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The United Federation of Teachers (UFT) is the labor union that represents most teachers in New York City public schools. As of 2005, there were about 118,000 in-service teachers and nearly 30,000 [2] paraprofessional educators in the union, as well as about 54,000 retired members. In October 2007, 28,280 home day care providers voted to join ...
On April 15, 2010, the United Federation of Teachers, Mulgrew, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced an agreement to close temporary reassignment centers (TRCs), also known as "rubber rooms," where the Department of Education sent teachers and other employees who were being investigated or going through a hearing process. However, the ...
Despite a battle royale with the National Education Association (NEA), an infusion of cash by the AFT and the AFL–CIO enabled the UFT to win the December 16, 1961, election with 61.8 percent of the votes. In 1967, the New York state legislature passed the Taylor Law, which provided collective bargaining rights to public employees. Both the ...
Charles Cogen, president, New York's United Federation of Teachers, Local 2 of the American Federation of Teachers (AFL-CIO), 1963; photo courtesy of Walter Reuther Library, Wayne State University Charles Cogen (October 31, 1903 – February 18, 1998) was president of New York City's United Federation of Teachers (UFT) (1960–1964) and ...
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona met Monday with about half a dozen teachers and borrowers in New York City to mark the announcement of a newly proposed federal student debt relief plan that ...
The New York City Teachers Guild (1935-1960), AKA "Local 2, AFT" as of June 1941, was a progressive labor union that started as breakaway from the New York City Teachers Union and later merged into the United Federation of Teachers.
On July 14, 2008, Randi Weingarten, then the president of the United Federation of Teachers, was elected to succeed McElroy as AFT president. In September 2008, she announced the launch of the AFT Innovation Fund, a union-led, private foundation-supported effort to provide grants to AFT unions to develop and implement innovations in education ...
UFT may stand for: Upper fibers of trapezius; Unified field theory, a theory in physics; United Faculty of Theology in Melbourne, Victoria; United Federation of Teachers, a New York union; Universidade Federal do Tocantins, a Brazilian university; Finis Terrae University (Universidad Finis Terrae), a Chilean university