Three UFT employees earned more than city Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina’s 2017 salary of $233,430 — including union boss Michael Mulgrew, who nearly cleared $300,000 in compensation ($299,119). Michael Mulgrew is the fifth president of the United Federation of Teachers, which represents nearly 200,000 New York City public schools educators and school-related professionals, as well as child care providers, nurses, adult education instructors, retired members and other titles and organizations. In 2018, Mulgrew delivered a contract that empowers educators. Everyone knows that the one tough question was what are we going to do if the schools are deemed safe by the city but not by the Union. UFT Teacher Centers and Teacher’s Choice reimbursements retained funding.In November 2017, Mulgrew joined more than 7,000 members in a successful campaign for paid parental leave for UFT-represented employees.Mulgrew was a leading proponent of United Community Schools, which brings health and social-emotional services to school buildings together with strengthened academic support and engagement for students and their families.
59 in New Brighton where Island students start their first day of school. “I think it’s really unacceptable to not get details.”Mulgrew defended the process, saying “everyone is going to have a couple of weeks to read the entire memorandum.”Chalkbeat is a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to providing the information families and educators need, but this kind of work isn't possible without your help.
... UFT President Michael Mulgrew … We understand the immense disruption this will create for our families. In that contract, starting teacher pay jumped by almost 20 percent — nearly $10,000 — because city teachers had gone without an updated contract for five years.“Furious my beloved @UFT wants me to support a contract that doesn’t even include cost of living increases when I teach in one of most expensive housing markets in USA,” Under the contract agreement, which still needs to be ratified by the UFT’s members, the maximum salary for teachers will rise from $119,565 to $128,657. Those documents include an outline of the proposed changes and the agreement signed by UFT President Michael Mulgrew and schools Chancellor Richard Carranza, which also made several policy changes that will affect schools and classrooms. The agreement was announced Thursday afternoon and the memorandum was still being finalized in the hours before the delegate vote.“It strikes me as sort of Republican Senate power play to just ram something through before anyone has a chance to read the contract,” said Will Ehrenfeld, an American history teacher at P-Tech and a union delegate.
The UFT, one of New York's most powerful labor unions, has been without contract since 2009.
... By the new contract’s end, the starting salary of a city teacher will be $61,070, and the most experienced teachers will receive a base pay of $128,657. He believes the schools should stay open, though he has agreed to a number of additional safeguards and accommodations. Sign up for the UFT members ratified a new contract.
But we have reached the point where continuing to keep our classrooms open poses a greater lasting threat than the disruption that will result from school closings.I have met with the Mayor and outlined our reasons for urging a shutdown. “We recommend that New York City follow the example of affected jurisdictions around the region, the nation and even the world and close our public schools. Mulgrew’s #UnionProud campaign resulted in the UFT’s lowest levels of nonmembers in over 40 years.Mulgrew in 2017 worked with the Municipal Labor Committee to secure health savings for members and the continuation of no health care premiums. The NY Post covered Michael Mulgrew's Town Hall on Tuesday afternoon. In this 2015 file photo, UFT President Michael Mulgrew speaks at a press conference with the Mayor at P.S.
In 2010, Mulgrew presented Camacho-Mendez with a UFT award.
His wife Emma Camacho-Mendez, a Department of … A pamphlet called "Before You Vote" hit my school Friday and people went nuts.
"UFT President Michael Mulgrew issued a statement in response to Mayor Bill de Blasio's announcement that school buildings will open in September.UFT President Michael Mulgrew issued a statement in response to Mayor Bill de Blasio's announcement that he would plan to lay off up to 22,000 city workers.In spite of the challenges presented by COVID-19, the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) has recognized more than 180 students from New York City’s public high schools and presented each with a $5,000 Albert Shanker college scholarship.