Townsend Harris HS, a top-performing Queens school and Banana Kelly HS, a struggling school in the South Bronx, stood side by side as Team High School Award winners at the UFT’s 2017 Academic High Schools Awards Celebration.


In accepting the John Dewey Award, the Rev. William Barber reframed the fight for public education as part of the moral fight for social, economic and racial justice.

AFT President Randi Weingarten and Texas American Federation of Teachers President Louis Malfaro at the morning town hall brought a national perspective to the threats facing public education and the labor movement.

Nurses celebrate their achievements and their profession at the fourth annual Federation of Nurses/UFT Nurse Recognition Day on May 2. 


Nurses at Staten Island University Hospital, negotiating for the first time against a powerful hospital corporation, won a two-year contract that raises wages by 6 percent, improves the patient-nurse staffing ratio and maintains benefits.

More than 220 District 75 educators, friends and family members came together on May 18 at the Vanderbilt in South Beach on Staten Island for their 12th annual awards ceremony and scholarship fundraiser.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony marked the opening of a new school-based health clinic on May 11 at the Community Health Academy of the Heights, one of the UFT’s 28 Community Learning Schools.

Actress Mackenzie Phillips shared her experiences overcoming addition at a book-signing event co-sponosored by the union's Member Assistance Program.

Nine students were honored alongside the educators who had helped them become successful at the Queens District 75 Public School Proud celebration on April 27.

Fourth-grade teachers Alison Dempsey and Maria Koutras at PS 503 invited their students’ immigrant parents to share their stories of exile, sacrifice and success at the Day of Democracy, a schoolwide event timed to coincide with May Day.