Press Releases

01/29/25

AFT’s Weingarten on NAEP results

01/28/25

AFT’s Weingarten on Trump Pausing All Federal Aid

01/25/25

AFT’s Weingarten on SCOTUS Religious Charter School Case

01/22/25

AFT’s Weingarten on President Trump’s Deportation Plans

01/20/25

AFT’s Weingarten on President Trump’s Inauguration Speech

01/17/25

AFT’s Weingarten on President Biden’s Announcement that the ERA Is Ratified

01/16/25

AFSCME, AFT, NEA and SEIU presidents endorse Ben Wikler as chair of the Democratic National Committee

01/13/25

AFT’s Weingarten on President Biden’s Approval of Student Debt Relief for 5 Million Borrowers

01/08/25

Historic Strike Alert: Oregon’s Largest Nurses’ and Other Healthcare Workers’ Strike and First Doctors’ Strike to Begin at 6 a.m. on Jan. 10

12/29/24

AFT’s Weingarten Mourns Death of Former President Jimmy Carter

12/21/24

AFT’s Weingarten on the Passage of the Social Security Fairness Act

12/17/24

Labor Movement Women Send Letter to Biden on ERA

12/16/24

AFT’s Weingarten and Teachers Unify’s Abbey Clements Respond to Madison School Shooting

12/02/24

AFT’s Weingarten on Judge’s Rejection of Wisconsin’s Act 10

12/02/24

AFT Responds to COVID Subcommittee’s Final Report

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.