UFT Vice President for Academic High Schools Janella Hinds testified before the New York City Council Committee on Civil Service and Labor regarding the state of unions in New York City.

This is the Sept. 14 issue of the Brooklyn parent newsletter.

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When grievances arise out of school reorganization and involve class size, teacher programs or assignment, there are special time limits. Reorganization grievances must be filed within two school days after the employee has knowledge of the act or...

Our contract includes a provision that allows teachers to challenge procedural flaws in their observations and/or other aspects of their evaluation. This “streamlined process to resolve APPR compliance issues” has come to be known as the APPR...

The 2014 contract negotiated by the UFT and the DOE included a new article, 8I, on the reduction of paperwork. As a result of Article 8I, the UFT and the DOE convened a central paperwork committee and in May 2015 negotiated a set of five paperwork...

Hundreds of UFT members braved the heat and humidity to march in the city’s Labor Day Parade on September 10, many saying they were there to help raise awareness that unions are under attack.

Labor leaders from across the city rallied on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on Sept. 9 in support of Robert Jackson, a longtime education advocate and former City Council member running for the Democratic nomination to represent the 31st District...

IEP teachers will assume a new role as learning specialists.

Students in grades 3-8 in every school district in New York City improved on the state’s Common Core English Language Arts test in 2016, matching the performance of their peers in the rest of the state for the first time.