deep inside the darkest moment there is a sudden burst of light movement that illuminates ignorance beyond disbelief at the same time the sky breaks its promise to heaven and falls the black sun tries to re-ignite when out of the blue the weather...

The Union agrees to maintain its eligibility to represent counselors by continuing to admit persons to membership without discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, handicapping...

The Union agrees to maintain its eligibility to represent all teachers by continuing to admit persons to membership without discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, handicapping...

The Union agrees to maintain its eligibility to represent school secretaries by continuing to admit persons to membership without discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, marital status, sexual orientation...

A. Reimbursement for Medical Expenses Teachers shall be reimbursed by the Board for reasonable medical expenses, not exceeding $750, incurred because of injuries in the line of duty, to the extent that such expenses are not covered by insurance. In...

The Union agrees to maintain its eligibility to represent attendance teachers by continuing to admit persons to membership without discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, sex or marital status, sexual orientation...

UFT President Michael Mulgrew had a wide-ranging discussion with high school educators from Brooklyn and the Brooklyn and Staten Island HS district (BASIS) at a gathering at Brooklyn Tech HS on April 16. Among the topics discussed were the upcoming...

While UFT President Michael Mulgrew brought the capacity crowd from Districts 16 and 23 at the Meet the President gathering on April 23 up to date on scores of current issues, he put the focus on the future, what he called “the bigger discussion —...

The youngest of seven children, Martha Straus grew up on the Lower East Side. "There was no starvation but there were no luxuries either," she says. Her father and older brother took part in the 1910 cloak makers strike that came to be known as "the...

He hated supervisors with a serious passion. To him, all the raises in the world wouldn't change the fact that teachers were forced to work in a system he called "a thinly veiled despotism."