“As part of our last collective-bargaining agreement, we agreed to achieve health care savings,” said UFT Welfare Fund Executive Director Arthur Pepper. “By collaboratively working with the city, we have been able to preserve access to quality health...

For 13 years, Peter Chang has worked as a Hearing Education Related Service provider, helping hearing impaired and profoundly deaf students in Manhattan schools find their voices.

Legendary civil rights leader and union activist Norman Hill was honored on Feb. 6 at the 56th annual Greater Metropolitan New York Social Studies Conference sponsored by the Association of Teachers of Social Studies/UFT.

“Forward Together’’ was the theme this year as nearly 300 celebrants marked Black History Month at the UFT African Heritage Committee’s 13th annual dinner dance.

This is the March 2 issue of the Staten Island parent newsletter.

In the fall of 1961 a column appeared in the UFT’s newspaper, The United Teacher, under the byline: Albert Gordon. The writer, a social studies teacher from Brooklyn’s Samuel Tilden HS, told of his arrest the previous summer and his month-long...

Learn about the Union Loud and Proud campaign, an upcoming conversation with Ugandan activist Frank Mugisha, our Academic High School Awards Recognition Ceremony, special education and IEP implementation responsibilities, free curriculum resources...

UFT President Michael Mulgrew met with the staff at PS 45 on Staten Island on the morning of Feb. 25, then traveled across the borough to do walk-throughs at PS/IS 48 and PS 9, which are across the street from each other.

Hundreds of Federation of Nurses/UFT members employed at NYU Lutheran Medical Center turned out to vote “yes” on their new two-year contract. The new contract protects the nurses’ defined-benefit pension and maintains their health insurance package. In addition, the nurses will receive, in total, a slightly larger than 6 percent increase in salary over the life of the contract.

Following an early-morning visit with the staffs of the three schools co-located in the new River School in Manhattan on Feb. 11, UFT President Michael Mulgrew visited classrooms throughout the building.