Federation of Nurses/UFT members on Jan. 29 ratified a contract with the Visiting Nurse Service of New York that raises salaries, protects members’ pensions and existing health care benefits, and improves safety provisions.

Enrollment in teacher preparation programs has declined across the United States by more than a third since 2010, according to a new study from the Center for American Progress

 Massachusetts adopted a law on Nov. 26 that will provide an additional $1.5 billion to the state’s school districts.

Thousands of red-garbed educators and their supporters marched through Indianapolis on Nov. 19 for a Red for Ed Action Day to demand improvements to public education in Indiana.

Bright Horizons Day Care workers in downtown Brooklyn have triumphantly pinned their “Union Proud” buttons back on to celebrate winning a National Labor Relations Board settlement in October that ensures the UFT members "have the right to wear union buttons and other union insignia in the workplace.”

The UFT Welfare Fund has announce a new and innovative program with EmblemHealth that the UFT Welfare Fund has been able to attain to help UFT-represented employees suffering from the Hepatitis C virus.