tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post2109049751203106979..comments2024-03-29T06:21:22.494-04:00Comments on Perdido Street School: Teachers Unions Political Strategy In Tatters - Isn't It Time For A New One?reality-based educatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01712885202661371924noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-115729178819596142014-11-06T23:55:33.146-05:002014-11-06T23:55:33.146-05:00Why would a Vichy-like leadership as much lined up...Why would a Vichy-like leadership as much lined up with the deformers change a strategy that's working for the deformers? Especially since they are guaranteed their slice of the pie for cooperating? There won't be a rank and file strategy until the rank and file activates itself and starts creating some noise. A few voices in the wilderness don't reach the falling trees.ed notes onlinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15018047869059226777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-56125593437557821542014-11-06T14:58:26.178-05:002014-11-06T14:58:26.178-05:00It really should not be a surprise our strategy is...It really should not be a surprise our strategy is in tatters, it is not our (rank and file) strategy. This was the brain child of Andy Palotta, Randi and Michael Mulgrew. I do not even include Karen Magee in this, her role was more of the useful idiot. Can anybody point to a clear strategic success that Mulgrew, Weingarten or Palotta have delivered. They cannot even articulate a tweet about their strategy without the rank and file going berserk, because they have stopped representing us a long time ago. This reminds me of Einstein's definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. <br /><br />We are going to have to create networks and caucuses in the state and national affiliates to reclaim our agenda, inform and engage the rank and file or it is just a matter of time when unions and the profession I love are just memories.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-12040562816700811002014-11-06T12:21:33.878-05:002014-11-06T12:21:33.878-05:00How do we get this done? Hold our vote/cope money...How do we get this done? Hold our vote/cope money? We need an uproar!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-55674468805867126342014-11-06T12:15:05.162-05:002014-11-06T12:15:05.162-05:00Good luck voting them out of office. They have rig...Good luck voting them out of office. They have rigged the game so it is virtually impossible to vote them out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-84875607906926470582014-11-06T08:45:12.121-05:002014-11-06T08:45:12.121-05:00Amen. I think I like the idea of union leadership ...Amen. I think I like the idea of union leadership made up of full time teachers not lounge lizards screwing around on their ipads all day and flitting to different corners of the state for meetings where the refuse to answer questions. Doesn't PJSTA President Beth Dimino still teach? I think we need that connection and we need leadership's neck on the same block as the rest of us. Messner, Magoo, Palotta, Weingarten et al are useless. They work to fatten their own wallets and feather their own nests. They have no skin in our game. And that's a huge problem that leads to a lot of cowardly collaboration in place of bare knuckled unionism. No more executives, managers, coasters and loafers. The job is too damned important to be filled with idlers and dead weight. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08125018774502675730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-82478011072518163782014-11-06T08:44:12.895-05:002014-11-06T08:44:12.895-05:00Randi has been a collaborator for over a decade. ...Randi has been a collaborator for over a decade. But teachers across the country don't realize this because she wasn't the president of their local. However, if you look at what she has done to teachers on a national level via the contracts with DC, Colorado, Newark and of course New York, you might understand it. She decided to "give in" to the political climate rather than fight it thinking it would make her a hero. She joined the Reformers on even sat on their board of directors. During this same time, she reorganized the way the UFT did business making it near impossible for other factions to win seats at the table. She changed the way the DA operates and worst of all, she no longer allowed chapters to vote for their DR. Instead she wanted complete control. Basically Unity turned into the Mafia and made people sign blood oaths. So the real culprits of those teachers who turned into collaborators themselves by backing this totalitarian leader. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com