About 200 students living in transitional housing received free winter coats, ate a Thanksgiving meal and tried their hands at many crafts and activities at the sixth annual UFT Thanksgiving Luncheon on Nov. 23, thanks to a partnership between the UFT’s Middle Schools Division and the DOE.

The annual Federation of Nurses/UFT Professional Issues Conference drew 250 nurses to the Westin in Manhattan on Nov. 22 for workshops, presentations, exhibits, lunch and a raffle.

School secretaries came from every corner of the city to UFT headquarters on a Saturday for a day of professional development, networking and mutual support.

Members from District 79 schools throughout the city gathered at Dallas BBQ in the Chelsea section of Manhattan on Oct. 29 for a Meet the President event with UFT President Michael Mulgrew.

UFT members in all five boroughs and on Long Island raised thousands of dollars by participating in Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walks in October.

Hundreds of UFT members joined the Labor Parade on Sept. 9 in New York City, marching up Fifth Avenue with their counterparts from other unions across the city. Members marched, rode the UFT float or sat in two double-decker buses along the parade route.

Nearly 1,000 educators, parents and advocates traveled on buses to attend the UFT’s annual Lobby Day in Albany. They asked state lawmakers to add more checks and balances to mayoral control of New York City public schools, fix Tier 6 of the pension system, require the city to follow the state's class size law and increase state foundation aid for New York City.

UFT members demonstrated through "public grade-ins" across the city on March 30, 2023, that educators deserve respect and autonomy in their next contract. 

UFT members and other frontline workers were honored at a ticker-tape parade through the Canyon of Heroes in Lower Manhattan on July 7. 

The first hybrid Teacher Union Day was held on Nov. 7, 2021, with 234 people, including honorees and their families, attending in person to celebrate union activism in Shanker Hall at UFT headquarters in Manhattan while 592 members joined the festivities online.