Teacher Union Day Honorees

Teacher Union Day is our annual commemoration of the strike that put the newly formed UFT on the path to becoming the activist organization it is today. The power of our union is in all of its members.

Each year the UFT honors past leaders who continue to inspire us and recognize current members who are leading us into the future.

Congratulations to this year's honorees! 

Charles Cogen Award

• LeRoy Barr, UFT Secretary

Jules Kolodny Award

Members of the UFT Health Care Committee

David Wittes Award

Recognizing the Occupational and Physical Therapists Chapter's successful campaign to shift from BERS to TRS pension system

Sidney Harris Award

• Arthur Gnecco, Allison Ruina and Theresa Schneider
  Mosaic Pre-K Center
• Brenda Caquias
  Assistant Chapter Leader, Speech Improvement

Backer-Scheintaub Awards

• Members of the Federation of Nurses/UFT negotiating team at NYU Langone Hospital–Brooklyn

Marsh/Raimo Awards

Richard Procida Award

• John Harrington

Albert Lee Smallheiser Awards

• Karen Cooper
  Birch Family Services
• Emma Kukielski, Michael Langley, Patricia McNamara, Rachell Rosario-Baez, Isaac Selchaif and Matthew Williams
  Boerum Hill School for International Studies
  In recognition for organizing against Success Academy
• Brian Boggan, Jesus Caceres, Seth Gilman, Marilyn Martin and Andrew Pecunia
  Walton Campus chapter leaders

Ely Trachtenberg Awards

(School: Chapter Leader)

Elementary Schools

Junior High/Middle Schools

High Schools

District 75

• P993Q: Robert Roszkowski
• P177Q: Ana Maria Mercado
• John F. Kennedy Jr. School (Q): Mara Baboff

District 79

• Bushwick Community HS (K): Damaris Santiago
• Harlem Renaissance HS (M): Joy Yearwood
• LYFE (Q): Katherine Lange-Roberson

Functional Chapters

• Audiologists: Susan Kavanagh

Special Recognition to the Families

• Ronald Jones
  former Vice President for Elementary Schools
• Richard Miller
  former Vice President for Middle Schools