Press Releases

11/15/2021
AFT Announces Third Round of Innovation Fund’s Return, Recover and Reimagine (RRR) Grants
11/09/2021
AFT’s Weingarten: Kaiser Has Betrayed Its Workers, and This ‘Strikesgiving,’ Its Greed Must Be Exposed
11/06/2021
AFT’s Weingarten Heralds Passage of Pathbreaking Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill
11/04/2021
AFT Lauds New Biden Administration Vaccination Policies
11/03/2021
AFT’s Randi Weingarten Condemns Senate Republicans’ War Against Voting Rights
10/28/2021
AFT President Randi Weingarten Applauds Deal on Build Back Better, Including Landmark Investments in Care Economy and Traditional Infrastructure
10/27/2021
AFT President Randi Weingarten and AFT Pennsylvania President Arthur Steinberg Stand with Scranton Educators and School Staff
10/26/2021
AFT President Weingarten Welcomes News of FDA Approval of Pfizer Vaccine for Children
10/26/2021
Union leaders applaud introduction of landmark legislation to make it easier for public service workers to join unions
10/22/2021
Study: Democrats Can Win by Emphasizing Working Class Issues
10/21/2021
AFT President Weingarten Welcomes Biden Plan for Child Vaccination Rollout
10/20/2021
AFT President Randi Weingarten on Senate Republicans’ Blow to Voting Rights
10/18/2021
AFT President Randi Weingarten Celebrates Life and Legacy of Colin Powell
10/16/2021
American Federation of Teachers Committee on Political Education Launches Six-Figure Ad Buy Supporting Terry McAuliffe for Virginia Governor
10/13/2021
US Department of Education Settles with AFT in Public Service Loan Forgiveness Suit
10/07/2021
AFT Relaunches Share My Lesson Platform with New Redesign
10/06/2021
AFT President Randi Weingarten Reiterates Calls for Action after Texas School Shooting
10/06/2021
America’s Educators, Nurses and Public Employees Stand with IATSE
10/06/2021
AFT President Randi Weingarten on the Department of Education’s Public Service Loan Forgiveness Overhaul
09/30/2021
AFT’s Weingarten Writes to House of Representatives Urging Passage of Infrastructure, Build Back Better Acts
09/27/2021
AFT Leaders Troubled by Haitian Refugee Crisis, Urge Humanitarian Action
09/24/2021
POLL: 90% of AFT members are vaccinated and Two Thirds support Vaccine Mandates
09/22/2021
AFT Announces $100,000 Investment in Faculty Effort to Help College Students in Need
09/20/2021
AFT Leaders Respond to Senate Parliamentarian Ruling on Immigration
09/09/2021
AFT President Randi Weingarten Welcomes Biden’s Six-Part COVID-19 Action Plan

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