Staff Organizer For covering Pratt’s Manhattan and Brooklyn, NY campuses UFCT 1460 is the Pratt Faculty Union. We won our first collective bargaining agreement in 1973. Our union represents around 1,500 faculty including full-time Tenure Track and Tenured faculty and librarians, full-time non-Tenure Track faculty, adjuncts (to whom our CBA ensures job security), and visiting faculty (who are contingent). Pratt is a school of art, design, and architecture - so most faculty

Thanks to the successful efforts of our Union, the other campus unions, and the faculty Senate in pushing back against the cuts administration made to the High Deductible Health Care Plan for FT and CCE members, we won back most of what management tried to take away! They may claim that they added the HRA due to “feedback,” (Benefits email of May 11th) but it was due to the organizing efforts of you and members like you that they were forced to make amends for the cuts they p

We suggest you set aside a few minutes to read Hakan Topol’s recent article in Hyperallergic, “The Death of the Art School.” It is a great reminder of the systemic issues we’re facing, and just what is at stake!

On Wednesday April 29th at 12:30, members held a rally on the lawn at the Pratt Brooklyn campus to demonstrate our power in response to the cuts that Pratt administration is trying to make to adjunct workloads and to the Architecture Writing Program. In addition to great member turnout, students and staff joined us in solidarity, because we all know that cuts to teaching are cuts to learning!! The rally brought management back to the negotiating table on the issue and won wo

Our last General Membership Meeting (GMM) for the Spring semester 2026 was held on April 27th. It focused on preliminary contract preparations for 2027. As President Emily Beall noted, widespread member participation is essential to winning a strong contract in 2027!!  Attendees split into four breakout rooms to discuss issues of importance to them for the next bargaining negotiation. We will be using this input to build a bargaining-priorities survey which will go out to a

The new Executive Committee is now in office and we’re eager to get to work for and with you all! Thank you for putting your confidence in us. To get in touch, please use the following email addresses: President Emily Beall, president@ufct1460.org Vice President Audrey Lindsey, vp@ufct1460.org Treasurer Daniel Wright, treasurer@ufct1460.0rg Secretary Sarah Wilkins, secretary@ufct1460.org Additionally, most departments have delegates serving on the UFCT 1460 Delegates Assemb

Under the Collective Bargaining Agreement between Pratt and UFCT Local 1460, Pratt committed $1,000,000 in equalization funds (2022–2027) to address minimum compensation rates and salary inequities among full- and part-time faculty. These funds are being distributed over three years: $400,000 in AY 2023–24, $400,000 in AY 2024–25, and $200,000 in AY 2025–26. The Equalization Fund for Fall 2025 has now been complete eligible faculty. 143 faculty were adjusted, and those receiv

UFCT 1460 Presidential Election Results Emily Beall will be the new President of UFCT 1460. Emily Beall, the President-elect, will join Audrey Lindsey (Vice President), Sarah Wilkins (Secretary), and Dan Wright (Treasurer) as the union’s new Executive Committee starting on January 1, 2026. Many congratulations to our newly elected leadership team! On behalf of the Nominations & Elections Committee, many thanks to everyone who participated in this year’s election process.

Candidate Statement — Professor Harriet Harriss (PhD) for UFCT President I am standing for the presidency of the United Federation of College Teachers at Pratt because our community - our shared labor, care, and creative freedom - is under assault. The Institute’s proposed cuts to healthcare, framed as “necessary adjustments,” are in truth regressive redistributions of financial burden that strike hardest at the most vulnerable among us: initiated at the same time that Pratt’

Emily Beall: All In for UFCT Local 1460 My name is Emily Beall. I’m an Adjunct Assistant Professor w/CCE in the Humanities and Media Studies department, and I am running for UFCT 1460 President as leader of the All In Slate with officers-elect Audrey Lindsey, Daniel Wright, and Sarah Wilkins. We are committed to building a democratic, supermajority union: these are the unions winning material improvements in working people’s lives – and that are capable of fighting against