Working Conditions 

  1. Curriculum Autonomy: Defend teacher professionalism and agency in the selection and implementation of curriculum and end current UFT leadership's concessions on curriculum mandates.

  2. End Abusive Admin Practices: Address abusive administration practices, working to stop unfair working conditions and micromanagement. Share with members information about problematic schools. Utilize UFT organizers to help improve schools with problematic administrations.

  3. Protect Probationary Educators: Ensure probationary teachers are protected, preventing unjust firings by any abusive principal.

  4. Academic and Mental Health Support for Students: Fight for more school counselors, social workers, librarians, nurses and secretaries in every school.

  5. Transfers: Reform the Open Market Transfer system, limiting the principal’s ability to veto transfers and empowering experienced teachers in transferring to schools of their choice.

  6. Stand Up for OTs and PTs: Fight to end unfair working conditions impacting our Occupational and Physical Therapists, ensuring they have appropriate treatment space and supplies, paid 50 minute lunch, preparation/ paperwork time similar to colleagues, a master's differential that is commensurate with other professional titles, timely reimbursement for money owed, and a comprehensive transfer list with a transparent transfer process. 

  7. Fight for Per Diem Members: Bring back the per diem organizing committee and fight to organize a new per diem functional chapter to ensure that our per diem members are effectively represented by our union. Ensure per diem jobs are coded properly on Sub Central for the full, contractual 6 hours and 50 minutes so that subs are compensated properly. Enact protections that prevent principals from cancelling jobs less than 90 minutes before the start of the school day. Secure the right for per diem members to have letters to file removed after three years, as it is with other titles, and ensure that right is enforced.