More than 3,000 newly hired teachers poured into Barclays Center in Brooklyn despite the rain and received a warm UFT welcome at the start of the DOE’s New Teacher Week. Union representatives helped them get enrolled on the spot and provided the new educators with helpful information about their contractual rights, retirement benefits, health care, professional learning resources and more.

UFT members across the city wore red on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019, to show solidarity with striking Chicago educators and the Chicago Teachers Union.

More than 1,700 UFT members and guests packed the Grand Ballroom at the New York Hilton in midtown Manhattan on Oct. 20 to celebrate union activism past and present at the UFT’s annual Teacher Union Day event.

The first hybrid Teacher Union Day was held on Nov. 7, 2021, with 234 people, including honorees and their families, attending in person to celebrate union activism in Shanker Hall at UFT headquarters in Manhattan while 592 members joined the festivities online.

More than 1,000 educators, family and friends honored UFT members at the New York Hilton Midtown on Nov. 6 during Teacher Union Day, an annual event that commemorates the 1960 strike that won collective bargaining rights for the union.

About 1,700 UFT members, families and friends gathered at the New York Hilton on Nov. 2, 2025, to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the 1960 strike that won collective bargaining rights for UFT members. At the union’s annual Teacher Union Day event, more than 250 individual members and chapters were honored for their exceptional work and longtime service to the union’s mission, including the members of the UFT Health Care Committee and the Occupational and Physical Therapists Chapter.

About 1,500 UFT members, families and friends gathered at the New York Hilton Midtown on Nov. 3 to celebrate the organizers, activists and leaders who advanced the union’s mission over the past year. The annual fall event, which commemorates the 1960 strike that won collective bargaining rights for the UFT, honored 179 in-service and retired members.

The UFT rolled out the welcome wagon as some 1,500 new teachers signed up to join the union on opening day of the DOE’s New Teacher Week.

About 1,500 UFT members, family and friends gathered at the New York Hilton Midtown on Oct. 29 to honor the brave educators who put everything on the line in the 1960 strike that forged the union and the UFT activists who follow in their footsteps. This year, Teacher Union Day was dedicated to the Contract Action Teams.

In honor of LGBTQ+ History Month, the UFT Pride Committee is thrilled to invite middle and high school educators to the Making Gay History teacher symposium and celebration. This day-long event celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Making Gay History podcast and the launch of new teacher-created lessons designed to help you seamlessly incorporate LGBTQ+ history into the American story.