More than 5,500 UFT members are employed by organizations other than the Department of Education. They are members of the union’s private and nonprofit chapters, and such members encompass some 26 groupings of professionals under 11 umbrella units.

“A notable aspect of the UFT is the diversity of workers it represents and fights for,” said Anne Goldman, the UFT vice president for private-sector and non-DOE chapters.

Goldman leads the union’s largest division in the private sector: the Federation of Nurses/UFT. The federation represents several thousand health care professionals at two private hospitals and two home health care agencies in New York City. Over its 40-year history, the federation has participated in two strikes and regularly achieved on-time contracts with groundbreaking provisions to strengthen nursing care.

The Family Child Care Providers Chapter, organized in 2007, represents about 2,000 child care providers who provide a nurturing and educational environment in their homes for thousands of children, ranging from 6-week-olds to school-age kids.

The 1,100 members from ADAPT Community Network’s schools, residences and day habilitation programs include teachers, teacher assistants, direct care workers, clinicians and other support staff. They work 24/7 with cognitively and physically challenged children and adults, teaching them the academic and adaptive skills they need to be as independent as possible while assisting them with essential activities of daily living.

The UFT also represents workers in a smattering of other private schools and nonprofit organizations: Birch Family Services, the Block Institute, the Consortium for Worker Education, Lincoln Center Education, Little Red School House & Elisabeth Irwin HS and the Lorge School.

Learn more about the nature and scope of the work these members do.

DOE employees are not the only New York City municipal employees in the UFT either. The union represents supervisors of school security, who work for the NYPD, and per-diem hearing officers, who preside over cases for the city’s Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings. The union also represents workers at 18 charter schools.

Adapt Community Network

Birch Family Services

Federation of Nurses/UFT

Leadership of these four chapters is pending: 
ADAPT Residences, West 154th Street, Flushing Avenue; Lorge School; The New Jewish Home; and Birch Soundview Early Childhood Center