Since its inception, the UFT has made reducing class size a priority so our members can give each child more individual attention.

It’s the school’s responsibility to provide you with basic instructional supplies, such as paper, chalk, math manipulatives and textbooks, so that you can provide the best possible education to your students. If you find you’re digging into your own...

As UFT members, you have rights on the job — rights to professional and fair treatment and to working conditions that help make a tough job more doable. These rights have been negotiated in a give-and-take process with management. It’s important to...

UFT members will be out in force on Sunday, Oct. 20 to raise money in the American Cancer Society’s annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer fundraising walk. A group of UFT members attended the Strides Kickoff breakfast at the Marriott Marquis in Midtown.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew issued a statement in response to the results of the first set of state tests tied to the new Common Core standards.

January 31, 2012 Adam S. Ross, Esq. Special Counsel Federation of Nurses/UFT 52 Broadway, 14th Floor New York, N.Y. 10004 Dear Ms. Ross: The tuition reimbursement policy shall be amended to include the current withholding tax rates on the taxable...

A. Assistance in Assault CasesThe principal shall report as soon as possible but within 24 hours to the Office of Legal Services, to the Chief Executive of School Safety and Planning and to the Victim Support Program that an assault upon a school...

A. Cumulative Absence Reserves and Sick Leaves Regular school secretaries reinstated after retirement will be credited with the cumulative reserves remaining to their credit upon retirement and such reserves as they accumulated as regular substitutes...

A. Excessing Rules - Appointed Secretaries Before applying the Rules for involuntary excessing, the senior school secretary within license who volunteers will be excessed from the school to a vacancy within the same district or in the case of high...

A. General Transfers Principals will advertise all vacancies. Interviews will be conducted by school-based human resources committees (made up of pedagogues and administration) with the final decision to be made by the principal. Vacancies are...