The Strategy Behind Mulgrew's Betrayal Of The UFT Rank-And-File

Michael Fiorillo:

This episode shows, as if any more proof were needed, that the UFT/AFT/NYSUT now exist to co-implement programs like this, and are content to help manage the workforce, as long as the dues keep coming in, officers keep their salaries and double pensions, and the Mulgarten's of the world get an occasional pat on the head from the Overclass.

At best, the UFT is now a kind of in-house ombudsman, going to bat for teachers now and then, but always within the premises and confines of The Beast. Rather than existing as an independent working class institution, the union is rapidly devolving into a parasitic arm of management. This new evaluation system, generated by the lie that the old system had failed and was in crisis, may be the crowning turd of their many betrayals.

In their self-interested delusion, they seem to think they'll be allowed to continue riding the gravy train forever as an offshoot of the Human Relations and "Talent Management" departments of the DOE. What they don't seem to realize, or are incapable of imagining a response to, is that the moment they have outlived their usefulness and are perceived to be sufficiently weakened (by the very policies they've helped implement), the so-called reformers will go for their throats, too.

That outcome is being planned at this very moment, if it hasn't already been formulated.

Yeah, Randi and Michael, you'll get that ride on Bloomberg's (or Broad's, or Gates', or...) private jet, but soon enough they'll eject you over the water.

They may get us first, but they will get you, too.