Saturday, May 03, 2014

Power of Blogging

I just opened an e-mail from a UNITY hack who used to come to my former school weekly to "answer" questions and to promote the UNITY ideals.  Mostly, he told senior teachers to retire.

He began the e-mail telling members to pay no attention to what they read on blogs and newspapers about the contract.  I think we our writings in blogosphere are scaring them.  GOOD!

6 comments:

Ms. Tsouris said...

If it's the hack I think you're referring to, he blatantly lied to me about the deferring of pay for 15 years by teachers in the '70s. It was done to "save" the city from financial disaster at the time. I knew this for a fact because I worked with a number of people who were in this deferred-pay situation. He denied that this ever happened. I was quite insulted. I had a fight with him, and told him I was the real deal, not him. He took me off his coveted email propaganda list. Somehow I lasted my career without his "information" and made it to my happy retirement. What I didn't know, not getting his emails, was that he was solving the problems of rank-and-file by telling them to retire. This is what we paid union dues of up to $100 per month while working to hear??

Anonymous said...

We need to vote NO to the Contract. We need to start campaigning in force to get Michael Mulgrew out of office in 2016! He doesn't speak for the weakest members of his unions. If he doesn't do that he surely won't have any of our backs one day. Besides that this contract reeks, stinks and sucks. It pisses me off!

NYC Educator said...

It's particularly hypocritical that he asks we not pay attention to blogs before the MOE. First of all, the UFT contract committee voted up the MOE sight unseen. More to the point, he expects us to listen to him without having seen the MOE.

Anonymous said...

It's interesting because many of my collogues are well prepared to see through his messages because of the truth revealed through blog posts. The blogs I read are written by those in the trenches not by "suits" who wear UNITY pins and tell us as I have been told to personally write Michael Mulgrew if you want to express your concern. As if Mulgrew is really going to answer my email - give me a F-ing break! I'll tell you the power of blogs: the day after the contract was announced a number of veteran teachers were happy about the raises. They had no clue to delayed payments. After handed out Perdido and Eterno's blog post, they quickly saw the truth of the deal in term of the monetary aspects of it. They didn't receive that truth from the union, they got it from those in the trenches via their posts.

Anonymous said...

James Eterno for President in 2016! Let's do it this time!

Anonymous said...

Everyone needs to go over to the Facebook page and like "Vote no to the UFT Contract". Tell all your friends to like this page as well. Let's send the message loud and clear. Vote NO!