Join our Coalition in the UFT Elections!

To Our Fellow UFT Members:  

We are a Coalition of Working and Retired Educators and are excited to announce our intent to run in the 2025 UFT elections. Composed of three major UFT caucuses, all open for any UFT member to join, we bring decades of experience in bettering conditions for NYC educators. The coalition includes:

• Retiree Advocate: the caucus of UFT retirees that won the leadership of the Retired Teachers Chapter – along with its 300 delegates to the UFT Delegate Assembly – in last spring’s chapter elections. RA’s victory came on the heels of three years of advocacy in the fight to preserve traditional Medicare for NYC municipal retirees, and compelled the UFT to abandon its support of the city’s for-profit Medicare Advantage plan. Its actions have helped to ensure the preservation of healthcare for both current and future retirees.
• 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.