The UFT will continue to educate and inform its members of their healthcare benefits and affirms its commitment to the HIV/AIDS community by supporting this bill and urge its state affiliate NYSUT to help the UFT by pushing to get this bill passed in Albany.

The UFT will continue to raise our collective voices towards achieving a fair, just and representative contract.

The UFT urges City Council Committee on Education to amend Intro 2211 to not transfer authority over school safety agents to DOE authority.

We have a City Council that is considering passing a once-in-a-generation bill that would make physical space per student into administrative code, to make it the city’s responsibility to give each child the physical space they deserve to remain safe and provide us a legal recourse to pursue when class size capacities are violated.

The union will urge all Council members to select a woman for City Council Speaker when the new Council convenes in January 2022.

The UFT endorses 48 candidates to represent their respective districts as City Council members for the 2022-23 two-year term.