The efforts of those who justly oppose the UFT leadership must begin at once. The disastrous results of this agreement will become quite evident by June 2014 and the wheels will come off in June 2015. The only chance to oust the Mulgrew caucus will be to win enough delegates to remove retirees from the election process. There is a chance for a removal ala Chicago if enough teachers are affected by this agreement and they will be.
It will only take a year for many of the rank-and-file - even, perhaps some of the Educators4Excellence - to realize how badly rigged this system is against teachers.
The question is, what will the rank-and-file do after that realization.
At my school, there is already a big contingent of anti-Unity/anti-Mulgrew people ready to hang this albatross around the leadership's neck.
The CL used to be an apolitical guy when it came to caucus politics, but over the last year he has grown increasingly politicized by the lack of help he has gotten from 52 Broadway with a swath of "u" ratings.
After a year of APPR, I would bet John King's 90's goatee a lot more people join the anti-Unity/anti-Mulgrew contingent and I don't see the CL waving Mulgrew pom-poms any time soon.
The more schools this can happen at, the better the chance that we can take this union away from the crooks and the hacks in Unity/New Action.
It's a tough road but it's better than sitting still and silent with this catastrophe.
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