Sept. 18, 2025

Your UFT consultation committee's work and our report form

Make sure you have a UFT consultation committee that meets monthly with the principal at a mutually agreeable time. This committee serves a critical purpose: to promote chapter voice; organize around important school issues; and discuss, advocate and attempt to resolve these issues at the school.

As soon as you can after each meeting, but no later than the end of the following month, submit a consultation committee notes report, which can be found in the forms section of the Chapter Leader Hub. Select the topic of each agenda item at your meeting, its status (i.e., in progress / resolved / unresolved / escalated) and any relevant documents. Please include ALL agenda items. Your UFT district representative will receive a copy of your meeting summary. The district representative may place unresolved issues on the UFT's monthly district consultation committee with the superintendent. If the same issue is reported by chapter leaders across the city, it can be escalated to the monthly consultation meeting at the chancellor's level, where UFT President Michael Mulgrew and Schools Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos discuss issues. When the UFT raises chapter issues in the consultation meetings at the district or chancellor's level, the data provided in chapter leaders' consultation committee notes gives us greater leverage because we have documentary evidence of the issue.

Read more about the role and responsibilities of the UFT consultation committee.

Help get out the vote for Zohran Mamdani

The UFT Delegate Assembly voted in July to endorse Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor after he promised to work with the union to fully fund public schools, pass the “RESPECT check” for paraprofessionals, lobby Albany to fix Tier 6 and more. Here are two ways that you and your fellow members can help get out the vote for Mamdani and our union’s other endorsed candidates:

• Sign up for phone banking: We are calling fellow UFT members at phone banks in all five UFT borough offices between now and Election Day. Phone banks are on select weekdays (see the registration form for details) from 4 to 6 p.m. Sign up for as many sessions as you can.
  Register
• Canvass for Mamdani: We are organizing a UFT canvassing day on a weekend in each borough. UFT members will gather at the UFT borough office and then fan out across that borough to door-knock at the homes of fellow UFT members. The first canvassing day was on Staten Island on Sept. 14. Here are the other canvassing days: The Bronx (Saturday, Sept. 27); Brooklyn (Saturday, Oct. 4); Manhattan (Saturday, Oct. 18); and Queens (Saturday, Oct. 25).
  • Register for the Bronx
  • Register for Brooklyn
  • Register for Manhattan

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Create a team for Making Strides Against Breast Cancer

Every October, thousands of UFT members come together to participate in a Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk in the five boroughs and on Long Island. Chapter leaders can create teams for their chapter members to fundraise and support one another. To form a team, select a walk and then click "Sign Up." When it's time to name your team, be sure to include "UFT" in the name. Let your chapter's members know your team's name so they can select it when they sign up to walk. This year, the walks in Manhattan (Central Park), Queens (Flushing Meadows Corona Park) and Long Island (Jones Beach State Park) will take place on Sunday, Oct. 19. The walks in Brooklyn (Coney Island Boardwalk), the Bronx (Bay Plaza Shopping Center) and Staten Island (Midland Beach) will take place on Sunday, Oct. 26. All the walks begin at 8 a.m., except for the walk in Long Island, which has a rolling start time. More details, including online registration and each walk's UFT Strides coordinator, can be found on the UFT website.

Set up your team

Report class size data to your district rep on Sept. 25 and Oct. 3

We are addressing the class size issues that school chapter leaders reported on Days 6 and 10. The next key reporting days are: Day 14 (Thursday, Sept. 25) and Day 19 (Friday, Oct. 3). These contractual class size limits are separate and apart from implementation of the state's class size law. Please obtain your school's RACL (elementary or middle schools) or Master Schedule Final (high schools), which indicates class sizes on these dates. For most schools, the oversize classes that remain unresolved by Day 14 (Sept. 25) will go to your district representative and superintendent to tackle. On the 21st day, unresolved cases escalate a step higher to the central Class Size Labor-Management Committee.

The 2018 contract created a special additional step for schools that are chronically out of compliance, defined as having oversized classes for four of the past six school years. These schools are escalated to the Class Size Labor-Management Committee once the overages are reported to the union. If the Class Size Labor-Management Committee cannot resolve the issue, the case is scheduled for expedited arbitration as soon as 10 days later — and no later than the 34th school day of the term. The arbitrator can issue a binding remedy within five school days that the DOE must implement in five school days.

ACTION YOU NEED TO TAKE: Send the class size data for your school on days 14 and 19 of the school year to your UFT district representative. Reach out to your district representative if you have any questions.

Request a UFT representative to speak at your school

Do your members have questions about UFT Welfare Fund benefits, certification or school safety and health? Would they like to have a conversation with the UFT vice president from their school division? UFT officers and union reps from various departments are available to visit your school and speak with the members of your chapter. Select “Request a School Visit” in the forms section of the Chapter Leader Hub.

Request a visit