November justice conference unites three NYSUT committees

Activists gathered in Albany for the NYSUT Justice Conference in November, a first-ever joint meeting of the union’s Civil and Human Rights, LGBTQ+ and Women’s committees. The member activists gathered for a weekend filled with inspiration, and a shared commitment to uplift voices, celebrate diversity and advance social justice in communities statewide.

Indigenous schools help preserve native culture for future generations

Indigenous schools help preserve native culture for future generations

Free NYSUT poster celebrates Native American Heritage Month, Nov. 1-30

Free NYSUT poster celebrates Native American Heritage Month, Nov. 1-30

NYSUT Pathways to Leadership program graduates inaugural class

NYSUT Pathways to Leadership program graduates inaugural class

FREE NYSUT poster celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month

NYSUT celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month, Sept. 15 through Oct. 15, with a new poster honoring Nydia M. Velázquez a representative for New York's 7th Congressional District.

NYSUT 2024 Social Justice Academy graduates nine new locals

In an unassuming brick building along the outskirts of Albany’s downtown, a team of NYSUT members were hard at work. The group, the 2024 cohort of the NYSUT Social Justice Academy, washed windows, painted walls, sorted books, raked lawns, and unloaded supplies to help prepare the South End Children’s Café for a fall opening at its newly purchased site, the former home of a local church.

This July, Celebrate Disability Pride Month!

In July, Disability Pride Month celebrates the anniversary of the ADA’s passage and the work of activists like Heumann. The theme for 2024 is “We Want a Life Like Yours,” reflecting the disability community’s strive for equality.

Celebrate Juneteenth!

Resources and tools are available to help you celebrate Juneteenth – including a special online panel discussion Monday at 5:30 p.m. Join us!

NYSUT Poster Celebrates Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

NYSUT celebrates Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with a new poster honoring May Chen, an American labor organizer and advocate for immigrant workers who helped organize the 1982 garment workers’ strike, one of the largest Asian American worker actions in history. Twenty thousand primarily Chinese and Hong Kong immigrant women workers marched from Manhattan’s Chinatown to Columbus Park, rallying for safer working conditions, better wages and for management to observe the Confucian principles of fairness and respect.

NYSUT celebrates student artists at inaugural exhibition

For the inaugural juried student art exhibition held at NYSUT’s Tarrytown Regional Office, local students were asked to use NYSUT’s “Many Threads, One Fabric” theme to create original works of art that explore and embrace the histories, cultures and contributions of the many diverse peoples that make up our world.

Challenges of teaching Black history focus of February program

The “Power of Education” was the theme of a February Black History Month Thought Leaders Forum moderated by J. Philippe Abraham, NYSUT secretary treasurer.

NYSUT named top fundraising company nationwide for supporting Making Strides Against Breast Cancer

NYSUT is being nationally recognized as the number one organization across the country for its contributions to the American Cancer Society’s 2023 Making Strides Against Breast Cancer campaign.