Fed up with stalled contract negotiations, the United Federation of Teachers is expected to cast a vote today that could provide a framework for a strike.

The delegate assembly, a body of teachers representing all city schools, is scheduled to meet this afternoon at the Marriott hotel in downtown Brooklyn. The teachers union president, Randi Weingarten, said she expects talks to get heated.

Ms. Weingarten told The New York Sun yesterday that she was sure the delegate assembly would discuss holding a vote on whether to strike. “The members are very angry and the delegates are very angry. So the delegate assembly tomorrow will be very hot. But I don’t want to talk publicly about what may or may not be discussed,” she said.

Today’s meeting was moved to Brooklyn from its usual spot at 52 Broadway in Manhattan, the union’s headquarters, to accommodate the almost 2,000 members expected to attend.

Union insiders expect they will vote on a resolution outlining options to finalize a contract – including when, and under what conditions, the city’s 83,000 teachers would walk off the job.

The state’s Taylor Law forbids teachers from striking, threatening hefty fines and jail time.

A spokesman for the mayor, Jordan Barowitz, declined to comment on the possibility of a strike, but said the administration was in constant communication with the union.

“The labor commissioner has spoken to the UFT numerous times over the last week,” he said.

Teachers are entering their third school year without a contract.

A state labor panel issued a report last week that calls for a 11.4% total raise for teachers over three years in exchange for teachers working an extra 10 minutes per day in addition to the 20 minutes added to the last contract. The panel’s report also would remove teachers’ ability to challenge negative evaluations.

The union asked the state’s Public Employment Relations Board to get involved in December when formal negotiations reached an impasse.

The recommendations are nonbinding but officials of both the union and administration had previously indicated that the report would be used to move negotiations forward.

Yesterday, Ms. Weingarten joined other UFT members, employees of United Cerebral Palsy of New York, Incorporated, who are also gathering steam for a possible strike.

Leading chants and handing out fliers, Ms. Weingarten accompanied the couple of dozen workers protesting outside one of the agency’s treatment centers on East 23rd Street. The union represents almost 700 workers for the agency, which serves about 10,000 patients citywide. The workers, whose contract expires at the end of the month, are demanding more pay and better health benefits.

A vote is planned next week to authorize the negotiating committee to call a strike.

“Whether it’s United Cerebral Palsy workers or whether it’s teachers in classrooms,” Ms. Weingarten said, “They are fed up.”