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We regret to announce that the AFT NHP Professional Issues Conference has been postponed until further notice.
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Nurses and Healthcare News
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08/12/2020
‘In the AFT, we encourage voting—our country’s future depends on it’
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07/30/2020
AFT delegates pass a raft of bold, progressive resolutions
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07/30/2020
Americans are on the brink of historic change, Biden tells convention
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07/30/2020
Honoring Diane Ravitch and stoking the fight for public education
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07/30/2020
AFT honors a longtime champion of public education
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07/30/2020
Lin-Manuel Miranda on the arts, teaching and our democracy
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07/30/2020
Climate change is hurting workers and kids
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07/29/2020
Continuing the conversation on racism
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RT @rweingarten: My hope is that we as nurses can help empower people, and let them know this isn’t just like, one bullet hitting somebody…
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RT @rweingarten: Thank you, President Biden, for reinstating these protections that were cruelly taken away. As trans communities are under…
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RT @rweingarten: In these last days of #NursesWeek2021, I invite our @AFTunion community to take a moment to say thank you to the people th…
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