according to the American Arbitration Association, which counted the ballots on Dec. 14. Among the 78,000 UFT members who cast ballots, 90 percent voted to approve the new deal.
“We are very pleased about the overwhelming number of members who voted and the overwhelming support for this contract,” UFT President Randi Weingarten said. “It provides real stability and certainty for educators and the students they serve and a much-needed raise for all our members that gets our most senior teachers to a milestone $100,000.”
The new contract was negotiated almost a year before the current pact expires. The new deal, which runs from Oct. 13, 2007 to Oct. 31, 2009, will give every teacher at least a 7.1 percent raise over that period and will boost the salary of the most experienced teachers to more than $100,000.
The pact – which includes a $750 cash payment payable in January 2007 and a new longevity increase for educators who stay in the system for five years – brings the total cash value of the raise to more than 8 percent.
New York City public school teachers will have received salary increases of 40 percent or more between 2002 and 2009.
Dec 14, 2006 5:10 PM
UFT members overwhelmingly ratified a new two-year contract with the city, according to the American Arbitration Association, which counted the ballots on Dec. 14. Among the 78,000 UFT members who cast ballots, 90 percent voted to approve the new deal.
“We are very pleased about the overwhelming number of members who voted and the overwhelming support for this contract,” UFT President Randi Weingarten said. “It provides real stability and certainty for educators and the students they serve and a much-needed raise for all our members that gets our most senior teachers to a milestone $100,000.”
The new contract was negotiated almost a year before the current pact expires. The new deal, which runs from Oct. 13, 2007 to Oct. 31, 2009, will give every teacher at least a 7.1 percent raise over that period and will boost the salary of the most experienced teachers to more than $100,000.
The pact – which includes a $750 cash payment payable in January 2007 and a new longevity increase for educators who stay in the system for five years – brings the total cash value of the raise to more than 8 percent.
New York City public school teachers will have received salary increases of 40 percent or more between 2002 and 2009.
posted by A Strong, Proud UTP Member at 12/14/2006 07:55:00 PM
30 Comments:
$750 bucks?
Max has that lost in his sofa.
woopdie do
One of "New York's Brightest" who teaches in my school thought we were supposed to get $7,500. And you wonder why we accept one bad contract after another. God help us.
Now is the time for ICE-TJC to diligently pursue other potential supporters. There were approximately 7,000 disgruntled members who voted in the 2005 Contract ratification but didn't bother to vote this time around. Why was the turnout lower this year? Some people have apparently given up in disgust and we need to give them a reason to vote for the opposition in the 2007 UFT election. Also, there were over 32,000 members who voted against the 2005 giveback laden Contract. It is our job now to reach each and every one of them and give them our alternative view on how this union should be run.
We believe this Contract was approved by an overwhelming margin not as a vote of confidence for Randi Weingarten and the Unity machine but as a sign of resignation that we can't do any better under Unity-New Action leadership.
Unity-New Action's main strategy is to wait for DC 37 to settle up with the city and go in and say, "Me too," and get the same deal based on pattern bargaining. Pattern bargaining means that when one city union settles on a contract to start a new round of collective bargaining with the city, then all other city unions subsequently receive the same pattern settlement. If DC 37 sets a lousy pattern, then Randi will again trade away more of what's left of our Contract to get us some money as she did in 2002 and 2005.
It's up to ICE-TJC in the next few months to get the message to everyone that we can organize to improve UFT member salaries as well as teaching and learning conditions without trading away our rights.
ICE-TJC will never overcome their biggest obstacle which is their own incompetence.
I wish there was a threat to the Unity domination of our union but there isn't.
ICE will continue to windbag about the treatment of teachers in Mexico, Fiji and the Netherlands while TJC's nonentity candidate fades further into the wall paper.
Wouldn't it have been wise to hit the ground running in September?
Why are they always side tracked by every piece of inconsequential nonsense that rolls down the tube?
Why? Because they are rank amateurs and incapable of playing in the same league as Unity.
Together they have blown the only real chance any group has ever had to run what could have been an effective campaign.
Unity will win- bad contracts and all -because they know how the game is played leaving the amateurs, retirees and windbags to wonder what went wrong.
Max, I thought you were an ICEr too. Why the change of heart?
It's amazing how ICE is always mocking Leo Casey for Darfur, etc., when they continually do the same thing (with Mexico, for example).
Both ICE and TJC have failed to win the vote that matters, and that is not the most recent contract, but the upcoming election. As usual, they waste time, and credibility, arguing over a done deal.
Max is right. Unity runs the show because they play the game best.
Kit who?
ICEr!? I'm no ICEr, dildoid- I'm Fuckin' UTP! When I want to fix the Irish Ferry system THEN I'll call ICE.
Max, Max, Max. You're mad Max. It's understandable. ICE/TJC drop the ball, and they expect YOU to go around cheering for them.
(You are too busy, though, going around yanking other men's ex-wives upper arms. You are a horrid little man, Max, with a horrible little mind.)
But ICE is the ADD wing of the Unity opposition.
TJC? Who dat? They just get ignored.
Unity? We be in their clutches. Who gonna help us?
KitKat?
C'mon
Hail UTP!
ICE and TJC dropped the ball. Instead of assaulting us with useless nonsense about the Third World, they should have capitalized on the discontent that exists within our ranks. The silence has been deafening, the inaction alarming. Max and the waffle iron are right. How can we expect results from a bunch of left wing losers. Workers of the world unite- my ass.
What's wrong you people? At least Ice and TJC are trying to improve our union while all you do is criticize everything. Don't you care about the teachers?
The teachers are THE PROBLEM.
With no momentum, no visible platform, no plan and no action, how can ICE and TJwhatever expect to accomplish anything? We need a bold plan, men of steel, and harsh unbending terror to purge our union of its weaker elements. Unfortunatly the opposition have proven to be unfit for the job. We are waiting for providence to send us a leader. We need a man against time. The one who can unite us against our ememies.
I know what we need. A leader who will lead and not worry about people getting in the way. It is all about a leader and loyal followers.
We need a group like, hmmm, how about Unity? It fits the bill perfectly. They have the leader. They have co-opted New Action, the long-time opposition. Randi is brilliant. We will never find anyone out there like her. We might as well shut this operation down now and join Unity, or at least New Action. They're looking for a few good men. And New Action and we have so much in common. No women to get in the way of progress. But then again, Randi is a wo-wo-wo -man.
Hopefully Unity will save the UTP just as they saved Lafayette High School and Brooklyn Tech.
They did a great job there.
Put in your teeth and sick 'em Randi.
You guys are the missing link. A right wing alterative to ICE and TJC. Just stick to the issues you care about. If you are not happy with the opposition do something instead of bitching. It is still not too late to run a slate.
I love this site!! I just can't get enough of this! Go UTP!
MISSING LINK? Christ, we may still be dragging our knuckles on the ground be we DO stick to the subject unlike ICE.
Why don't you start a slate? Why doesn't someone do something besides tell other people what they should be doing?
You're right. The UTP is the only opposition that at least tries to get something done at the the DA, etc.
The rest are an empty think tank.
An empty think tank, minus the think.
I think the UTP has it right. It's next to impossible to get rid of Unity and the best we can hope for are some reforms made within the existing structure.
You can get reforms. Just ask Randi and she'll form a committee to talk them to death.
I want changes to take place in the union but sadly ICE and TJC have shown they just are not up to the task. It seems our only hope is through reform and that is going to be a tough up hill struggle.
What happened to the DR vote?
You guys have no faith in teachers. I think Unity will be voted out due to the last two contracts.
Teachers have long memories.
This is brutal.
Unity voted out...?
That's hilarious.
I don't have any faith in teachers at all.
I hear that.
The 40% "raise" mentioned on this post contains at least 10 points for time, and fails to consider all the extra tasks like hall patrol, the sixth class (the one that isn't a class). It also fails to take into account the seniority and transfer options we bargained away for less than cost of living.
Perhaps you'd have more faith in teachers if we could somehow communicate to them what a raise actually is. Many have been teaching for such a brief time that they've never seen one up close before.
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