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There were three clues at last Wednesday's Delegate Assembl y that just added to the mountain of proof that the UFT no longer exists as ...

I arrived at this party a little late today but I still feel compelled to jump on the blog bandwagon to defend the indomitable, inspirationa...

A slow train ride so I am a little late. President's Report I got here when Mulgrew was talking a bit about the Friedrichs US Suprem...

Hillary Clinton recently made a factual remark  about charter schools that is causing some controversy.  This is from Politico : Former Se...

I have as much respect and enthusiasm as a human being could possibly have for the opt-out from standardized testing movement that has spr...

It is hard to believe that it was 55 years ago today on November 7, 1960 that the newly formed United Federation of Teachers launched an il...

UFT members are again receiving bonus payments from the last round of collective bargaining covering 2009-2011. This time it is for per sess...

Mayor Bill de Blasio is in negative territory in recent polls.  The latest Wall Street Journal-NBC-Marist poll has him at 38% approval vers...

New House Speaker Paul Ryan would fit in nicely at the UFT/DOE as he told Fox yesterday that he is against paid leaves for new parents just...

As I'm trying to catch up on the news for the week in the midst of a fairly busy schedule, I noticed something a little odd: some of the...

This message went out to Absent Teacher Reserves on email and was sent to the ATR Alliance on Facebook. Everyone who could not vote or run i...

The email below was sent from UFT personnel specialist Amy Arundell to an ATR. As some of us have said in the past, the reason ATR's are...

The MORE-NEW ACTION electoral coalition announced today in Brooklyn that Jia Lee will be its candidate for UFT President in 2016. The announ...

Four of us have filed a complaint with the Federal Department of Labor claiming that the UFT Chapter election process is unfair to Absent Te...

Four UFT members who all signed onto a protest to the UFT and AFT on behalf of Absent Teacher Reserves have agreed to go to the federal Depa...

Many of us warned the UFT leadership that we were going into uncharted territory with the new teacher evaluation system.  Before the UFT agr...

Has anyone yet figured out if their salary adjustment is correct? Below is page 4 of my Salary Adjustment Notice from 2014 for the mi...

The Unity Caucus is Michael Mulgrew's faction of the UFT.  They are the majority political party in the union.  At the first Delegate As...

Mulgrew's President's Report National Debate about issues among Democrats last night. Good to see it is a national issue to put b...

For those of you who are interested in changing the UFT, all of us will have our opportunity in 2016 as it is a UFT election year.  All of t...