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2.5% raises take effect May 14
The salaries of UFT-represented city Department of Education employees will increase by 2.5% effective May 14, 2020.
State budget spares schools from cuts
With the coronavirus pandemic wreaking economic havoc, the UFT successfully avoided large-scale cuts to public school funding in the New York State budget signed on April 3 for the upcoming fiscal year.
Brooklyn school fights off charter’s expansion
The UFT helps parents and the community thwart the expansion of a co-located charter school in Brooklyn.
Prime peril for profit
As consumers increasingly rely on Amazon for their shopping needs during the coronavirus crisis, the company’s workers say the digital giant is putting their health in peril to turn a profit.
Delegate meetings go remote
The March and April Delegate Assembly meetings took place in unusual formats because of the coronavirus pandemic.
UFT hospital nurses on front lines
UFT hospital nurses find strength in each other and in their union on the front lines of the coronavirus battle.
Mayor calls for $827M in city school cuts
Facing a projected $7.4 billion budget gap caused by the coronavirus pandemic, Mayor Bill de Blasio has proposed slashing $827 million from public schools through the next fiscal year.
UFT hospital nurses fight virus on front lines
Federation of Nurses/UFT members on the front lines of the coronavirus battle are finding strength in each other and in their union at NYU Langone Hospital–Brooklyn and at Staten Island University Hospital South.