"The United Federation of Teachers, after the vote of the chapter, will move to close temporarily any schools where there's a clear and present life-threatening danger to the students and the staff until such time as safety can be assured." So read a resolution passed by the UFT’s Delegate Assembly… in 1992. The issue then was guns & gang violence. Last week, in response to the reopening plan being imposed by Mayor Bill de Blasio, the United Federation of Teachers, New York City’s teacher (or more precisely, something like certified instructional and support staff union) came closer to a strike than I ever thought I’d see. Strike talk had been rumbling among the teachers for at least a week, when
The UFT Strike that wasn't (yet)
The UFT Strike that wasn't (yet)
The UFT Strike that wasn't (yet)
"The United Federation of Teachers, after the vote of the chapter, will move to close temporarily any schools where there's a clear and present life-threatening danger to the students and the staff until such time as safety can be assured." So read a resolution passed by the UFT’s Delegate Assembly… in 1992. The issue then was guns & gang violence. Last week, in response to the reopening plan being imposed by Mayor Bill de Blasio, the United Federation of Teachers, New York City’s teacher (or more precisely, something like certified instructional and support staff union) came closer to a strike than I ever thought I’d see. Strike talk had been rumbling among the teachers for at least a week, when