2025 is the Year
We Transform our Union

We’re fighting for…

Fair Pay for All UFT Members

  • Ensure fair pay for all educators and raises that outpace inflation

  • Higher pay and yearly raises for paraprofessionals

  • End backroom contract deals and mobilize for the 2027 contract negotiations

Better Working Conditions

  • More school counselors, social workers, librarians, nurses and secretaries in every school

  • Teacher control over curriculum

  • Protection for probationary teachers, preventing unjust firings by abusive principals

  • 12 weeks of paid family leave

Healthcare

  • Stop increasing copays and other healthcare givebacks

  • Use the Welfare Fund surplus to improve benefits

  • Advocate for single-payer laws like the New York Health Act to permanently solve our healthcare crisis

Vote for the union educators and students deserve

We are the Alliance of Retired and In-Service Educators and are excited to announce our intent to run in the 2025 UFT elections. Composed of three major UFT caucuses, and open for any UFT member to join, we bring decades of experience in bettering conditions for NYC educators.