Caring for the whole child is who we are and it is what we do. That’s why the UFT is calling upon you once again to bring the ...

Delegates overwhelmingly approved a resolution on Oct. 15 to continue supporting the "RESPECT check" campaign and to participate in a citywide day of action on Nov. 13 — the new date of the City ...

A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s plans to lay off thousands of federal workers during the government shutdown, siding with unions, which have argued that the dismissals ...

The city Department of Education has released this year’s allotments for the Teacher’s Choice program, which reimburses eligible UFT members for some of the supplemental instructional supplies they ...

Research shows that students who participate in social-emotional learning (SEL) programs do better in school — both academically and socially. Not only do student achievement scores rise with exposure ...

Retired UFT members joined Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walks across the five boroughs and on Long Island in October. Retirees contributed in other ways as well. At the Staten Island Si Beagle ...

Hundreds of UFT members knocked on doors across the city and worked the phones to campaign for Zohran Mamdani and the union’s other endorsed candidates in the weeks leading up to the mayoral election.

In the weeks leading up to the Nov. 4 election, the Retired Teachers Chapter held a dozen afternoon phone banks at UFT headquarters in Manhattan, where RTC members urged fellow retirees to vote for ...

New York City workers and their families can now rest assured that they will have premium-free health care coverage for the next five years thanks to the new New York City Employees PPO health plan.

The Trump administration is targeting the jobs of more than 450 workers in the U.S. Department of Education as part of a reduction in force during the government shutdown. Among the casualties would ...

Joining more than 7 million protesters nationwide, more than 200 UFT members marched up Sixth Avenue in Manhattan alongside members from other New York City unions as part of the No Kings March on Oct ...

The NYC Employees PPO (NYCE PPO) health care plan will replace the GHI CBP plan for in-service city workers and pre-Medicare retirees on Jan. 1, 2026. The following are answers to members’ most common ...