In October 2007, Weingarten agreed to two sidebar agreements, one where the City and the UFT would jointly seek legislative approval for a new pension improvement allowing teachers with 25 years of service to retire at age 55, and the other-voluntary school wide performance pay agreement which provides bonuses to all the teachers in a school if student achievement increases by agreed upon benchmarks.

Weingarten sold the union's longtime headquarters at 260 Park Avenue South as well as two other union-owned buildings at 48 and 49 East 21st Street for a total of $ 63. 6 million to cover the cost.

Alemannic belt mountings, from a 7th century grave in the Alemannic grave field | grave field at Weingarten ( Württemberg ) | Weingarten.

In 2005, Gene Weingarten from The Washington Post was sent a gift of a first edition Barnaby book as an incentive for Watterson's cooperation.

" That film ... got more from the critics than any film I ever made in all the years, and we didn't make enough to pay for the ushers in the theatre ," recalled producer Lawrence Weingarten.

By a contract of inheritance, in 1191 the Hohenstaufen Frederick Barbarossa acquired the ownership of the Schussengau ( including Altdorf, Weingarten and Ravensburg ) from Welf VI, Duke of Spoleto and uncle of both Frederick Barbarossa and Henry the Lion.

On the Friday following Ascension, Roman Catholics from Weingarten and from most parts of Upper Swabia take part in the annual Blutritt, a huge equestrian procession.

* Mordechai Weingarten Jewish leader in Jerusalem from 1935 to 1948

He was provost of McMaster University from January 1, 2002, succeeding psychologist Harvey Weingarten who had left to become president of the University of Calgary.

The NATO International Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol School ( ILRRPS ), based first at Weingarten and then Pfullendorf, provided training to LRRP units from the United States, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Greece, Belgium, Norway, Denmark, Portugal and Turkey.

Image: Weingarten Baden. jpg | view from the hills

On June 24, 2009, Weingarten announced she would step down from her post as president of the United Federation of Teachers effective July 31, 2009.

Weingarten then worked as a lawyer for the firm of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan from 1983 to 1986, where she handled several acrimonious arbitration cases on behalf of the UFT.

On June 24, 2009, Weingarten announced she would step down from her post as president of the United Federation of Teachers effective July 31, 2009.

In 2003, Weingarten moved the UFT's headquarters from near Gramercy Park to Lower Manhattan.

The German Army's Special Operations Training Centre () is located in Pfullendorf, as was the NATO International Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol School following its move from Weingarten to its closure in 1999.

In an editorial on July 3, 2009, titled " Head of the class: Outgoing UFT chief Randi Weingarten did right by her members ", the New York Daily News said, " Randi Weingarten will be remembered as one of New York's most formidable union leaders — one with toughness, savvy and smarts to spare ".

The first was when her mother's union went on strike when Weingarten was in the eleventh grade.

Weingarten introduced Liz Margolies, 54, a psychotherapist and health care activist, as her partner while accepting the Empire State Pride Agenda's 2007 Community Service Award by Christine Quinn.

Weingarten has won re-election by consistently wide margins since her appointment in 1998.

During her tenure as UFT president, Weingarten has pushed for higher salaries and improved training for teachers, often agreeing to longer work days and more tutoring time in order to win better pay.

Weingarten began negotiating her first contract as UFT president in 2000.

Weingarten concluded her third collective bargaining agreement barely a year later.

In her first year Weingarten has fought for resources to keep schools, and other public institutions afloat during this fiscal crises, and has started an AFT Innovation Fund, to promote and disseminate innovative educational reforms pursued and promoted by teachers and their union.

Weingarten is very active in city politics as well, and has been described as a " kingmaker " in New York City mayoral politics due to her union leadership position.

He reversed his view of Weingarten, and proposed that Bloomberg appoint her chancellor of the school system.

He reversed his view of Weingarten, and proposed that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg appoint her chancellor of the school system.

She spearheads the new BFF Support Group and with her producer husband Arthur Weingarten work closely with Virginia McKenna of the Zoo Check campaign.

Before that, Weingarten was the name of Weingarten Abbey only, which lay on the Martinsberg ( St. Martin's hill ) above the town.

Weingarten has also endorsed merit pay for city teachers, and in 2007 negotiated a controversial contract which paid teachers bonuses if their students ' test scores rose.

In 2003, Weingarten and the UFT pushed for a change to the New York City Charter which would force the city to reduce class sizes.

The UFT suffered a setback when AFSCME District Council 37, which represents city workers outside the school system, settled a contract with a minimal wage increase — putting pressure on Weingarten to settle a similar contract.

On June 1, 2005, nearly 20, 000 teachers — about a quarter of the UFT membership — packed Madison Square Garden for a rally in which Weingarten denounced Bloomberg and Klein, asked for a strike vote, and requested state arbitration.

Negotiations over health benefits were to be conducted separately in talks with the Municipal Labor Committee, an umbrella group for municipal unions which Weingarten chairs.

As of May 10, 2010 Randi Weingarten is in the eye of a storm which revolves around the AFT and Weingarten specifically interfering with the local elections of the Washington Teachers Union ( WTU ).

A lifelong Democrat, Weingarten is a member of the Democratic National Committee ( DNC ).

* Randi Weingarten, American trade union leader

Weingarten spearheaded a citiwide coalition for bargaining in June and based upon that, several unions concluded talks quickly.

He described how unions, particularly the United Federation of Teachers and Weingarten in New York City, protected incompetent teachers, and were opposed to pay-for-performance, and obstructed necessary reforms, a system he previously exposed in The New Yorker.

He described how unions, particularly the United Federation of Teachers and UFT president Randi Weingarten in New York City, protected incompetent teachers, and were opposed to pay-for-performance, and obstructed necessary reforms, a system he previously exposed in The New Yorker.

In an attempt to put political pressure on the Giuliani administration, Weingarten and the UFT endorsed Alan Hevesi in the Democratic primary.