Letter from President - Respect the Contract
Effective Monday, October 3rd, 2016 the Newark Teachers Union will begin Phase I of its Respect the Contract initiative. This initiative will be incremental and is necessitated by the districts’ refusal to respect the work or worth of teachers, aides and clerks at the negotiations table. While Superintendent Cerf never misses an opportunity to advertise the successes we have made in literacy and math or the decline in the city’s dropout rate, his negotiations team has failed to translate that into any meaningful show of appreciation at the bargaining table.