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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 May 12, 2014, Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers, acknowledged the new contract proposal left undefined the definition of 'problematic behavior', and said a panel of hearing officers would solidify the definition of problematic behavior. "If someone says a teacher is screaming in the hallway, that's a problem ...
Weingarten stepped down from her post as president of the United Federation of Teachers on July 31, 2009. An opinion piece in the New York Post on January 16, 2011, characterized Weingarten's final paycheck from the UFT—which included payments for unused vacation days and sick time—as a $194,188 "golden parachute." [13]
Leaders of the United Federation of Teachers urged teachers to print out and distribute “red cards,” advocated by immigrant advocates, which spell out an asylum seeker’s Constitutional right ...
The United Teachers of Dade needs to prove that 60% of Miami-Dade teachers are dues paying members. The last tally, conducted on Nov. 10, put that number at just 58.4%.
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 ...
The report, published Tuesday by the American Federation of Teachers, which represents 1.7 million educators, health care workers and government employees, focuses on troubling labor practices at ...
The United Federation of Teachers (UFT), led by Albert Shanker, demanded the teachers' reinstatement and accused the community-controlled school board of anti-semitism. At the start of the school year in September 1968, the UFT held a strike that shut down New York City's public schools for nearly two months, leaving a million students without ...