HeyJaredNick Bacon
Member of UFT Executive Board and Co-Chair of New Action Caucus
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Freedom of Thought in the UFT (opens the original)
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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote two posts about City Council Bill 1008 and related matters around retiree healthcare, focusing on what the bill might actually mean for in-service members.While a few commenters raised thoughtful points, many long-form rebuttals appeared to be in bad faith. Instead of engaging with the actual substance, they skipped straight to speculating about my political motives. For the record, my motives were to analyze whether a popular cause across the UFT opposition—regard
Should the UFT Support Bill 1008? (opens the original)
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There has been a growing push within non-Unity UFT circles, particularly among retirees, for the passage of City Council Bill 1008. As the successor to Intro 1096, the bill would codify the level of medical benefits provided by GHI SeniorCare as of 2021. It would also reverse the current copay structure and, most importantly, make it much more difficult to move retirees into Medicare Advantage (MAP) without their consent.There is a very strong case for the bill. Retirees were promised healthcare
Like it or Not, the UFT Can’t Work with NYCOPSR (opens the original)
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For the last few years, some voices within the UFT opposition have called for formal ties or alignment with Marianne Pizzitola and the NYC Organization of Public Service Retirees (NYCOPSR). The argument is that Pizzitola and her organization have played a singular role in challenging efforts to move retired teachers and other municipal workers into Medicare Advantage plans and in resisting changes to retiree health benefits. Consequently, many believe the UFT retiree division—and even the UFT it
Mayor Mamdani, Let’s Respect Paraprofessionals (opens the original)
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration is suing to block the RESPECT Check Act, a unanimously passed City Council law that would have provided New York City public school paraprofessionals with $10,000 in addition to their normal salaries. The administration says the law undermines collective bargaining; the Council and the UFT say the payment is a legally drafted, urgently needed response to chronically low paraprofessional pay and staffing shortages. But let’s be honest. Suing to stop payments
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