The New York Observer » United Federation of Teachers http://www.observer.com Just another WordPress site Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:04:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Double-Dipping Teachers Cost NYC More than Just Money Mayor Bloomberg has put together a list of schools that will be affected if the city has to lay off more than 4,500 teachers because of state cuts to education. Most of the schools are in poorly served neighborhoods, because that's where most of the city's youngest teachers work. If City Hall has to abide Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2011/opinion/double-dipping-teachers-cost-nyc-more-just-money A Judges’ Union? This almost sounds like a joke-a State Supreme Court justice has suggested that he and his colleagues ought to join a union in order to extract a wage increase from the state. Are you laughing yet? Well, consider this-the judge, Arthur Schack, is talking about joining the United Federation of Teachers.

If you're not laughing, Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2010/opinion/judges-union Unofficial Results: Liu and de Blasio Get More Votes Than Bloomberg The person who got the most votes in yesterday’s election?

No, not Michael Bloomberg. It’s Comptroller-elect John Liu.

According to unofficial results, Liu got 696,330 votes, with 652,511 on the Democratic line, and 43,819 on the WFP line.

The second-highest total belonged to Bill de Blasio, in the public advocate’s race. He got 672,383 votes. 627,390 came Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/politics/unofficial-results-liu-de-blasio-get-more-votes-bloomberg Aborn May Have the W.F.P., But Vance Gets 1199 and 32BJ Cy Vance’s campaign announced endorsements today from 1199, the health care workers union, and 32BJ, the city’s largest private union.

They’re major unions with well-proven Get Out the Vote operations. It’s also worth noting that they are part of the labor coalition that runs the Working Families Party which, as an umbrella organization, backed another Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/5239/aborn-may-wfp-vance-gets-1199-32bj Wood War! Who Wins Today’s Grabby Tabloid Battle For Your Eyeballs? Daily News: Hey, Madonna's not looking so hot on the cover of the Daily News this morning, is she? That is undoubtedly because the photo on the cover was shot by a News photographer who managed to get the singer, who is recuperating from a fall off a horse at the photographer Steven Klein's Hamptons Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/media/wood-war-who-wins-todays-grabby-tabloid-battle-your-eyeballs-18 Wood War! Who Wins Today’s Grabby Tabloid Battle For Your Eyeballs? The New York Post: All the troops look pretty thrilled that Barack Obama paid them a surprise visit. Sure beats all that Bette Midler-USO crap! Look at all the digital cameras they pulled out! Barack Obama may be all wrong for the military (GITMO!) but when he pays a visit, it pays. The Post knows Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/media/wood-war-who-wins-todays-grabby-tabloid-battle-your-eyeballs-10 The Art of Scripting Questions for the Council Liz Green at Gotham Schools has this slide show featuring the scripted questions handed to City Council members, by the United Federation of Teachers, at a hearing on charter schools.

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/politics/art-scripting-questions-council The Art of Scripting Questions for the Council

Liz Green at Gotham Schools has this slide show featuring the scripted questions handed to City Council members, by the United Federation of Teachers, at a hearing on charter schools.]]> http://www.observer.com/2971/art-scripting-questions-council Paterson Comes to Praise Weingarten, Sort Of Randi Weingarten waited by the phone for hours until after 2 a.m. to learn David Paterson's final decision on whether she or Kirsten Gillibrand, the last two candidates standing, would take Hillary Clinton's seat in the senate. 

It wasn't Weingarten. 

Last night, she had to wait for Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/1842/paterson-comes-praise-weingarten-kind U.F.T. to Council: Put Term Limits on the Ballot According to Elizabeth Green at Gotham Schools, the United Federation of Teachers’ executive board passed a resolution last night urging the City Council to put the term-limits extension up for a referendum, instead of passing legislation without a public vote.

This may be a boon to the forces trying to stop the Council from Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/politics/uft-council-put-term-limits-ballot Bloomberg’s Albany Team Who, exactly, are Michael Bloomberg’s friends in Albany?Since getting elected in 2001, Bloomberg has always counted on Joe Bruno and Republicans in the State Senate whenever he’s needed help in the capital, and he even gave a $500,000 donation to the Senate majority in the run-up the crucial elections later this year. But lately, Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/bloombergs-team Another Thompson (and Weingarten) Announcement on Schools Bill Thompson is making another education-related announcement today, unveiling a program that will “invest millions of dollars to create affordable housing for educators in New York City.” Joining him for the roll-out will be teachers union head Randi Weingarten. About two weeks ago, Thompson issued an audit saying the city’s education Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/thompson-and-weingarten Thompson and Weingarten Pitch for Senate Dems City Comptroller Bill Thompson is co-chairing a fund-raiser for state Senate Democrats tomorrow night with Randi Weingarten, the president of the United Federation of Teachers, which is one of the more vocal unions in the city and an organization whose help will be sought after by just about everyone in 2009.

(Thompson, as most of Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/two-seats Weingarten Goes for the Conservative Vote There's a "hostile anti-union climate in our city--and especially at the D.O.E." according to campaign literature from Randi Weingarten, who is running for re-election as the president of the United Federation of Teachers. Her opponent in the race, according to Weingarten's literature is a group that is "running on a combined slate headed by Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/03/weingarten-goes-for-the-conservative-vote/ Events for November 4-5, 2006 (If I missed any events, email me!) On Saturday at 10 a.m., Hillary Clinton, Andrew Cuomo, Charlie Rangel and almost everybody else will be supporting the Democratic ticket at a rally at 2155 Adam Clayton Powell Blvd. At 12:30, Hillary speaks at the 9th Annual Parent Conference of the United Federation of Teachers at the Read More

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