Your union, then and now
UFT Photo Collection, Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University
A. Philip Randolph was the founder and president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and co-organizer of the March on Washington. With Shanker’s help he founded the A. Philip Randolph Institute to promote and strengthen the labor-Civil Rights coalition. He is here pictured marching in a picket line of teachers alongside Al Shanker during the Mass Resignation Rally, 1967.
March 2010 marked the 50th anniversary of the union’s formation, the beginning of its remarkable growth and extraordinary power and influence. Those 50 years of triumphs and advocacy have strengthened the education profession and New York City public schools.
"From the beginning, UFT members have been making positive contributions to this city," said UFT President Michael Mulgrew. "We’ve moved the system forward during good times and bad. The profession has come so far in 50 years, and it’s important for people to know about that journey."
- Finding Common Cause: The early years
- Albert Shanker: Prophetic reformer
- The Feldman Years: From labor union to union of professionals
- The Weingarten years
- Not for teachers only
- People Power: The UFT and political action
- A collective advantage
- The UFT's work is far from finished
- The contract becomes a tool for school reform
- UFT's connection to rest of organized labor
- Teacher quality and the UFT
