Class struggles: The UFT story, part 5
Nat Levine will never forget the time his principal made the mistake of tangling with a young union organizer.
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Class struggles: The UFT story, part 4
Within months of the end of World War II the country was convulsed in the greatest wave of strikes in its history, before or since. With the memory of the Great Depression still fresh in their minds, many workers saw the huge post-war layoffs as a...
Class struggles: The UFT story, part 3
The Big Bang theory may be right about the origin of the universe, but it isn’t much help when it comes to explaining the making of a union. Like other unions, the UFT didn’t just explode onto the scene in 1960.
Class struggles: The UFT story, part 2
Ever the agent provocateur, Al Shanker reminded the large UFT Teacher Union Day audience last fall that in the 1950s there was no shortage of naysayers who said teachers would never get their act together: “Can teachers ever be organized? Well, no...
Class struggles: The UFT story, part 1
The UFT turns 36 this year [1996]. As unions go, that makes us a fairly new kid on the block. But the reality is that our labor roots stretch back to 1916 and that most of our founding mothers and fathers have either retired or passed on. Even those...
Here's an FAQ about remote counseling
The UFT and the DOE collaborated on this FAQ to address some of your questions and concerns about remote counseling.
Parent newsletter: Coronavirus resource hub update
Each of the UFT's parent liaisons sent this update to their borough's contact list the week of April 1, 2020.