Press Releases

06/14/17

AFT Blasts Trump on Actions Involving Predatory For-Profit Schools

06/12/17

AFT on Stanford University’s CREDO Study of For-Profit Charter Schools

06/01/17

AFT’s Weingarten on President Trump’s Withdrawal from Paris Agreement

05/30/17

Sí, se puede: Cesar Chavez Charter School Educators File Union Petition

05/30/17

University of Pennsylvania Graduate Employees File Petition to Form Union with AFT

05/24/17

AFT Statement on Christine Pellegrino’s Victory

05/24/17

AFT’s Weingarten on CBO Score

05/23/17

AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump’s Higher Education Cuts

05/23/17

AFT Leaders on Failure of Yale University to Negotiate with Its Graduate Employees

05/23/17

AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump’s Healthcare Cuts

05/23/17

AFT President Randi Weingarten: ‘Trump’s Budget Proposal Is Manifestly Cruel to Kids’

05/22/17

AFT President Randi Weingarten on DeVos American Federation for Children Speech

05/22/17

At West Virginia Public School, AFT President Rips Trump Budget Cuts

05/22/17

AFT’s Weingarten on Flawed Bellwether Education Report on Teacher Pensions

05/20/17

AFT Stands in Solidarity with AT&T Strikers

Press Credentials at AFT Convention

Convention speeches will be open to the press. All press wishing to attend and cover the convention must RSVP to AFTPress@aft.org and request credentials, which can be picked up in the convention press office. Requests for interviews with non-AFT speakers should be directed to those speakers' press offices. The convention will also be live streamed on AFT’s social media channels.