ATRs: Leaflet the delegates @ Wed's DA: Vote No on the UFT contract

ACRs/ATRs, other excesseed UFT members:
Leaflet the special UFT Delegate Assembly (special location) at the NY Hilton in Midtown:
1335 Ave of the Americas (west side of 6th Ave between 53rd St & 54th St, near E, F, M, N, Q, R line stations)
Wednesday, 5/7, 4 to 6 pm
(The MORE Caucus, which is supporting the ATR cause, is leafletting there as well with their leaflet.)

*Click this link for Web access to the print-ready landscape-formatted leaflet:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b2HI9Rs04WdNWrkKtCRea1VRYGJ0XfAXwDSYU-GDI8o/pub
*Version addressed to UFT delegates:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AwfHzIEKyVHY30kJ3IGihWbed6hrMiN_SA1YmtseosY/pub
*UFT's Pay Raise Schedule drawn out to 2020, plus issue of disparate treatment of ATRs:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qHdwRJF1hAyQgmbKiSlaw3bzrI41UmwBvh1MrmnbOKc/pub
*Drawn-out raise schedule Illustrated in a graphical form:
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKR4GtrQKRf5Qtcn-DKS0TaR5Y0Hygbvw1jtbofAuiD97kDHS0nFS4m00w0Ur8H4KVs2mlvaE-HM-hJJMSTc9Qwxag35ry6e7Djn8yXpSdI6XZAH158UMCHVTTTX1yReu9CbmN5CSTrW2A/s1600/AContract4PuttingOffRetro.gif

Fellow UFT members, ask your delegates,

“DELEGATES, CAN YOU AFFORD TO SUPPORT THIS CONTRACT?”

In the new expedited process an ATR's career can be cut short promptly:

The charge from just two principals that he or she is “unprofessional” (which is not spelled out) will end their tenure, without due process.

–--Can we really trust that principals will not create frivolous trumped up charges?

How safe are you from becoming an ATR?

--Is your license the next to be eliminated?

--Is your school losing enrollment?

--Is your school getting a co-location?

--Do you think your principal likes you –now?

And why are we agreeing with merit pay and with putting 200 schools outside of union protection?

Why does 75% of retro pay does not come until October 2018?

"These [ATRs] are good teachers, mostly from closing schools. But rather than create a win-win situation, the system - despite repeated requests - refused to deal with these issues."              --UFT then president Randi Weingarten, April 10, 2008 – How far have we come from then?

Vote NO on the UFT contract! ATR Chapter Committee atrnyc.blogspot.com

THE DOE'S TEACHER RETENTION PLAN: HOLD OFF 3/4 OF RETRO PAYMENT FOR 4-6 YEARS

Here are the true details about the proposed contract as reported by UFT Leadership on May 1, 2014 to the negotiating committee:

Our Pay Raises

Money

These are the raises that we will get on paper (what the press is reporting):

'09 --4%

'10 --4%

'11 --0% ($1,000 signing

bonus credited to 2011)

'12 --0%

'13 --1%

'14 -1%

'15 -1%

'16 --1.5%

'17 --2.5%

'18 --3%

However, the money that is owed to us from previous years will ONLY arrive beginning in the

year 2015. It will work like this:

• 9/1/14- 2% (which includes the raise due 5/1/13 and 5/1/14 at 1% each):

• 5/1/15 - 3% (2% from our leftover raises in '09-'10 plus the 1% in the contract)

• 5/1/16 - 3.5% (2% from our leftover raises in '09-'10 plus the 1.5% in the contract)

• 5/1/17 - 4.5% (2% from our leftover raises in '09-'10 plus the 2.5% in the contract)

• 5/1/18 - 5% (2% from our leftover raises in '09-'10 plus the 3% in the contract)

• We would receive the $1,000 signing bonus sometime early next Fall

Our Retropay

That comes over 5 years and doesn't begin until 2015. We will receive a percentage of what

we are owed in one payment per year:

• 10/1 2015- 12.5% (lump sum)

• 10/1 2016 - Nothing

• 10/1 2017 - 12.5% lump sum

• 10/1 2018 - 25% lump sum

• 10/1 2019 - 25% lump sum

• 10/1 2020 - 25% lump sum

ATRs

Whoever accepts a position at a school, will go right back into the pool if a principal *says* they acted in an unprofessional manner. If an ATR is sent back into the reserve pool twice, then he/she will be fired in a 50 day time frame via a 3020-a hearing that will last no more than 1 day.