Your rights as new members

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As UFT members, you have rights on the job — rights to professional and fair treatment and to working conditions that help make a tough job more doable. These rights have been negotiated in a give-and-take process with management. It’s important to become familiar with your rights and exercise them.

• Supplies
• Class size
• Length of school day
• Integrated Co-Teaching (ICT)
• Parental and child care leave
• Paraprofessionals' responsibilities
• Grievances
• Transferring schools
• Excessing

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