Thousands join rally to ‘Save Our City’
UFTers were out in force on June 16, joining thousands of parents, community members and fellow city workers at City Hall to fight for the critical services that New Yorkers depend on. “If we don’t make education a priority, we are lost,” said Alice O’Neil, chapter leader of Food and Finance HS, who came to stand up for her school and her students. Read More...
Schools brace for worst as state budget stalemate continues
With no state budget and Albany leaders passing emergency spending bills that keep the state government running, the mayor has cut school budgets for next year on the assumption that the deepest cuts to education being contemplated in Albany will come to pass. Meanwhile, teachers across the city are wondering what’s left to cut at their schools. Read More...
Mulgrew: Cuts to classrooms unnecessary
The UFT took the fight to prevent budget cuts to City Hall on June 7. “Letting these cuts go forward,” UFT President Michael Mulgrew told the City Council finance committee regarding the city’s plan to shrink school spending by up to 7 percent in many schools, “means turning our backs on children in ways not seen since 1976.” Read More...
UFTer challenges seniority foe for Assembly seat
The UFT has given its enthusiastic endorsement to Washington Irving HS chapter leader and union activist Gregg Lundahl in an effort to oust incumbent Assemblyman Jonathan Bing. The Upper East Side Assemblyman was the chief sponsor of now dead-in-the-water state legislation that would have given the DOE unchecked power to lay off whom it chooses. Read More...
