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Fired nurses get their jobs back
Nine Federation of Nurses/UFT members who were unfairly stripped of their livelihoods have won back their jobs at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn in one of the biggest arbitration victories that the UFT has ever achieved for unlawful terminations
National test results show little progress
Reading scores dropped to a new low on the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress while math scores were stagnant for 8th-graders and up slightly for 4th-graders.

Trump guts national labor board
The National Labor Relations Board is at a standstill after President Donald Trump fired board chair Gwynne Wilcox, a Democratic appointee, leaving a total of three vacancies on the five-member panel and ensuring it does not have a quorum to conduct business.
Federal workforce under attack
In the latest salvo in its bid to control and reduce the size of the federal workforce, the Trump administration has decreed that ÐãÐãÖ±²¥contract provisions permitting telework for federal employees are invalid because they conflict with management prerogatives.
UFT’s large and diverse ‘family’
Union leaders and representatives from the union’s private, nonprofit and Department of Education functional chapters gathered at ÐãÐãÖ±²¥headquarters on Jan. 16 to kick off a new ÐãÐãÖ±²¥initiative intended to showcase and amplify the work of members in the diverse titles and collective bargaining units in the UFT.
Lincoln Center teaching artists approve new contract
Teaching artists at Lincoln Center, who are represented by the UFT, have reached agreement on a new five-year contract with significant economic gains and more input to help shape the type of education they provide.