The United Federation of Teachers has five offices in each borough. This is a labor union for teachers so there are a lot of members. This is a private company just for teachers and others like teachers. The United Federation of Teachers Printing and Mailing Department’s primary business is to due printing for clients, and mailing. The clients for United Federation of Teachers’ Printing and Mailing Department is teachers, schools and other non-profit organization.  I worked only within the Printing and Mailing Department.

United Federation of Teachers was founded on March 16, 1960.

Key Events:

1960: The Teachers Guild merges with high school teachers to form the United Federation of Teachers.

1962: First comprehensive teacher contract in the nation is achieved, a one-year agreement.

1966: The United Federation of Teachers Welfare Fund provides supplementary benefits such as free prescription drugs, eyeglasses, a dental plan and many others.

1969: United Federation of Teachers contract shrinks time to top salary, offers pay to cover teacher absences, creates United Federation of Teachers College Scholarship Fund. The city agrees the pension-improvement law (later called Tier I)

1970: The United Federation of Teachers allowed Paraprofessionals to joined.

1985: United Federation of Teachers president Al Shanker announces his year-end retirement to concentrate on AFT.

1986: United Federation of Teachers Executive Board elects Feldman president.

1990: United Federation of Teachers wins 100 contractual improvements to working conditions, professionalism. New York City schools reach one million school children.

1997: As Mayor Giuliani favors parochial schools, United Federation of Teachers stands up for public ones. Former president of United Federation of Teachers Albert Shanker dies.

2000: United Federation of Teachers forms Class Size Coalition, wins biggest pension improvements in 30 years, per session victory, but contract talks stall.

2009:  Michael Mulgrew becomes United Federation of Teachers president.

2010: United Federation of Teachers celebrates 50 years.

 

The first article was about how the cutter machine has made Oscar and his employees’ lives easier and discusses how he obtains it.

The second article was about Oscar and his employees work efforts and how they maintain their business at the Printing and Mailing Department.

http://whattheythink.com/news/81611-new-yorks-united-federation-teachers-plant-sold-colter-petersons-prism-paper-cutter/

‘No Problem’ Printing

The attire of the company is informal attire in which employees wears a blue polo shirt or a blue collar shirt with the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) logo. I come to work wearing casual clothing such as a light sweater, jean, and sneakers. I wear a light sweater because the air conditioner is on for the machines that get overheated so fast. A typical day for an employee is to arrive at 9:00 am take care of anything or eat before 10 am because that the time we worked. Do work till 1 pm because this is the hour of lunch. We come eat in the pantry, eat outside or anywhere in the Printing and Mailing department as long as it cleaned up. Go back to work, at 2 pm follow by 5 pm to pack up and waited till for 5:15 pm to leave and go home.

The supervisor for the internship was Oscar Rivera; he is the manager of the Printing and Mailing Department. I emailed Oscar a week before he interviews me. The day of the interview he was sick so asked to have my interview reschedule the following day. The following day, I went and Oscar was there. He greeted me and began the interview. He asked me about the design I had done on my website and I answered him. Afterwards, he showed me around the department and meant with other employers. We got back to his office to speak about when I starts he said the following Monday June 20, 2016. Finally I questioned him about the internship such as:

How long is this internship? Summer ends

Is this internship going to get me a credited? Yes

And ended with saying goodbyes and see you on Monday. I was happy about getting an internship for the Internship credit. I also met Kenneth from my Internship class in order to get his credit as well.