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Last updated: 2:32 am March 30, 2009 Posted: 1:54 am March 30, 2009 Charter-school teachers to their union: Butt out. The educators, at two city charter schools, have filed for permission from the state to cut their ties with the United Federation of Teachers. The action, at KIPP Academy in ...
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Charter School Teachers Attempt Ousting of Union
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... Earlier this year, the teachers union filed a grievance against KIPP Academy’s “at-will” employment policies but the union did so without first meeting with teachers to see if they wanted this action. Teacher Matt Hureau told The New York Post that the union never talked to teachers first. “It was the union acting and notifying the teachers afterward,” Hureau said ...
Charter School Teachers Attempt Ousting of Union
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... to oust the United Federation of Teachers from their places of work. Teachers at two KIPP charter schools in the Bronx and Manhattan, New York, took the action after the UFT tired to meddle in school affairs without contacting teachers and staff first. Earlier this year, the teachers union filed a grievance against KIPP Academy’s “at-will” employment policies but the union did so without first meeting with teachers to see if they wanted this action. Teacher Matt Hureau told The New York Post that the union never talked to teachers first. “It was the union acting and notifying ...
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