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.
The coalition includes:
Retiree Advocate: the current leaders of the UFT’s Retired Teachers Chapter, including 300 delegates at the DA. The advocacy of these members led to the UFT abandoning its ill-thought embrace of for-profit Medicare Advantage, protecting the healthcare of current and future retired members.
Movement of Rank and File Educators: one of the largest caucuses in the UFT, MORE has been fighting for racial and social justice within the union and education system in New York City since its founding in 2011. MORE members currently serve on the UFT Executive Board and as Chapter Leaders and Delegates at numerous schools. With a commitment to school-based organizing, MORE works to develop leaders at the school level to transform our schools and our union.
New Action: one of the longest running caucuses in the UFT, with roots back to the 1980s, New Action has a storied history of organizing our union, both past and present. We have fought to achieve pay parity with surrounding districts, supported school chapters fighting abusive administrations, led voting campaigns that resulted in successful contract renegotiations, and made calls for major pension reforms. New Action has run in and won in UFT elections for decades, using officer and executive board seats to advocate for our members.
Our groups are united by a powerful vision of a just and democratic UFT that champions fair pay, better working conditions, and access to high-quality, premium-free healthcare from our first days on the job to our golden years of retirement. But our vision reaches even further: we believe that the work we do to strengthen and uplift UFT members will create a ripple effect, transforming not only our workplaces but also the communities we serve, creating a more equitable and thriving New York City for all.
We invite you to join our slate and fight for a better tomorrow in the UFT.
