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Article Seventeen — Special Complaints
It is the declared objective of the parties to encourage the prompt and informal resolution of special complaints not covered by the grievance procedure and to dispose of such complaints as they arise and to provide recourse to orderly procedures for...
Article Sixteen — Grievance Procedure
It is the declared objective of the parties to encourage the prompt and informal resolution of employee complaints as they arise and to provide recourse to orderly procedures for the satisfactory adjustment of complaints. A resolution should occur at...
Article Fourteen — Matters Not Covered
With respect to matters not covered by this Agreement which are proper subjects for collective bargaining, the Board agrees that it will make no changes without appropriate prior consultation and negotiation with the Union. The Board will continue...
Article Fifteen — Due Process and Review Procedures
A. Attendance Teacher Files Official attendance teacher files in the district or other organizational unit shall be maintained under the following circumstances. No material derogatory to an attendance teacher's conduct, service, character or...
Article Thirteen — Union Activities, Privileges, and Responsibilities
A. Restriction on Union Activities No attendance teacher shall engage in Union activities during the time he/she is assigned to duty. Members of the Chapter's negotiating committee and its special consultants shall, upon proper application, be...
Article Twelve — Transfers
Transfers of attendance teachers from one district office, superintendency or organizational unit to another district office, superintendency or organizational unit will be granted on the following basis: A. General Transfers Principals, attendance...
Article Eleven — Retention, Excessing and Layoff
A. Retention and Seniority of Substitutes Seniority shall govern in the retention of regular substitutes as follows: Persons on the regular attendance teacher eligible list who have substitute certificates have preference over all other persons for...
Article Ten — Leaves
A. Cumulative Absence Reserves and Sick Leave Attendance teachers on regular appointment reinstated after retirement will be credited with the cumulative reserves remaining to their credit upon retirement and such reserves as they accumulated as...
Article Nine — Safety and Health
A. Assistance in Assault Cases District or authorized supervisors shall report as soon as possible but within 24 hours to the Office of Legal Services and to the Chief Executive of School Safety and Planning and to the Victim Support Program that an...
Article Seven — Assignments and Facilities
A. Special Assignments Special assignments are assignments to the truancy patrol team, the court unit, and such other special assignments as may be created after September 9, 1987. Notice of special assignment positions shall be posted City-wide...
Article Eight — Education Reform
A. School-Based Management/Shared Decision-Making (SBM/SDM) The Union and the Board agree that SBM/SDM is a process in which all members of the school community collaborate in identifying issues, defining goals, formulating policy and implementing...
Article Six — Hours and Work Year
A. Schedule of Hours The daily schedule of hours for attendance teachers shall be from 8:30 a.m. to 3:40 p.m., including a lunch period of 30 minutes, except as otherwise provided in Article Seven A (Special Assignments). Effective February 2006...
Article Five — Licensure, Assignment and Appointment
A. Regularized Licensure The Board of Education shall provide for the regular licensure of attendance teacher personnel consistent with the needs of the instructional program and subject to applicable law and the by-laws of the Board of Education...
Article Four — Pension and Retirement Program
A. Annuity Fund The Board shall contribute at the rate of $400 per year to the Teachers' Retirement System to be credited monthly to the annuity account of each attendance teacher who is at the maximum step of his/her salary schedule. The Board will...
Article Three — Salaries and Benefits
Salaries and Differentials The salaries and differentials of employees covered by this agreement, and the eligibility requirements therefor, shall be as follows: Salary Schedules The following salary schedules shall apply to those employed in the...
Article Two — Fair Practices
The Union agrees to maintain its eligibility to represent attendance teachers by continuing to admit persons to membership without discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, sex or marital status, sexual orientation...
Article One — Union Recognition
The Board recognizes the Union as the exclusive bargaining representative for a unit of all those employed in the titles of Attendance Teacher and Attendance Teacher (Spanish Speaking) including regular substitutes, full term per diem substitutes...
Joint Intentions and Commitments
Enhanced student achievement based upon high standards and expectations must be the driving force behind every activity of New York City public schools. To accomplish this, we must reinvent schools so that decision making is shared by those closest...
Attendance Teacher Preamble
The Board of Education and the Attendance Teachers Chapter, United Federation of Teachers, recognize that they have a common responsibility beyond their collective bargaining relationship. The Board and the Attendance Teachers Chapter wish to declare...
Appendix F — False Accusations
December 17, 2007 Randi Weingarten President United Federation of Teachers 52 Broadway New York, NY 10002 Dear Ms Weingarten, Notwithstanding any provision of the Teacher CBA (and corresponding provisions in other UFT contracts) to the contrary, the...
Appendix E — District 79 Reorganization
Memorandum of Agreement entered into this 29th day of June 2007, by and between the Board of Education of the City School District of the City of New York (hereinafter referred to as the “BOE”)and the United Federation of Teachers, Local 2, AFT, AFL...
Appendix D — Pension Legislation
Randi Weingarten President United Federation of Teachers 52 Broadway – 14th Floor New York, NY 10004 Dear Ms. Weingarten: This letter will confirm certain mutual understandings and agreements of the parties. The parties agree to jointly support...
Appendix C — Letter-Agreement: Nurses
Lillian Roberts Executive Director District Council 37, AFSCME 125 Barclay Street New York, NY 10007 Randi Weingarten President United Federation of Teachers 52 Broadway New York, NY 10004 Re: Termination of School Health PERB Stipulation Dear Ms...
Appendix B — New Continuum Dispute Resolution
MEMORANDUM TO: All Superintendents, Executive Directors, Principals, Assistant Principals, UFT District Representatives, UFT Chapter Leaders, CSA Chairpersons FROM: Francine B. Goldstein, Chief Executive, School Programs and Support Services SUBJECT...
Appendix A — Health Insurance
In accordance with the LOBA determination and award in Case No. IA-1-85, the following shall apply: Effective July 1, 1983 and thereafter, the Employer's cost for each contract for each Employee under age 65 and for each retiree under age 65 who...
Article Thirty-One — Progressive Redesign Opportunity Schools for Excellence (PROSE)
A. Mission To achieve success and outstanding results through a truly collaborative environment for all schools at all levels among the key stakeholders responsible for educating New York City’s schoolchildren – teachers and other school-based staff...
Article Thirty — Chapter Leader Time
The chapter leader shall be allowed one day per week for investigation of grievances and for other appropriate activities relating to the administration of the Agreement and to the duties of his/her office.
Article Twenty-Nine — Chapter Schools
A. Conversion Charter Schools Pursuant to Article 56 of the New York State Education Law (the “Charter Schools Law”) an existing public school may be converted to a charter school. As modified below, nurses and therapists of a Conversion Charter...
Article Twenty-Seven — Notice-Legislative Action
The following Article is required by the Public Employees’ Fair Employment Act, as amended by Section 204a, approved March 10, 1969. It is agreed by and between the parties that any provision of this Agreement requiring legislative action to permit...
Article Twenty-Eight — Joint Committees
The Board and the Union shall establish a joint labor-management committee which shall meet on a regularly scheduled basis to discuss matters of mutual concern. Agenda items for such meetings shall be submitted in advance. The Board and the Union...
Article Twenty-Five — Conformity to Law-Saving Clause
If any provision of this Agreement is or shall at any time be contrary to law, then such provision shall not be applicable or performed or enforced, except to the extent permitted by law and any substitute action shall be subject to appropriate...
Article Twenty-Six — No-Strike Pledge
The Union and the Board recognize that strikes and other forms of work stoppages by employees are contrary to law and public policy. The Union and the Board subscribe to the principle that differences shall be resolved by peaceful and appropriate...
Article Twenty-Four — Political Check-Off
The Board will arrange for voluntary payroll deduction contributions for federal political contests in accordance with Title 2, Section 441b of the U.S. Code.
Article Twenty-Two — Exclusive Check-Off
The Board will honor, in accordance with their terms, only such written authorizations as are properly executed by employees in the units covered by this Agreement for the deduction of their dues in behalf of the Union. The Board will honor...
Article Twenty-Three — Agency Fee Deducation
The Board shall deduct from the wage or salary of employees in the bargaining units who are not members of the UFT the amount equivalent to the dues levied by the UFT and shall transmit the sums so deducted to the UFT, in accordance with Section 208...
Article Twenty-One — Matters Not Covered
With respect to matters not covered by this Agreement which are proper subjects for collective bargaining, the Board agrees that it will make no changes without appropriate prior consultation and negotiation with the Union.