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To: Sully- who wrote (10798)	11/28/2005 11:14:01 AM
From: Sully-	of 35834

GIOIA: TEACHERS-UNION PET NEW YORK POST Editorial November 28, 2005 If the United Federation of Teachers can't win a given perk through negoti ations, not to worry: It has a ready backup — the bought-and-paid-for "representatives" of the people. That's the lesson as the City Council takes up a bill to grant teachers yet another layer of protection — i.e., one more layer of bureaucracy and complexity — from any sort of discipline by principals. Carrying the UFT's water this time is Democratic Council member Eric Gioia, who has introduced a bill forbidding principals from taking any adverse action — from issuing a low rating to refusing to promote someone — against a teacher who is a "whistleblower." The bill doesn't require that these whistleblowers' complaints have merit. Just that they complain about something. Anything. And it doesn't differentiate between retaliation against whistleblowers versus acts taken for other reasons (such as, oh, incompetence). It just says complainers can't be touched. Got that? If Gioia gets his way, all any teacher needs to do is gripe about something, and the principal will face a visit from a district's investigator. Sloppy language aside, the law is also utterly unnecessary. The UFT doesn't even claim there's been a problem with principals retaliating against whistleblowers — just that some teachers might be afraid to speak up. Well, they shouldn't be — since the teachers contract, as it stands, already makes it virtually impossible for principals to discipline teachers for any reason. What's more, there's a good chance that Gioia's little gift to the UFT actually isn't within the City Council's power — since it directly interferes with the operation of the newly negotiated teachers contract ratified by the UFT's members this month. After all the delicate negotiations between the UFT and the Department of Education over work rules in the last few years, what nerve the union has using its puppets in the council this way. Hearings are scheduled on the Gioia-UFT bill for December. Maybe someone else on the council will have the guts to blow the whistle on this outrage. But don't count on it. nypost.com

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