You Got Another Raise the USA’S CSA’S DOE Members Receiving 4.5% in Pay Hikes
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Major Settlement Focus On Equity Good Things Rubio, Sinclair: Big Clarifies Job In Education For Your Changes to CSA Classifications At ELI Summer School: A Leadership Team for Education Institute Window On 7 Administrators 4 The World, 3 Through Literature 8 Sept 2017 Volume 51, Number 1 American Federation NEWS of School Administrators, COUNCIL OF SCHOOL SUPERVISORS AND ADMINISTRATORS AFL-CIO Local 1 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE You Got Another Raise The USA’s CSA’s DOE Members Receiving 4.5% In Pay Hikes BY CHUCK WILBANKS percent bump in Sept. of enhanced contributions last year. One of many to the Welfare Fund and a Largest By Oct. 2018, when the variety of workplace pro- CSA members who want to see the benefits of collec- last of the pay hikes have gains won under tections including reduced tive bargaining need look been awarded, salaries will time frames for investi- School no further than their Sept. have risen by more than 2014 contract gations; leave for family paycheck. 18% since the contract was illnesses; less stringent holi- On Sept. 6, princi- ratified. day and vacation rules; and pals, assistant principals, CSA’s contract was ham- will manifest in February, salary steps for EAs which System Is education administrators mered out during tough when DOE members will will begin in 2018. and other supervisors will negotiations between a CSA receive back pay, including Such benefits are receive a raise of 2 percent. team led by now President the approximately 3000 increasingly rare for vast That’s one of two raises this Mark Cannizzaro on one members whom the city numbers of Americans, and Depending fall: The second, of 2.5 per- side and officials represent- sought to exclude during are the result of belonging cent, takes effect Oct. 6. ing New York City on the negotiations – those who to a strong union. The 4.5 percent pay hike other. had been promoted from “Sadly, many Americans On You is the latest of several mem- The raise is only one teachers to administrators enjoy no such protections,” bers have received as part of of several concrete gains between 2010 and today. said CSA President Mark CSA’s Dec. 2014 contract. members continue to make Among other bene- Cannizzaro. “Some advo- Thank You For All Members also received a 3.5 under the contract. Another fits from the contract are Continued on page 3 You Do. Stay Strong, Active And Engaged! By Mark Cannizzaro With Big Money Behind Them, nother summer has flown by in what seems like no time Con-Con Backers Ready for Battle at all and I’m sure you already feel like BY CLEM RICHARDSON forces to use a convention to gut floor offices of Wall Street law firm you are in mid-season form. At pension benefits and other worker Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher, where A protections from the governing doc- Randy Mastro is a partner. The fight over whether New York CSA, we feel the same way. We state should hold a Constitutional ument. The former deputy mayor and dedicated our Convention is about to go into over- “All of our members, indeed all enforcer for Rudy Giuliani, Mr. summer to drive. public employees, need to be aware Mastro is the chair of Citizens transitioning With just over a month left that everything from their retire- Union. He (and Gibson, Dunn) leadership, plan- before the question appears on the ment benefits to funding for pub- most recently achieved notoriety ning and brain- Nov. 7 ballot, groups for and against lic education may come into play,” for billing the citizens of New Jersey storming ideas the once-every-twenty-years referen- said CSA President Mark Cannizzaro. $10 million to conduct an “investi- dum that allows New York residents “While I can understand people’s gation” that found no wrongdoing to support you to redraw the state Constitution vir- frustration with Albany, there are on the part of Gov. Chris Christie and strengthen tually from scratch are ratcheting other, more pragmatic and targeted in the Bridgegate affair. The report your union. We up their efforts to persuade voters to ways to solve the state’s problems. was widely reviled as inadequate and want to engage agree with them. I am urging everyone to vote ‘No.’ biased. you, communi- A bevy of public service unions, And all our members should urge While Mastro provided the pub- Mark Cannizzaro cate effectively, including CSA, elected officials their family and friends to vote ‘No’ lic forum for Citizens Union, he did follow up on all including House Speaker Carl as well.” not attend the gathering. But those Heastie, Senate Majority Leader John In 1997, unions played a pivotal members of the group who were concerns, and continue to earn Flanagan, New York City Mayor Bill role in mobilizing their members present suggested the Con-Con your trust. We know how chal- de Blasio, and other prominent and convincing the public to defeat could be cast as a progressive issue lenging your day-to-day respon- officials have come out against the a convention. This time, Con-Con – a chance for good government sibilities are and we will continue Convention. They cite everything supporters have vowed to take their groups to attack a variety of ills such to advocate relentlessly to remove from the cost – estimated, according arguments to the people as effec- as corruption in Albany, epitomized unnecessary obstacles. to which side is asked, at anywhere tively as the digital age will allow. by important decisions being made Let’s talk about a few things from $41 million to $300 million And where better to launch such a by “three men in a room.” – to the potential for conservative grass roots drive than from the 46th you can look forward to. Wage Continued on page 3 Continued on page 2 2 CSA NEWS Sept. 2017 PRESIDENT’S PAGE Collective Strength Council of School As Important As Ever Supervisors & Administrators American Federation of School Administrators, AFL-CIO, Local 1 Anti-Union Factions Are Strong and Well-Funded By Mark Cannizzaro 40 Rector St., NY, NY 10006 Phone: (212) 823-2020 Continued from page 1 tors, a provision that will take effect Fax: (212) 962-6130 increases agreed to in our last round this school year and was the result www.csa-nyc.org of bargaining will increase your salary of CSA’s persistence through many President Mark Cannizzaro by 4.5% this school year and another rounds of collective bargaining begin- Executive Vice President 6% next school year and lump sum ning in 1999. Henry Rubio payments will continue each February More than ever, we will need to First Vice President Rosemarie Sinclair through 2021. All of you will benefit stick together. There are strong, well- Treasurer from these salary increases including funded and well-organized anti-union Christopher Ogno those promoted from UFT titles, whom forces that would like to roll back your Secretary the city had sought to exclude. This rights and scale down your benefits. Steffani Fanizzi was possible only because long-time Right now these anti-union efforts Vice Presidents Sam Akel union members stood strong together are reaching the Supreme Court, with Susan Barnes to avoid a tremendous injustice for our the case known as Janus v. AFSCME, Ramon Gonzalez Debra Handler newer and future CSA members. Who a nearly identical case to Friedrichs v. Lois Lee would have believed that management California Teachers Association. On Nancy Russo, Retiree Chapter would even suggest that educators the state level, voters will decide in Executive Director Operations chosen for a promotion would have November whether to hold a constitu- Erminia Claudio to forfeit money already earned as a condition of their tional convention, an open-ended affair that poses a General Counsel David Grandwetter promotion? Your united response exemplified our col- direct threat to our retirement benefits and the public lective strength and demonstrated why unionism is as school system in general. I urge you all to vote ‘No.’ Executive Director Field Services important and necessary today as ever before. Sana Q. Nasser Field Directors • • • Juanita Bass, Mildred Boyce, Our union’s founders risked their James Harrigan, Christine Martin, ew York City government did not give you Daisy O’Gorman, Frank Patterson, these raises, nor any of the other strides you jobs in order to start this union. Get Mercedes Qualls have made. It was your hard work as school involved, support your colleagues. We Assistant Field Directors N Beshir Abdellatif, Eleanor Andrew, leaders and the hard work of your negotiating team, Laverne Burrowes, Kenneth Llinas led by men and women who have walked in your are stronger when you participate. Charles Dluzniewski, Nancy Esposito, Roberto Flores, Aura Gangemi, Ellie shoes. Many of you wisely learn the nuances of the Greenberg, Ray Gregory, Joseph LaCascia, UFT and the other contracts of those whom you Monica McDonald, Dorothy Morris, Wanda Soto, supervise, and you’d be wise to familiarize yourself CSA is your union and for us to remain strong, MaryAnn Tucker, Yvonne Williams with your own contract as well. It’s important to every one of you must be active and engaged. understand the provisions of flex time, work during Whether you choose to run for a seat on our execu- Grievance Director school holiday/vacation days, per session for super- tive board, participate in district/borough meetings Robert J. Reich Assistant Directors visors and salary steps for educational administra- or make yourself available to support colleagues, we Carol Atkins, Alex Castillo, Ed. D are all stronger with you. The Robert Colon, Jermaine Garden, Dale Kelly men and women who risked Marlene Lazar, Ph.D Higher Studies Director of Communications their jobs to launch CSA, and Clem Richardson their successors, have navigated Assistant Director of Communications on our behalf through challeng- Corey Bachman ing times.