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UFT and Parents Tell City Council Education Chair Eva Moskowitz What They Think About Union Work Rules
Nov. 20, 2003 City Hall Hearing on Work Rules: UFT is given Support by Jim Callahan ![]()
Council members heard about principals who are afraid to make referrals for violence-prone students because they say it will make then look bad at Tweed; about teachers being pummeled in overcrowded, out-of-control hallways; about staffing problems that are hampering the education of students with severe disabilities - and about teachers still not being paid.
"This is a scandal," intoned Greg Lundahl, chapter leader at Washington Irving HS, telling the committee of teachers being assaulted, attempted rape in the school and a teacher who was trampled the day before. "This is educational malfeasance. My teachers are becoming more and more demoralized. If the work rules are so strong, how come they don't protect us from being hurt? |