UFT retirees who have been union members for at least 50 years (photo right) or 60 years (photo left) stand proudly at the UFT Retired Teachers Committee’s annual luncheon on June 4. The union’s longest-serving members total 938 60-year members, 365 50-year members and 10 70-year members, and those who attended the luncheon were recognized. Among them was RTC Treasurer and Labor Solidarity Project Chair Bobby Greenberg (fourth from left in photo left), a 60-year member who also received a Lifetime Activist Award at the luncheon. Greenberg, who became a history teacher in 1966, organized teachers against the Vietnam War. Over the decades, he has worked on national AFT campaigns, co-chaired the UFT Committee on Economic and Social Justice, organized rank-and-file members and rallied retirees to join demonstrations and picket lines. In accepting his award, Greenberg encouraged retirees to get involved with the Labor Solidarity Project and other union activities. “Today we’re needed more than ever,” he said, adding that “individually, together as retirees and as a union, we’ve got to step it up.” UFT President Michael Mulgrew thanked retirees for their activism. “It is unique on this planet that a union local has retirees who do this work.”