PFT members to vote on contract extension tomorrow
PFT members vote tomorrow night on contract extension
PFT members to vote on contract extension tomorrow
Dafney Tales
Update: PFT officials aren't mum with just the press apparently. A PFT member tweeted me minutes ago that members have no idea what they're being asked to vote on at their meeting tomorrow night.
PFT spokeswoman Barbara Goodman said: "They will be informed at the meeting. Jerry will do a presentation about what the proposal is," she said.
Goodman said officials have kept details of the proposal under wraps that even she is without many details.
"They really don't want it out," she said.
But she assures that members will have ample time to discuss the matter. After discussion, members will take a voice vote, although that method is not entirely reliable, she said. Members will also vote by ballot, which will be administered by the American Arbitrators Association.
PFT members will vote tomorrw night on the contract extension agreed upon between union and district officials last week. The meeting, scheduled for 8:30p.m., at the Liacouras Center, is open to PFT members only.
PFT President Jerry T. Jordan will be available to the media immediately following the meeting in the Fox-Gittis Room.
Neither the union nor school district confirmed last week whether the deal includes concessions. The district has been seeking $75 million in concessions from its five unions to help close a $629 million budget gap. Jordan had adamantly refused to renegotiate.
He said in August that he refused to discuss concessions while controversial Supt. Arlene Ackerman was in charge. No telling if he's changed his mind now that Acting Supt. Leroy Nunery is in charge temporarily.
Ample time would be a few days to read the actual contract instead of a highly biased set of bullet-points. We will be forced to vote on this contract without reading the full document as we were last time. Whatever we vote, Jerry Jordan will pronounce the contract ratified - also what was done last time. I had been enthusiastic about this when I took the words "contract extension" at face value. Now it looks like more manipulation by our so-called leader. If this is the case, he must be voted out. We're a bunch of folks with master's degrees and a wide breadth of knowledge. The PFT executive board doesn't know better than we do what's good for us.— Jame- Why does the PFT leadership believe that its dues paying members are either too stupid or too untrustworthy to get details of the plan before hand?
Concessions my be inevitable. Most teachers realize that. Why cannot we get the agreement ahead of time to reflect upon what our overlords have agreed to?— poogie - boy these teachers are gulible,why did you go to college to get dumb??— jok
- The members of CASA, the administrator's union, first voted no to concessions until after they saw what the PFT would be asked to give up. Then the School District, and CASA leadership, bullied them into a second vote to give up their January raises and other benefits. Now, the PFT gives up no raises or benefits. CASA = SUCKERS !!!— cgraham
