The mission of the UFT’s Safety & Health Department is to protect UFT members from occupational hazards and to protect members’ rights when incidents happen. We do this by providing information about potential hazards; advocating on behalf of members...

If a controversial topic is dominating the education debate today, it’s probably something that Al Shanker proposed decades ago

As child care providers, we provide a crucial service to New York City's low-income and working families. Without us, many working parents couldn't hold a job! Despite our important role in the city's economy, the way we are paid and treated is...

The Family Child Care Providers Chapter signed and ratified its second contract with the state’s Office of Children and Family Services ( OCFS ) in 2014. It expires in 2017. The chapter’s previous contract was signed and ratified in 2009.

We are the thousands of family child care providers in New York City who have decided to fight back. After two years of struggle, we voted in October 2007 to join the United Federation of Teachers, the largest education union in the city.

For Milton Pincus, the decision to call off the November 7th strike in return for Mayor Robert Wagner’s promise of a fact-finding committee loaded with the leading lights of the city’s labor movement, was a no-brainer. From where he stood — outside...

Nat Levine will never forget the time his principal made the mistake of tangling with a young union organizer.

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.

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...