tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5477669229969550311.post3694581826786614121..comments2024-03-12T11:58:18.978-04:00Comments on Accountable Talk: Stupidity as a StrategyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5477669229969550311.post-48396808298234036202010-05-26T07:01:18.001-04:002010-05-26T07:01:18.001-04:00I have been begging people for years now to figure...I have been begging people for years now to figure out that the UFT suits do more harm to us than the DoE.<br /><br />They pull money out of our pitiful salaries to buy suits, jewelry, cars, vacations. <br /><br />The UFT suits think they're "management," despise the teachers whom they live off of, rob us blind, and happily sleep with the DoE.<br /><br />A federal anti-racketeering lawsuit needs to be brought against them. Each of them, including Weingarten, needs to be stripped of their monetary assets and imprisoned.<br /><br />It is plain, clear, obvious if you will only evaluate what has been done to us over the years.<br /><br />DSAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5477669229969550311.post-6895984401088999472010-05-23T13:05:36.175-04:002010-05-23T13:05:36.175-04:00I think to get perspective people should read the ...I think to get perspective people should read the kahlenberg on Shanker who no one would ever claim was dumb. Kahlenberg loves Shanker. Who helped fund the book? Eli Broad. <br /><br />Ask yourself why Broad - the chief ed deformer - would fund that book designed to make the ed deforms palatable.<br /><br />If you don't read it all - start with Shanker's support for the Nation at Risk, through his alliance with the CLintons in Ark - did you know that he Shanker has Hillary debate Linda Hammond-Darling at the AFT convention in 1985 - Hillary was defending retesting for teachers to hold their license. <br /><br />Then how Shanker and Reagan really got along on education stuff - and foreign policy. How Shanker supported just about all the stuff in preliminary form that has come about. His idea for charter schools is now talked about as him wanting to give teachers a chance to run schools but when I tried to convinve Randi to do that around 1998 she revealed the distrust she (and ShAnker too) and maybe disdain - for rank and file teachers. <br /><br />Thus my point that instead of being our advocates the AFT/UFT play the part of the middleman - brokering deals to soften us up for the ed deformers. What do they get? Power and control. ANd they are let alone. No calls for end to agency shops so they get their dues.<br /><br />IF CORE wins in Chicago as a militant new unionism, watch the attacks the union will undergo by political, press and even the AFT and AFL-CIO to try to undermine them. <br /><br />The only way they can withstand such an assault is to have the total loyalty of the members- which requires an open and democratic union - the furthest thing from the AFT/UFT.<br /><br />No these people are not dumb at all. MAybe somewhat inept in how they deal with being VIchy - and by the way. Vichy used to tell the French people how much worse it would be if they didn't cooperate with the Naziis. Their argument being - who do you prefer be in charge - at least we can try to mitigate the worst of what they want to do. <br /><br />The way of thinking of the UFT/AFT is Vichy-like.ed notes onlinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15018047869059226777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5477669229969550311.post-25710493225875870112010-05-20T17:39:34.053-04:002010-05-20T17:39:34.053-04:00Spot on, Accountable. They know EXACTLY what they...Spot on, Accountable. They know EXACTLY what they're doing.<br /><br />They sent Mulgrew to my school to sell the '07 contract extension of the odious '05 contract (I work at a vocational school.)<br /><br />He blustered his way through all the objections (lost days before Labor Day? Just take those days off!!! can't grieve a letter in your file anymore? don't get a letter in your file!!!)<br /><br />By the end of the session three people, including myself, stood up, called him a tool and a bully and walked out.<br /><br />I have felt the same way about him since. I tried to keep my mind open when he took over from Weingarten, but I knew what he was like in the past and I saw no reason why he would change now.<br /><br />And the way he sounded during the teacher eval press conference reminded me EXACTLY how he sounded during the time he came to my school.<br /><br />Like he doesn't give a shit about teachers, he will say and do anything to stay in power, and he is very good at bullying teachers into submission.<br /><br />That's what we have seen the once he was safely elected.<br /><br />And I expect we will see even more in the coming weeks. Furloughs to avert layoffs? Victory for teachers (even if it means $3000-$5000 less a year but Klein still gets to hire 10 new deputy chancellors and pay $5 million to the New Teacher Project)!!! 0% raises but no givebacks from Bloomberg like days or time or rights? Victory for teachers!!!<br /><br />Yeah, he is in cahoots with Bloomberg and Klein, all right. And it's paying off big time for his Unity cronies and for him. For the rest of us, we will work longer and harder for less money after the pay cuts and salary step freezes and still have less job security and no forseeable pay raises in the future.<br /><br />Heckuva job, Mulgrew!!!reality-based educatorhttp://perdidostreetschool.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com