UFT Vice President for Non-DOE Members Anne Goldman testified before the City Council Committee on Health regarding community health planning.

The UFT submitted this testimony to the New York City Council Committee on Civil Service and Labor and the Committee on Higher Education regarding establishing the Murphy Institute as a new CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave U.S. high schools generally good marks for their teaching of sex education, but indicated in its Dec. 9 School Health Profiles report that many areas still need improvement.

The UFT supports policy measure to increase affordable housing in New York City including strengthening state laws to protect tenants and supporting Mayor de Blasio's plan to create 200,000 new units of low- and middle-income affordable housing by...

The UFT submitted this testimony to the New York City Council Committee on Education regarding Breakfast in the Classroom and Int. 0773-2015: Mandating School Meal Participation Reporting.

UFT Vice President for Non-DOE Members Anne Goldman testified before the New York State Office of Children and Family Services.

The UFT endorses Debra Penny for election as a teacher-member of the Teachers' Retirement System Board of the City of New York for a three-year term beginning in 2016.

The UFT stands firmly with all victims of terrorist atrocities throughout the world in declaring these acts for what they are: the work of cowards who do not believe in the principles of a democratic society.

The UFT urges Congress to give Medicare the power to negotiate drug prices, much like Medicaid and the Veterans Administration, to stabilize the market and establish competition among the drug manufacturers.