As a state-approved provider of continuing teacher and leader education (CTLE) hours, the UFT's LearnUFT program offers low-cost professional learning opportunities specifically designed to meet our ...

After months of organizing, documenting and union intervention, educators at Flushing HS succeeded in shutting down a principal’s initiative that isolated students from their peers. The now-defunct ...

Teacher Jacqueline Armento, who holds degrees in social studies and criminology and has a passion for both fields, found her happy place at John Bowne HS in Flushing, Queens. “I love this school. I ...

I’ve written before that national issues can also be local issues, and that we as union members help ourselves when we join national fights to protect the benefits and services we enjoy locally as UFT ...

Threatens to toss 40,000 city workers and their families out of network if forced to roll back Its astronomical rates NewYork-Presbyterian is demanding sky-high rates to renew its health contract for ...

Members of the Federation of Nurses/UFT ratified a new contract Friday night that raises nurses' salaries at Staten Island University Hospital- South (SIUHS) by a compounded 14 percent, protects their ...

UFT members at the six sites that make up District 31 Pre-K Centers on Staten Island are no longer staying silent in the face of mistreatment from their principal, thanks to Chapter Leader Amy Craine.

Thousands of special education students in New York City public schools this school year are still without the services they are legally entitled to because of massive shortages of paraprofessionals, ...

WHEREAS, education unionists and many other sectors of the labor movement have expressed indignation and alarm at the brutal targeting of our immigrant fellow workers, family members, and communities ...

If you or your dependents take any Affordable Care Act or New York State-mandated drugs, such as diabetes medication, contraceptives or low-dose statins, those are filled through your city ...

The votes are in. On Jan. 1, 2026, Zohran Mamdani will be the mayor of New York City. This is great news for union members and for the UFT. Never before have we had a mayor who is a stronger champion ...

In New York City and eight other downstate New York counties, EmblemHealth would provide both doctor and hospital coverage, allowing for continued, uninterrupted care from the doctors that members ...