Here is the petition and intro to it. I suggest you download the
introduction and keep it with the petition because it explains what the
petition is about. You can keep it on a clipboard, and show it to
individual people. Or leave it out on a table during lunch time , not
during class time! Do not do UFT business during class time or preps.
Comrades who are first year in their school, I suggest just talking to a
few individuals and see if there is response.
This petition is being sent around by the ICE caucus, Independent Community
of Educators and EducatorsofNYC. ICE used to be the CP caucus back in the
day.
It's about health care for retirees and the inservice teachers, which is
also being threatened.
UFT Members for Premium Free, Quality Healthcare are demanding a voice and
transparency in agreements that bring major changes to active and retiree
healthcare.
Open in app
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*UFT Members: Call to Action* -- Sign The Petition for a Union-Wide
Healthcare Referendum Vote
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Members for Premium Free, Quality Healthcare are demanding a voice and
transparency in agreements that bring major changes to active and retiree
healthcare.
Dan Alicea
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Sometimes it’s *just time* to hold those we trust to do the work … to be
held accountable.
UFT members have had enough with the closed door, secret negotiations that
barter, give away, and diminish our healthcare benefits.
For over a decade, under the guise of “cost savings”, we’ve watched as our
union leadership has failed to be transparent in bringing healthcare
matters, that are collectively bargained, to our union policymaking bodies,
like the Executive Board or Delegate Assembly or us, the rank and file
members, for input.
*Leadership, let’s be clear: We are the UFT. We are its heart. Its soul.
Its engine. Its workers. Its ultimate decision makers.*
And so, had leadership taken its fiduciary responsibilities towards us
seriously, we would not need to demand a union referendum on this matter.
As it stands today, after seeing how our retirees lost the healthcare they
were promised, and paid into, now being forcibly enrolled into a privatized
Medicare Advantage plan; how Mulgrew ignored and marginalized significant
opposition to his change; and as our decades-old, premium-free GHI plan,
that most active city workers rely on, is about to be gutted into the
bottomless abyss of “cost savings”; and as we are facing out-of-control
copay hikes, diminished provider access and prescriptions seemingly
wantonly denied under our current plans…
*We must call for a membership-wide vote for any significant changes to
active and/or retired members’ healthcare.*
*These include any significant changes of our healthcare carriers, limits
to our choice of healthcare carriers, or institutions of or raises to
premiums, deductibles or copayments, etc.*
*UFT members must be provided full disclosure of the wording for such
proposed changes, prior to the membership wide vote.*
*We call on **all** who believe our healthcare, and the healthcare of our
loved ones, is a life and death matter — that it is as valuable as a wage
raise or improving our in-school working conditions — to join us in a
union-wide call for a referendum to demand a direct vote and say on our
healthcare benefits. *
*We ask you to sign the petition calling for a member-wide referendum. *
*We ask that you to bring this petition to other members in your local
chapters and to those in your social networks.*
Tell leadership: *LET US VOTE.*
To download, print and sign the healthcare referendum petition, and to join
the fight for premium-free quality healthcare, go to:
http://hcpetition.educators.nyc
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