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United Faculty of Florida
United Faculty of Florida (UFF) is a labor union that represents faculty and professional staff in the State University System of Florida and at three independent colleges in Florida. It also represents graduate assistants at four of the state universities. It was originally an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers but since 1980 has been affiliated with the National Education Association.

UFF was formed in 1974 by a merger of the Florida university's local of the American Federation of Teachers, headed by Ken Megill, and the Florida Higher Education Association, headed by Benjamin Stevens.

UFF defeated Florida Academic Conference 1984 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1320&dat=19841106&id=Pz1WAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1ekDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7066,2164328&hl=en

April 1982 Vote to join NEA https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1873&dat=19820417&id=HFIfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MtIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2403,716101&hl=en https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1320&dat=19820417&id=AjxWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mukDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7058,3192691&hl=en https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1873&dat=19820416&id=G1IfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MtIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2998,102739&hl=en

1981 Overwhelming rejection of contract https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=19810804&id=nE80AAAAIBAJ&sjid=AGgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6612,1720653&hl=en

March 1975 facultly will vote if they want collective bargaining - read it https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19750324&id=VQUOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fXkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7245,124107&hl=en

January 1982 AFT will expel UFF https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=19820131&id=NfIcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HGgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5299,7143536&hl=en

October 1984 now nEA affiliated against new Academic Congress https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1320&dat=19841009&id=HMIRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uukDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5845,3018773&hl=en https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1320&dat=19841005&id=GMIRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uukDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2988,1621770&hl=en

November 1984 UFF wins vote https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1346&dat=19841106&id=3O4vAAAAIBAJ&sjid=n_sDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4875,2475230&hl=en https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1356&dat=19841106&id=5VwxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=TwYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4838,3498504&hl=en

History
Although there were small, powerless antecedents, the history of UFF begins with astatutory change in the early 1970s that