Read the UFT's 2025 legislative policy recommendations for New York City below or download a PDF of these priorities. Protecting our schools. Protecting New York City’s schools ...

United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew today announced that the union is establishing a new prerequisite for mayoral candidates who want to be considered for the UFT endorsement: ...

March can feel like the longest month of the school year for educators. That’s why we’re taking a moment to revisit our August conversation with Carleton Archer, the vice president of operations at ...

Members of the Federation of Nurses/UFT ratified a new contract Thursday night that raises nurses' salaries at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn by a compounded 15.8 percent and requires the hospital to ...

The Federation of Nurses/ UFT sent a 10-day strike notification to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn on Tuesday night, Feb. 18. Unions are required by federal labor law to give healthcare institutions 10 ...

For Black History Month and Women’s History Month, I dress up like a historical figure every day. I display a picture of that historical figure (here, aviation pioneer John C. Robinson) and teach a ...

For new educators, the sheer volume of forms to fill out, documents to sign and portals to access can be bewildering. But the city health plan and UFT Welfare Fund-provided supplemental health ...

The UFT Welfare Fund has increased the dollar amount of its death benefit for UFT members who die while still working for the Department of Education or the city. “I hope you never have to use the ...

Retiree Mark Grashow was visiting a high school in northern Zimbabwe 18 years ago when a teacher showed him a battered edition of “Romeo and Juliet,” which no students were allowed to touch or read ...

If you are turning 73 in 2025 and have a tax-deferred annuity (TDA) account, you will have to begin making annual withdrawals from your TDA (called a required minimum distribution or RMD). The ...

After looking at Duke Ellington’s white baby grand piano and listening to a Louis Armstrong record spinning on a hand-cranked phonograph, students from PS 163 in Manhattan dove deeper into the Jazz ...