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🚨 FIX TIER 6 NEWS 🚨
Tier 6 reform has been passed in the state budget — and UFT members made it happen.
This legislation will allow UFT Tier 6 members to retire at 58 instead of 63 with an unreduced pension. That’s five years earlier than before. A MAJOR step forward for
UFT delegates voted to endorse Mamdani because they believe he is the best candidate in the race to advance our union’s agenda: to protect our premium-free health care, fix Tier 6, pass the “RESPECT check” bill, implement the class size law, revamp mayoral control and more.
“Why can't we attract and retain teachers the way we used to? We know the answer: We’re forcing them to earn less & work longer. We’re telling them the bargain they made to work in public service & have the benefit of a public pension is being taken away.” - @ZohranKMamdani
.@UFT president Michael Mulgrew calls on parents to join teachers to demand @NYCMayor close schools now. If not, @UFT plans to go to Supreme Court tomorrow to force @NYCSchools to comply with state health mandate to close schools when there is a positive case
Mulgrew: We will ask the Supreme Court tomorrow to order NYC to start complying with the state-mandated process for closing schools. And we will file a complaint with the Department of Labor for unsafe working conditions. #CLOSENYCPUBLICSCHOOLS
Our city, state and nation needs the financial support in the latest Covid stimulus package. This is what government is supposed to do - work on behalf of ordinary families to help us get through dark times. Thank you, @SenSchumer and all who got this vital relief through.
Following the UFT Delegate Assembly's vote to endorse him in November's general election, NYC Democratic mayoral nominee @ZohranKMamdani described his campaign as a movement rooted in organized labor.
UFT President Michael Mulgrew announces that no NYC school should open unless it meets all of the criteria of the school safety report being released today.
