ORGANIZE TO PROTECT AND IMPROVE RETIREE BENEFITS
- Protect our Healthcare from being privatized – No Medicare Advantage
- Protect our Pensions
- Improve the COLA formula on our pension to match full Cost of Living
- Expand Social Security benefits and ensure that they are not diminished
- Support and organize for a NY Health Act that protects and expands health benefits for all
- Work towards a national single payer health plan
EXPAND UNION DEMOCRACY IN THE RETIRED TEACHERS CHAPTER (RTC)
- End winner-take-all chapter elections (70% of the vote should not win 100% of the 300 delegates)
- Make RTC meetings more meaningful. Give voice to a greater variety of views. Allow real debate. Allow members to raise issues
- Let the full chapter vote on major RTC issues such as changes to our healthcare
SOLIDARITY WITH WORKING EDUCATORS / STRENGTHEN WORKING EDUCATOR-RETIREE ALLIANCE
- Everyone’s Health Care Matters! Work to protect in-service health care, as we fight to preserve retiree healthcare
- Lobby the state legislature for Pension Equity - Move Tier 6 to Tier 4
- Take steps to support educators working under abusive administrators
- Involve retirees in assisting chapter leaders and organizing school chapters. Use retiree knowledge and experience to empower our working colleagues and unionize charter schools
- Keep public schools public. No charters, no vouchers, no co-locations, and no funding schemes that undermine public education.
- End Mayoral Control
- Fully fund our schools. Slash the Tweed bureaucracy. Stop wasteful spending on no-bid contracts for consultants and vendors.
SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE FOR ALL
- We support:
- raising the minimum wage
- alleviating student loans
- universal parental leave
- subsidized childcare
- a massive jobs program to address racial and economic disparities
- a progressive tax system including a stock transfer tax
- Oppose and fight racism
- Prioritize local communities, social services, and veterans’ benefits over military spending
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