OTHER STORIES

• Helping others benefit

  Longtime UFT member Josie Levine uses much of her free time helping to organize teachers in Texas and New Mexico as part of an AFT program.

• Remembering the Triangle Waist Company fire

  It’s been 97 years since the Triangle Waist Company fire, but the smoke has yet to clear.

• Learning to avoid violence

  The UFT Elementary Charter School, in observance of Violence Prevention Week, hosted a special interactive assembly program at which the New York City Police Department Community Outreach Unit made a presentation to students on strategies for avoiding potentially violent situations.

• Hispanic Federation honors Weingarten

  The Hispanic Federation, one of New York’s foremost civic and community groups, honored UFT President Randi Weingarten at its annual gala at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in Manhattan.

• Union contributions discussed

  The UFT hosted a forum sponsored by the Education and Labor Collaborative at the union’s Manhattan headquarters.

• We are family

  More than 100 people of all ages and faiths came together for the UFT Jewish Heritage Committee’s first Family Purim.

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