Our Rights

As UFT members, you have rights on the job — rights to professional and fair treatment and to working conditions that help make a tough job more doable. These rights have been negotiated in a give-and-take process with management. It’s important to become familiar with your rights and exercise them. In this section, you’ll find searchable contracts for every UFT bargaining unit plus comprehensive information about health and safety, observations and evaluations, leaves and much more.

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School Safety

Find out about incident reporting, UFT school safety workshops and services, safety laws and regulations governing schools and theft prevention tips.

Environmental Health & Safety

Find information about UFT on-site training, site inspections and emergency response as well as a primer on common ailments and building hazards in schools.

Per-session activities for teachers

May 16, 2013

The life of a school extends past regular classroom hours. Students can get extra academic help. They can create senior yearbooks, join debate teams and perform in school plays. They can participate in team sports. Teachers can apply to become instructors, coaches or leaders of these per-session activities that take place either before school, after school, on weekends or holidays, or in the summer.

Consult your contract

The current contract for every bargaining unit represented by the UFT is now available on uft.org. Each contract is fully searchable. The teacher contract, in addition, has links to contract tips as well as forms and other related items in the margin.

You must be a member of a UFT bargaining unit and be logged onto the UFT website to have access to the searchable version of your contract.

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