The United Federation of Teachers’ Delegate Assembly authorizes the Executive Board to consider, make or modify endorsements during the summer.

New York City Council members, joined by NAACP representatives, advocates, parent leaders and the UFT, launched a campaign to increase school diversity and credit multiple measures of student success at a press conference in the City Hall rotunda on...

Three busloads of UFT members joined some 10,000 students, parents and educators in Albany on June 8 for the massive One Voice United rally organized by New York State United Teachers, the UFT’s state affiliate. The crowd stretched across the Empire...

Since coming into office nearly 12 years ago, Mayor Bloomberg has come across as impervious to criticism and often arrogant in his assurance that he is always right. Lately, though, he has been a little thin-skinned.

The UFT supports the participation of the UFT Retired Teachers Chapter, a constituent member of the Alliance for Retired Americans, in the "human chain against the chained CPI" activities on July 2 and will help to coordinate the union’s efforts...

Politics is union business. In hard economic times, political action is needed more than ever. Every member needs to enroll in UFT COPE.

Successful political action requires that each of us is proactive in contacting our elected representatives to advocate on behalf of ourselves and our union. You can look up your city, state and federal elected officials by entering your New York...

The UFT Political Action Department is active in a wide variety of political battles across the city in support of New York’s children and schools.