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MORE OF MULGREW’S HEALTHCARE MESS: MLC now opting to impose much higher tiered copays on city workers and their families.
With looming tiered copays for select hospitals and providers -- we can’t afford Mulgrew anymore! In this UFT election, we must vote for A Better…
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Michael Mulgrew’s monumental healthcare mess: The indictment that must send him home packing
As the UFT election begins full swing, and the city workers and retirees reel from Mulgrew's healthcare mess, the MLC sues City for the ill-fated deals…
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Talk Out of School podcast: Audrey Watters on the dangers of using AI in the classroom
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A Conversation with UFT presidential candidate, Amy Arundell - Part 1
Amy Arundell shares her journey and decision to join A Better Contract in the 2025 election.
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Fix Para Pay For Real - No More Backroom Deals
Fix Para Pay, the rank and file paraprofessional slate of the UFT, responds to the proposed City Council legislation by the current UFT leadership to…
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UFT: Are you ready to lose GHI-CBP?
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Statement from Bennett Fischer, Chapter Leader Elect of the UFT Retired Teachers Chapter
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Op-Ed: How the Proposed Contract Attacks Our Pension and Healthcare Benefits
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The 'theft' of the UFT’s Retiree Chapter Facebook Group by Mulgrew’s Unity caucus: Open letter to UFT top leadership
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Talk Out of School The best and worst in education during 2024, and our hopes for 2025
with Leonie Haimson, Dr. Kaliris Salas-Ramirez and Daniel Alicea
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Urgent Call To Action: Tell City and union bosses to — Get Out of Our Pockets! End Retiree Copays, Pass Intro 1096
Join this letter/email campaign by NYC retirees and active workers seeking to end the erosion of our benefits.
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Mulgrew's Admin Unity Caucus Tries to Hide Their Years of Diminishing Our Healthcare
As the 2025 UFT election ramps up, Unity desperately seeks to take the focus off what they did to our healthcare and refusal to atone. They've enlisted…
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Mulgrew's Unity UFT caucus uses its outsized power to change our trusted union election vendor, AAA, for a Wall Street holding company with…
After losing the retiree and para chapter elections, Mulgrew's Unity caucus uses its outsized power in leadership to change vendors for our UFT…
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URGENT CALL TO ACTION: SIGN THE 'CLASS SIZE MATTERS' PETITION CALLING FOR A REAL, MULTI-YEAR PLAN TO LOWER CLASS SIZE
Right now, DOE is proposing to exempt all overcrowded schools from ever having to provide smaller classes -- schools which enroll as many as half of all…
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Mulgrew had $450m in his hands to pay paras more and he chose not to! -- With no real plan to FIX PARA PAY, he and his Unity Caucus shift…
While Mulgrew gives lip service to 'reforming para pay' to help deal with the citywide para shortage, this newly leaked document shows just how much he…
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CEEF Foundation Aid Virtual Teach-In: Learn more about Foundation Aid and its impact
A special invitation for a virtual teach-in on December 9th from AQE and The Coalition for Equitable Education Funding
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Concerns with testing: SHSAT, Regents exams, digital SAT, & more with Akil Bello
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Central Park East: 50 Years of Progressive Education
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UFT Members Update: Two Petitions Call For Increased Member and Teacher Voice
A UFT members grassroots movement takes hold as hundreds of rank and file educators join in calls for a better, stronger UFT that includes all of our…
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Urgent call to action for all UFT members: Sign the petition calling for in-person and/or electronic voting options for our union-wide…
In addition to mail-in ballots, it’s time UFT members also have the choice to vote in-person and/or electronically. -- tinyurl.com/uftvotes
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