Re: Tom Murphy. Murphy arranged at least one Zoom workshop to explain the Aetna plan to retiree members. They had an Aetna rep doing the explaining (= hard sell), who invited us to contact her if we knew of a drug that would cost more in SilverScripts than the current drug plan. I knew of one and wanted to tell her. There was no obvious way to reach her (unless I missed it in the presentation) so I contacted the UFT and none of the people the switchboard put me through to (6 of them ) even knew the name of that speaker. I then sent Murphy an email specifically asking for her name and contact, providing him the cost documentation. He wrote "Sorry you see the worst motives rather than the best in people. Her name was announced several times and her contact info was posted there and on our website." I wrote him back that if her name was given in the first few minutes, I didn't write it down and it was never mentioned when I needed it (at the end). I had checked many pages on the UFT website, never found it: if there, it was not in an obvious place. And finally: "I do not look for the worst motives. I was actually doing a service to these people that I would have expected to come from the Union or the City. The meeting could have been recorded so I could circulate a link to them. A transcript could have been made available so I could circulate a pdf of it. . . . It is YOU who were looking for bad motives, not me. My question for the speaker (which nobody in the 6 phone calls could help me with) and the hours I put into getting these updates to people who need them are signs of dedication and helpfulness. Not a bad motive in sight."
Re: Tom Murphy. Murphy arranged at least one Zoom workshop to explain the Aetna plan to retiree members. They had an Aetna rep doing the explaining (= hard sell), who invited us to contact her if we knew of a drug that would cost more in SilverScripts than the current drug plan. I knew of one and wanted to tell her. There was no obvious way to reach her (unless I missed it in the presentation) so I contacted the UFT and none of the people the switchboard put me through to (6 of them ) even knew the name of that speaker. I then sent Murphy an email specifically asking for her name and contact, providing him the cost documentation. He wrote "Sorry you see the worst motives rather than the best in people. Her name was announced several times and her contact info was posted there and on our website." I wrote him back that if her name was given in the first few minutes, I didn't write it down and it was never mentioned when I needed it (at the end). I had checked many pages on the UFT website, never found it: if there, it was not in an obvious place. And finally: "I do not look for the worst motives. I was actually doing a service to these people that I would have expected to come from the Union or the City. The meeting could have been recorded so I could circulate a link to them. A transcript could have been made available so I could circulate a pdf of it. . . . It is YOU who were looking for bad motives, not me. My question for the speaker (which nobody in the 6 phone calls could help me with) and the hours I put into getting these updates to people who need them are signs of dedication and helpfulness. Not a bad motive in sight."
Unbelievable they allow a corporation to address you and are not competent enough to do it themselves. Vote them out.
Like i said…. We too old for this bullshit. Vote them out. Unity out Union in!!!
Absolutely. Anyone old enough to be a teacher deserves real representation.