Friday, May 3, 2024 Posted on the ICE blog PRESS RELEASE: INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY OF EDUCATORS OF THE UFT CRITICIZES UNITY CAUCUS LEADERSHIP AND SUPPORTS INSURGENT CAMPAIGNS (New York, NY) - ...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2024/05/press-release-independent-community-of.html
> THE JUDGE DIDN'T STOP YOU FROM OFFERING CHOICE-- YOU DID. YOU HAD > THE MLC TAKING AN AMICUS ON THE SIDE OF THE CITY AGAINST THE > RETIREES -- THE UFT LAWYER CONS...
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> ...MOST OF THOSE LEADERS ARE HIRED STAFFERS, WHO, THROUGH A > TAMMANY-LIKE PATRONAGE SYSTEM, ARE SELECTED AND KEPT PRIMARILY BASED > ON THEIR LOYALTY TO TOP BRASS. IF�...
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I've been pretty lazy and am way behind in blogging. It's been over a week since I posted on the Retiree Chapter meeting . I finished my video duties at Rockaway Theatre at the Saturday night (A...
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> EXCELLENT VIDEO, MARIANNE. IT'S GOOD TO SEE AND HEAR THE RETIREE > ADVOCATE POSITION. PERSONALLY, I WAS PLEASED TO SEE THAT BENNETT, > BOBBY, AND GLORIA ARE MIDDLE OF...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2024/04/friday-night-video-update-marianne.html
> UFT's Tom Brown kept declaring how happy UFT retirees are. I > maintain it is Retiree Advocate retirees who are the happiest > because we know we are figthing the m...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2024/04/retiree-advocate-ra-shows-some-muscle.html
Another fun meeting today. I'll report on the fun day tonight but if you are around join us after the meeting at 3 at the bar White Horse Tavern for eats and drinks. Here's our handout w...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2024/04/expect-usual-fiasco-today-1-3-uft.html
> Always watch what the UFT does, not what it says -- Fiddling with > the PEP Will NOT do it --- The wisdom of Norm > Albany to send $35.9B to NY schools as ne...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2024/04/uft-bits-backdoor-sellout-deal-on.html
Saturday, April 13, 2024 The UFT holds spring chapter elections every 3 years and 2024 may turn out to be one of the more consequential elections in its over 6 decade history. I've always m...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2024/04/ufts-3-consequential-elections.html
> “RESEARCH INDICATES THAT THERE IS NO CONCLUSIVE RELATIONSHIP > BETWEEN SCHOOL GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES AND STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT,” THE > REPORT READS. IT ADDED THAT THERE ...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2024/04/time-to-end-it-and-adams-incompetence.html
FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2024 Teacher Pension Election - Why You Should Care by Norm Scott There is an upcoming election for one of the three teacher trustees of our pension system (TRS) where w...
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Repost from ICE blog : ICE met on a zoom and discussed current major trends in the UFT: Three current elections pose a threat to Unity Caucus absolute control of the UFT (except for the 7 hs ...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2024/03/ice-endorses-in-trs-retiree-and-para.html
> I'M STILL RECOVERING FROM YESTERDAY'S RETIRED TEACHER CHAPTER > MEETING AND WILL REPORT ON IT WHEN I FULLY RECOVER. MOST OF THE > MEETING WAS ABOUT HOW AFTER 50 YEAR...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2024/03/sign-paras-for-fair-contract-petition.html
Are we nearing the end of Tom Murphy's reign as chapter leader? Possible successor, former UFT VP Carmen Alvarez, will be a mainline speaker today - I will report later on the lousy bagels ser...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2024/03/today-calling-uft-retirees-join-retiree.html
I posted about the para chapter election earlier where an alt slate to Unity called UFT PARAS FOR A FAIR CONTRACT is being formed. > Unity Changes Rules for Para Election without th...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2024/03/uft-paras-for-fair-contract-resolution.html
I've always believed that the chapter elections every three years are more important than the regular UFT elections (next one is spring 2025). These chapter elections in the schools and in the fu...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2024/03/unity-changes-rules-for-para-election.html
March 14, 2024 Today is Pi Day (π) - where we celebrate the circumference of the circle being a little over 3 times its diameter. Today is also the first day we can pick up petitions, open...
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> “ SEEMS TO BE PULLING AT STRINGS, TO BE HONEST,” > PIZZITOLA SAYS. “I THINK THEY'RE GOING TO MAKE ANY ACCUSATION THAT > THEY CAN MAKE TO SEE WHATEVER STICKS.�...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2024/03/nyc-organization-of-public-service.html
> If it’s successful in this year’s election, Retiree Advocate has > its sights set on a bigger target: the overall UFT elections next > year, when the long-serving�...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2024/03/rtc-chapter-election-in-media-in-new.html
> Ben is the most qualified candidate for trustee on the NYC Teacher > Retirement System pension board. Help him get on the ballot. Vote > for him on Wed, May 8, 202...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2024/02/protect-your-pension-upcoming-trs.html
Feb. 27, 2024 Last Wednesday, ICE had another in-person meeting, the second this year: ICE Gathers - James Eterno Legacy, Retiree and TRS Election - is Tom Murphy Toast?, Whither COPE Sixt...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2024/02/ice-met-ice-talked-ice-ate-and-other.html
The past 2 weeks has been wrenching for the many James Eterno fans since he passed on Feb. 6. The past 2 days with the viewing and funeral have brought out hundreds of people. Monday night was ve...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2024/02/ice-gathers-today-james-eterno-legacy.html
SEE VIDEO HERE: HTTPS://DRIVE.GOOGLE.COM/FILE/D/127ZCDRRE7657PQWABWONWGNGQZBL5QI8/VIEW 300 RETIREES SIGN UP TO RUN A FULL SLATE IN THE CHAPTER ELECTION - AND WE HAD TO TURN PEOPLE AWAY. ...
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Randi and Bloomberg do the flip in mayoral control renewal 2009 Deja vu all over again? Mulgrew at the Feb. 2024 DA on Mayoral control – > -----when...
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The family and the many friends and fans of James Eterno have been through a ten-month wrenching experience. James' political family in ICE has had a meeting scheduled for Feb. 21 before we learn...
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2024/02/viewing-and-funeral-service-for-james.html