UFT Vice President of Elementary Education Karen Alford urges members to welcome and offer their support to the 6,600 new educators hired this fall to bring more classes under the new class size limits that the union fought so hard to secure.

I’m proud that the UFT led the charge at the bargaining table and even prouder that we modeled participatory unionism at its best in the process leading up to the Municipal Labor Committee’s final vote on the new plan on Sept. 30. From the beginning...

The Trump administration is exploiting federal workers as bargaining chips and imposing unfair burdens on them during the government shutdown.


Our paraprofessionals have waited long enough. It’s time for the New York City Council to pass the bill providing a $10,000 annual “RESPECT check” for all New York City public school paraprofessionals.

Teacher Robyn Matty speaks to the challenges teachers and students face in the wake of a severe shortage in paraprofessionals.

Paraprofessional Diana Judge advocates for City Council passage of the $10,00 "RESPECT check" for paraprofessionals.

School librarian Jennifer Hermus-Washburn praises Staten Island restaurant owner and New York City public school grad James McBratney.

Teacher Jennifer Drinkwater-Rodriguez gives the state's new UFT-backed cellphone ban a hearty endorsement.

A Manhattan teacher who has been injured on the job expresses appreciation for a recent Q&A on the Issues in the New York Teacher informing members what to do if they suffer a line of dury injury (LODI).

School nurse is swamped with cases of 'cellphone withdrawal'!