Posted on Mar 03, 2015 by LaborPains.org Team
Back in 2005, then-United Federation of Teachers (UFT) President Randi Weingarten, now president of the national American Federation of Teachers (AFT), opened a (unionized) charter school in Brooklyn. She stated its purpose: “Our schools will show real, quantifiable student achievement and with those results, finally dispel the misguided and simplistic notion that the union contract […]
Posted on May 21, 2014 by LaborPains.org Team
The conventional wisdom on the recent deal between New York City and Michael Mulgrew’s United Federation of Teachers (UFT) is that it was a good compromise for both parties. Mulgrew agreed to some concessions on work rules and the UFT got some (but not all) of the “back pay” it wanted. However, when the UFT […]
Posted on Mar 19, 2014 by LaborPains.org Team
News from New York, the city whose most vulnerable kids are under siege from Randi Weingarten and the American Federation of Teachers: A new Quinnipiac Poll finds a majority of New Yorkers disapprove of the education policies of Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has followed Randi’s radical agenda chapter and verse. While de Blasio’s overall […]
Posted on Mar 14, 2014 by LaborPains.org Team
Today, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten will be in Kiev rallying for the interim government of Ukraine, far from the controversies she left in New York. We’re not sure how this helps teachers or students in the U.S., but if she wants to support the Ukrainians we suppose that’s her prerogative. It’s a […]
Posted on May 28, 2013 by Center for Union Facts
Local 983 of District Council 37, American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) AFL-CIO, pays its president, Mark Rosenthal, over $156,000 per year, according to the New York Post. It seems like members might not receive much work for all that dues money. The Post alleges: The 400-pound president of Local 983 of […]
Posted on Feb 25, 2013 by Center for Union Facts
Huffington Post: Armored Car Drivers Try To Unionize In New York City Labor wants to make greater inroads into security, a field with traditionally low unionization rates. Bloomberg: N.Y. MTA Labor Talks Drag as Union Fights Part-Time Bus Drivers Union officials of the Transport Workers Union Local 100 continue to urge ignorance of reality as unionized drivers continue […]
Posted on Jan 21, 2013 by Center for Union Facts
Rhode Island Legislators Literally On The Union Payroll Although plenty of politicians are effectively on labor’s payroll thanks to the massive amount of money that unions funnel into political campaigns, two Rhode Island state senators have taken things to a whole new level. Senate Majority Leader Dominick Ruggerio and Senator Frank Ciccone both pulled in six figures from the […]
Posted on Jan 15, 2013 by Center for Union Facts
New York City’s yellow school bus drivers are taking the concept of wanting what they can’t have to a whole new level. The Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 1181 has authorized a strike that it says will begin on Wednesday morning. The ATU is demanding that the city include special employee protections in the competitive bidding that […]
