text: Women's Rights | United Federation of Teachers
  Carmen Alvarez, the UFT's first vice president for special education, and Ellen Procida, the former director of the union's Grievance Department, both recently retired, were honored at the union's HERstory brunch on March 31 at UFT headquarters in...
  The next big challenge for the UFT and the nonprofit Eleanor's Legacy is to make sure "the New York City Council accurately represents the 4 million women and girls who live in the city," said Brette McSweeney, the executive director of Eleanor's...
  March 25, 2018 Photo gallery
  HERstory celebrated the stories of the scores of women, past and present, who have helped build the UFT into the powerhouse it is today, at a Sunday brunch on March 25 at union headquarters in Manhattan.
  Mayor Bill de Blasio's decision to provide six weeks of paid parental leave to the city's 20,000 nonunion, managerial employees was welcome news to the city's labor leaders and advocates of enlightened labor policies but it came with a cost: the...