Would-Be Weingarten Party Crashers Quashed

A movement to disrupt a 50th birthday party for the president of the city teachers' union, Randi Weingarten, was shuttered minutes before it was set to start yesterday — thanks to an intra-union bargaining session that will continue this morning.

About 600 picketers from city construction unions had gathered at the union headquarters to hand out fake report cards slapping the United Federation of Teachers with an F in the category of "labor solidarity" and an A in "hypocrisy." The protest was canceled yesterday afternoon after UFT officials sat down with representatives of D.C. 9 and the New York City District Council of Carpenters.

The political director of carpenters council, Stephen McInnis, said that new agreement swayed him to cancel the protest — and revise Ms. Weingarten's report card.